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Failure to accrue a cost in 20x1 is an error which should be reported in 20x2 as…
As a prior period adjustment
Any error in the financial statements of a prior period discovered after the financial statements are issued, shall be reported as…
An error correction, by restating prior period financial statements
Change in depreciation is a change in accounting estimate shown on…
The income statement
With respect to the objective of general purpose financial reporting, what are US GAAP and IFRS differences?
With the issuance of SFAC 8, chapter 1, US GAAP and IFRS have
The same “objective of general purpose financial reporting”
How should the effect of a change in accounting principle that is inseparable from the effect of a change in accounting estimate be reported?
As component of income from continuing operations
Whenever a change in accounting principle is inseparable from a change in accounting estimate, the change should be considered as…
A change in an accounting estimate
Guaranteed residual value should be added to…
Minimum lease payments at present value
Capital lease accounting for a lesser involves determining…
Amounts and timing of all cash flows not considered Executory
Costs
Capital lease accounting for a lessee includes…2
1 minimum lease payments
2 residual values
Under a capital lease of a lesseeThe sum of minimum lease payments and guaranteed residual value is…
Capitalized as an asset
Under IFRS, what are 2 measurements allowed to estimate and report a liability for the cost of settling a lawsuit?
1 use range of amounts that may be lost in lawsuit and the best
Number in the range must be chosen to accrue
2 chosen amount must always be discounted to present value
When calculating units of production method of depreciation, what is the calculation in the first year
Depreciation expense =
Cost - Salvage value) x (units consumed/total units
The first balance sheet must recognize all assets and liabilities as required by IFRS and…
All assets and liabilities as required by IFRS
For available for sale securities, if a decline in value is not temporary, the cost basis of the individual security should be…
Written down to fair value and the amount of the write down
Is included in earnings (income statement)
A financial instrument that embodies an unconditional obligation or one other than an outstanding share that embodies a conditional obligation, that the issuer must or may settle by issuing a variable number of its equity shares must be classified as a liability if at inception, the monetary value of the obligation is based solely or predominantly on any one of the following 3 conditions…
1 fixed monetary amount known at inception
2 variations in something other than the FV of issuer’s equity shares
3 variation inversely related to changes in FV of issuer’s equity shares
Fixed monetary amount known at inception, example
Payable settleable with variable number of issuer’s equity shares
Variations in something other than the fair value of the issuer’s equity shares, example
Financial instrument indexed to S&P 500 and settleable with a
Variable number of issuer’s equity shares
Variations inversely related to changes in fair value of the issuer’s equity shares, example
Written put option that could be net share settled
During periods of inflation, a perpetual inventory system would result in the same dollar amount of ending inventory as periodic inventory system under which inventory valuation method?
Same under FIFO
Not same under LIFO
The lessor shall measure the gross investment in a direct financial lease initially as the sum of the following 2 amounts
1 minimum lease payments
2 Unguaranteed residual value accruing to benefit of lessor
In the company’s year end balance sheet, what amount of liability for compensated absences is required for reporting?
Payment for vacation days = $10,000
Unadjusted liability balance = $21,000
$10,000 only
Research and development costs are defined as the…
Planned research for new knowledge and the translation of
research findings into a design for a new product or process
Development of software for internal use is…
Excluded from research and development