IAS 1 - PREPARATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Flashcards
One of the objectives of IAS 1 is:
To prescribe the basis for presentation of specific purpose financial statements
True or False?
FALSE
It should be to prescribe the basis for presentation of general purpose financial statements
One of the objectives of IAS 1 is:
To ensure comparability both with the entity’s financial statements of previous periods and with the financial statements of other entities.
True or False?
True
One of the objectives of IAS 1 is:
To set out the overall requirements for the presentation of financial statements, guidelines for their structure and minimum requirements for their content.
True or False?
True
One of the objectives of IAS 1 is:
Standards for recognizing, measuring, and adapting specific transactions are addressed in other standards and interpretations.
True or False?
FALSE, Standards for recognizing, measuring, and disclosing specific transactions are addressed in other standards and interpretations.
Where does IAS 1 apply?
all general purpose financial statements
Are those intended to serve users who are not in a position to require financial reports tailored to their particular information needs.
General Purpose Financial Statements
What is the objective of GPFS?
to provide information about the financial position, financial performance, and cash flows of an entity that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions.
To meet objectives, financial statements provide information about an entity’s?
Assets
Liabilities
Equity
Income and expenses, including gains and losses contributions by and distributions to owners (in their capacity as owners)
Cash flows
This information, along with other information in the notes, assists users of financial statements in predicting the entity’s future cash flows and, in particular, their timing and certainty.
A complete set of financial statements includes?
- statement of financial position
- statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the period
- statement of changes in equity
- statement of cash flows
- notes to financial statements
- comparative information
An entity may use titles for the statements other than those stated above. All financial statements are required to be presented with equal prominence.
True or False?
True
When an entity applies an accounting policy retrospectively or makes a retrospective restatement of items in its financial statements, or when it reclassifies items in its financial statements, it must not present a statement of financial position (balance sheet) as at the beginning of the earliest comparative period.
True or False?
FALSE, it must also present a statement of financial position
Financial reviews by management, environmental reports and value added statements are reports presented outside of the financial statements but are inside the scope of IFRSs
True or False?
FALSE, it should be outside the scope of IFRSs
The financial statements must “present fairly” the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of an entity.
True or False?
True, regards with “Fair Presentation and Compliance with IFRS”
Fair presentation requires?
the faithful representation of the effects of transactions, other events, and conditions in accordance with the definitions and recognition criteria for assets, liabilities, income and expenses set out in the Framework.
IAS 1 requires an entity whose financial statements comply with IFRSs to make an explicit and unreserved statement of such compliance in the notes.
True or False?
True
Financial statements cannot be described as complying with IFRSs unless they comply with all the requirements of IFRSs (which includes International Financial Reporting Standards, International Accounting Standards, IFRIC Interpretations and SIC Interpretations).
True or False?
True
The application of IFRSs, with additional disclosure when necessary, is presumed to result in financial statements that achieve a fair presentation.
True or False?
True
Inappropriate accounting policies are not rectified either by disclosure of the accounting policies used or by notes or explanatory material.
True or False?
True
Financial statements are normally prepared assuming the entity is a going concern and will continue in operation for the foreseeable future.
True or False?
True, base on going concern principle
IAS 1 requires management to make an assessment of an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. If management has significant concerns about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern, the uncertainties must be disclosed. If management concludes that the entity is not a going concern, the financial statements should not be prepared on a going concern basis, in which case IAS 1 requires a series of disclosures
True or False?
True
IAS 1 requires that
an entity prepares its financial statements, except for cash flow information, using the accrual basis of accounting.
True or False?
True, base on principle of accrual basis
The presentation and classification of items in the financial statements
shall be retained from one period to the next unless a change is justified either by a change in circumstances or a requirement of a new IFRS
True or False?
True, base on Consistency of Presentation
When information is omitted, misstated or obscured and reasonably expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity. Therfore, the information is?
Material
Each material class of similar items must be presented separately in the financial statements. Dissimilar items may be aggregated only if they are individually immaterial.
True or False?
True
Information should not be obscured by aggregating or by providing immaterial information, materiality considerations apply to the all parts of the financial statements, and even when a standard requires a specific disclosure, materiality considerations do apply.
True or False?
True
Assets and liabilities, and income and expenses, may be offset unless not required or permitted by an IFRS
True or False?
FALSE, assets and liabilities, and income and expenses, may not be offset unless required or permitted by an IFRS
IAS 1 requires that comparative information be disclosed in respect of the previous period for all amounts reported in the financial statements, both on the face of the financial statements and in the notes, unless another Standard requires otherwise.
True or False?
True