Financial Statements Flashcards

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Where is Sales and Revenue located on the Income Statement

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Top of the line

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Where do you find Profits Earnings and Income on the Income Statement?

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Bottom Line

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3
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What are profit earnings and income?

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It is what is left over after all the costs and expenses spent in generating that revenue are subtracted

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Costs

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Money (mostly for materials and labor spent making a product)

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Expenses

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Money spent to develop, sell, account and manage the entire making and selling process

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6
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Sales is the equivalent to_________.

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Revenue

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7
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Profit, earnings and income are________.

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the same

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8
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Revenue and income are _________.

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Different

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9
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Costs are ______than expenses.

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Different

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10
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Expenses are ________ from expenditures.

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Different

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11
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Sales are _________ from orders, but same as __________.

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Different, Shipments

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12
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Profits are _______from cash.

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Different

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13
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Solvency is ________from profitability.

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Different

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Costs and Expenses become ________, when money is sent to vendors to pay for them.

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Expenditures

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15
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Orders

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Signify a request for future delivery of products

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16
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When is a sale made?

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when shipped

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17
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Solvency

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Having enough money in the bank to pay bills

18
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Profitability

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When sales are greater than costs and expenses

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Insolvent

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When making money, but still don’t have enough money to pay bills.

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Accounting Entity

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  • Business Unit
  • A business entity separate from its owners
  • A fictional person called a company for which books are written
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Going Concern

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Assumption that the life of a business entity is infinitely long.
If concerned about going bankrupt, must issue a qualified opinion.

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Measurement

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Quantified resources and obligations upon which there is agreed upon value.
Accounting deals with things that can be measured.

23
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Assets - Liabilities =

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Owner’s Equity

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Units of Measure

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U.S dollars are reported in Financial Statements

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Historical Cost
What a company owns and with it owes are recorded at their original historic cost with no adjustment for inflation.
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Materiality
- Relative importance of different financial information. - All transaction must be reported if they would materially affect the financial condition of the company. - Making a straightforward judgement call.
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Estimates and Judgements | When is it okay to guess?
1) When it is the best you can do 2) When the expected error would not matter much anyway The same method should be used for each period.
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Consistency
Each individual enterprise must choose a single method of reporting, use consistently over time. No switching.
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Conservatism
Downward measurement bias, prefer to underestimate than to overevaluation
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Periodicity
Fiscal periods
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Substance over form
Accountants report the economic substance of a transaction rather than just its form.
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Accrual Basis of Presentation
Matching a presentation with the revenue received in selling product and the costs to are the specific product sold.
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Keys to Accrual Accounting
1) when you report a sale on the Fin Statement 2) matching and then reporting the approx costs of products sold 3) using a systematic and rational method of allocating all the other costs during a period.
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Revenue Recognition
Sales are recorded when all necessary activities to provide the good or service have been completed, regardless of when cash changes hands. Ex. Revenue recorded when products has shipped.
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Matching Principle
Costs associated with making products (costs of goods sold) are recorded at the same time the matching revenue is recorded.
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Allocation
Costs not associated with a product must be allocated to fiscal periods in a reasonable fashion.
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Financial Accounting Standards Board
Lays out GAAP conventions, rules, and procedures. Mission: To establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for guidance and education of the public, issues,auditors and users of financial information.
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Series of rules and procedures for preparing and reporting financial statments
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Securities Exchange Commission
Designates FASB as the organization responsible for setting standards
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Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Involved in developing interpreting and applying GAAP when auditing companies.