Intro Flashcards
quality characteristic
- relevance: Predictive value, Confirming value
- Faithful representation: Free from error,neutrality, completeness
Enhancing qualitative characteristic CUT-V
- comparability
- understandability
- timeliness
- verifiability
Measure an item at fair value. 3 approach
- Market approach:using information generated by market transaction
- Income approach:analyzing future amount in the form of revenue, cost saving, earning
- Cost approach:measuring the cost that would be incurred to replace
Fair value
the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability
impairment loss, 2 steps
-determine whether an investment is impaired
(FV is less than its cost)
-evaluate whether an impairment is other than temporary
input for fair value , 3 levels
1-most reliable, involve the use of observable data from actual market
2-involve the use of observable data from actual market, market not active
3-unobservable data, based on management’s judgement
accrued accounting
revenue/gain are recognize when
- earned:earning process is complete
- realizable:collect cash or. a claim to cash
revenue recognition
- a binding arrangement exist
- service rendered or delivery has occurred
- fixed or determine price exist
- collection is reasonably assured
Balance sheet
-statement of position, report the effect of transactions at a point in time. Consists of assets, liabilities, and stockholder equity
Available for sale securities,AVF
- part of OCI in stockholder equity
- current /non current
- record at cost, carried at FMV
- unrealized gain/loss appear on B/S OCI
- realize in I/S
GAAP income statement
ON-TIDe-N-OC
O-operating income N-non-operating T-tax I-income from continue operation De-discontinue operation N-net income O-OCI C-comprehensive income
investment securities
0-20. cost method
20-50 equity
50+. consolidation
equity method
- as the investee earns money, its increase investor’s books based on the % owns
- dividend received are reduction of investment
cost method
- no significant influence
- market value exist, use market
- no market, use cost method
equity to cost
prospective, use the cost method going forward