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1 Identify the major financial statements and other means of financial reporting.2 Explain how accounting assists in the efficient use of scarce resources.3 Identify the objective of financial reporting.4 Explain the need for accounting standards.5 Identify the major policy-setting bodies and their role in the standard...
As our opening story indicates, the U.S. system of financial reporting has long been the most robust and transparent in the world. However, to ensure that it continues to provide the most relevant and reliable financial information to users, a number of financial reporting issues must be resolved. These issues include ...
The financial informationa company provides to help users with capitalallocation decisions aboutthe company.Investors and creditorsuse financial reports tomake their capitalallocation decisions.Users(present and potential)The process ofdetermining how and atwhat cost money isallocated among competing interests.Financia...
6 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsHershey’s ability to generate net cash inflow and to understand management’s ability to protect and enhance the assets of the company, which will be used to generate future net cash inflows. As a result, the primary user groups are not management, regulators, or ...
5 LEARNING OBJECTIVEIdentify the major policy-setting bodies and their role in the standard-setting process.Underlying ConceptsPreparing fi nancial statements prepared according to accepted accounting standards contributes to the comparability of accounting information. 8 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting ...
Parties Involved in Standard-Setting 9accounting for business combinations and intangible assets. It is also high-lighted by concerns over the accounting for off-balance-sheet special-purpose entities, highlighted in the failure of Enron and, more recently, the subprime crises that led to the failure of IndyMac Bank.En...
10 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsChanging Role of the AICPAWhen the FASB replaced the Accounting Principles Board, the AICPA established the Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) as the committee authorized to speak for the AICPA in the area of financial accounting and reporting. It ...
5Other advisory groups, such as the Investors Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC), the Not-for-Profit Advisor Committee (NAC), the Valuation Resource Group (VRG), and the recently established Private Company Financial Reporting Committee (PCFRC), share their views and experience with the Board on matters related to pro...
Board evaluates research andpublic response and issuesexposure draft.Board evaluates responses andchanges exposure draft, if necessary.Final standard issued.Public hearing on proposed standard.T opic AT opic BT opic Cxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
FASB Codifi cationHistorically, the documents that comprised GAAP varied in format, completeness, and structure. In some cases, these documents were inconsistent and difficult to interpret. As a result, financial statement preparers sometimes were not sure whether they had the right GAAP. Determining what was authoritat...
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 15is cited, using Receivables as the example. The purpose of the search shown below is to determine GAAP for accounting for loans and trade receivables not held for sale subsequent to initial measurement.Topic Go to FASB ASC 310 to access the Receivables topic.Subtopics Go to FA...
8FASB board members acknowledged that they undertook many of the Board’s projects, such as “Accounting for Contingencies,” “Accounting for Pensions,” “Statement of Cash Flows,” and “Accounting for Derivatives,” due to political pressure.Generally Accepted Accounting PrinciplesFASBFinancial community(analysts, bankers, ...
18 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting Standardsfor financial reporting. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act introduces sweeping changes to the institutional structure of the accounting profession. The following are some of the key provisions of the legislation.• E s t a b l i s h e s a n o v e r s i g h t ...
20 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsChanges in these directions will enhance the relevance of financial reporting and pro-vide useful information to financial statement readers.International Accounting StandardsFormer Secretary of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers, has indicated that the single most ...
CAN YOU DO THAT?What do the numbers mean?One of the more diffi cult issues related to convergence and international accounting standards is that countries have different cultures and customs. For example, the former chair of the IASB explained it this way regarding Europe:“In the U.K. everything is permitted unless it...
FASB Codifi cation 236Explain the meaning of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the role of the Codification for GAAP. Generally accepted account-ing principles (GAAP) are those principles that have substantial authoritative support, such as FASB standards, interpretations, and Staff Positions, APB Opi...
CA1-1 (FASB and Standard-Setting) Presented below are four statements which you are to identify as true or false. If false, explain why the statement is false. 1. GAAP is the term used to indicate the whole body of FASB authoritative literature. 2. Any company claiming compliance with GAAP must comply with most standar...
26 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsInstructions(a) Differentiate between financial accounting and managerial accounting.(b) One part of financial accounting involves the preparation of financial statements. What are the financial statements most frequently provided?(c) What is the difference betw...
Instructions(a) T h e C o m m i t t e e o n A c c o u n t i n g P r o c e d u r e o f t h e A I C P A w a s e s t a b l i s h e d i n t h e m i d - t o l a t e 1 9 3 0 s and functioned until 1959, at which time the Accounting Principles Board came into existence. In 1973, the Financial Accounting Standa...
28 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsInstructions(a) Explain from where the Securities and Exchange Commission receives its authority.(b) D e s c r i b e t h e o f f i c i a l r o l e o f t h e S e c u r i t i e s a n d E x c h a n g e C o m m i s s i o n i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t...
(c) What would you do if you were Troy Normand?(d) Who are the major stakeholders in this case?CA1-16 (Economic Consequences) Presented below are comments made in the financial press.InstructionsPrepare responses to the requirements in each item.(a) Rep. John Dingell, at one time the ranking Democrat on the House Comme...
30 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards(c) What economic consequences arguments are used in this letter?(d) What do you believe is the main point of the letter?(e) Why do you believe a copy of this letter was sent by the business community to influential members of the U.S. Congress?FINANCIAL REPORTI...
INSIGHTS10 LEARNING OBJECTIVECompare the procedures related to financial accounting and accounting standards under GAAP and IFRS. 32 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards• The SEC allows foreign companies that trade shares in U.S. markets to fi le their IFRS fi nancial statements without reconcilia...
Types of PronouncementsThe IASB issues three major types of pronouncements: 1. International Financial Reporting Standards. 2. Framework for Financial Reporting. 3. International Financial Reporting Interpretations.International Financial Reporting Standards. Financial accounting standards issued by the IASB are referr...
36 Chapter 1 Financial Accounting and Accounting StandardsInternational Accounting ConvergenceThe SEC recognizes that the establishment of a single, widely accepted set of high-quality accounting standards benefits both global capital markets and U.S. investors. U.S. investors will make better-informed investment decis...
Transition Period. In the transition period, the FASB and SEC will execute a transition plan for evaluating IFRS for incorporation into GAAP . The transition plan groups IFRS into one of three categories, as summarized in Illustration IFRS1-4. As indicated, in the transition period, the FASB will continue to work with ...
IFRS1-1 Who are the two key international players in the development of international accounting standards? Explain their role.IFRS1-2 What might explain the fact that different accounting standard-setters have developed account-ing standards that are sometimes quite different in nature?IFRS1-3 What is the benefit of a...
How would you answer the following questions? 1. Should Phil N. Tropic recognize his lottery ticket as an asset in his financial statements? 2. Assuming that Phil N. Tropic recognizes the lottery ticket as an asset, at what amount should it be reported? Some possible answers are $150, $100, and $90.Conceptual Framewor...
42 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial ReportingCONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKA conceptual framework establishes the concepts that underlie financial reporting. A conceptual framework is a coherent system of concepts that flow from an objective. The objective identifies the purpose of financial reporting. The other conc...
Development of a Conceptual FrameworkOver the years, numerous organizations developed and published their own conceptual frameworks, but no single framework was universally accepted and relied on in practice. In 1976, the FASB began to develop a conceptual framework that would be a basis for setting accounting rules an...
The first level identifies the objective of financial reporting—that is, the purpose of financial reporting. The second level provides the qualitative characteristics that make accounting information useful and the elements of financial statements (assets, liabili-ties, and so on). The third level identifies the recogn...
5 “Chapter 1, The Objective of General Purpose Financial Reporting,” Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 8 (Norwalk, Conn.: FASB, September 2010), par. OB2.6 “Chapter 3, Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information,” Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 8 (Norwalk, Conn.: FASB, Septe...
48 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reportingconsensus analysts’ earnings numbers, preserve a positive earnings trend, convert a loss to a profit or vice versa, increase management compensation, or hide an illegal transac-tion like a bribe. In other words, companies must consider both quantitative and quali...
8Sometimes, in practice, it has been acceptable to invoke prudence or conservatism as a justifica-tion for an accounting treatment under conditions of uncertainty. Prudence or conservatism means when in doubt, choose the solution that will be least likely to overstate assets or income and/or understate liabilities or e...
9Surveys indicate that users highly value consistency. They note that a change tends to destroy the comparability of data before and after the change. Some companies assist users to under-stand the pre- and post-change data. Generally, however, users say they lose the ability to analyze over time. GAAP guidelines (disc...
11“Chapter 3, Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information,” Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 8 (Norwalk, Conn.: FASB, September 2010), paras. QC30–QC31. Third Level: Recognition and Measurement Concepts 53ASSETS. Probable future economic benefi ts obtained or controlled by a particular en...
13Recently, the FASB has proposed to link the definition of an entity to its financial reporting objective. That is, a reporting entity is described as a circumscribed area of business activity of interest to present and potential equity investors, lenders, and other capital providers. See IASB/FASB, “The Reporting Ent...
56 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reportingthey can evaluate and compare firms, and take appropriate actions. Therefore, compa-nies must report information periodically.The periodicity (or time period) assumption implies that a company can divide its economic activities into artificial time periods. These...
58 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial ReportingIt is easy to arrive at fair values when markets are liquid with many traders, but fair value answers are not readily available in other situations. For example, how do you value the mortgage assets of a subprime lender such as New Century given that the market f...
Third Level: Recognition and Measurement Concepts 59is implemented in accordance with the definition of expense (outflows or other using up of assets or incurring of liabilities).18 Step 5: Recognize revenue wheneach performance obligation is satisfied.Boeing recognizes revenue of $100 million for thesale of the airpla...
Third Level: Recognition and Measurement Concepts 61and gas companies typically provide information on proven reserves as well as the related discounted cash flows.Supplementary information may also include management’s explanation of the financial information and its discussion of the significance of that information....
First level: The "why"—purpose of accountingSecond level: Bridgebetween levels 1 and 3Third level:The "how"—implementationELEMENTSQUALITATIVECHARACTERISTICS1. Fundamental qualities A. Relevance (1) Predictive value (2) Confirmatory value (3) Materiality B. Faithful representation (1)...
23For example, as part of its project on “Share-Based Payment” [3], the Board conducted a field study and surveyed commercial software providers to collect information on the costs of measuring the fair values of share-based compensation arrangements.You will want to read theIFRS INSIGHTS on pages 78–81 for discussion ...
Solution 1. From the facts, it is difficult to determine whether to agree or disagree. Consistency, of course, is violated in this situation although its violation may not be material. Furthermore, the change of ac-counting policies regarding the treatment of small tools cannot be judged good or bad but would depend on...
1. What is a conceptual framework? Why is a conceptual framework necessary in financial accounting? 2. What is the primary objective of financial reporting? 3. What is meant by the term “qualitative characteristics of accounting information”? 4. Briefly describe the two fundamental qualities of useful accounting infor...
Brief Exercises 67 25. Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 5 identifies four characteristics that an item must have before it is rec-ognized in the financial statements. What are these four characteristics? 26. Briefly describe the types of information concerning financial position, income, and cash flows th...
Exercises 69BE2-11 What accounting assumption, principle, or constraint would Target Corporation use in each of the situations below?(a) Target was involved in litigation over the last year. This litigation is disclosed in the financial statements.(b) Target allocates the cost of its depreciable assets over the life it...
Exercises 71(j) Increases assets during a period through sale of product.(k) Decreases assets during the period by purchasing the company’s own stock.(l) Includes all changes in equity during the period, except those resulting from investments by owners and distributions to owners.E2-6 (Assumptions, Principles, and Con...
Concepts for Analysis 73(d) During the year, the company sold certain equipment for $285,000, recognizing a gain of $69,000. Because the controller believed that new equipment would be needed in the near future, she decided to defer the gain and amortize it over the life of any new equipment purchased.(e) An order for ...
Concepts for Analysis 75(b) As generally presented in financial statements, the following items or procedures have been criticized as improperly recognizing costs. Briefly discuss each item from the viewpoint of matching costs with revenues and suggest corrective or alternative means of presenting the financial informa...
76 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting 2. Management should not be required to report information that would significantly harm the com-pany’s competitive position. 3. Management should not be required to provide forecasted financial statements. Rather, manage-ment should provide information that hel...
INSIGHTS78 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial ReportingInstructionsGo to http://www.fasb.org and access the FASB Concepts Statements and respond to the following items. (Provide paragraph citations.) When you have accessed the documents, you can use the search tool in your Internet browser.(a) How is “materia...
80 Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial ReportingON THE HORIZONThe IASB and the FASB face a difficult task in attempting to update, modify, and complete a converged conceptual framework. There are many difficult issues. For example: How do we trade off characteristics such as highly relevant information that is...
International Financial Reporting ProblemMarks and Spencer plcIFRS2-7 T h e f i n a n c i a l s t a t e m e n t s o f Marks and Spencer plc (M&S) are available at the book’s com-panion website or can be accessed at http://annualreport.marksandspencer.com/_assets/downloads/Marks-and-Spencer-Annual-report-and-financi...
83What happens when companies fail to keep an accurate record of their business transactions? Consider Adecco, the largest international employment services company, which confirmed existence of weakness in its internal controls systems and Adecco staffing operations in certain countries. Manipulation involved such ma...
1A recent survey indicated nearly one in three companies view the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) to outweigh its costs. Approximately half of the companies believe the costs exceed the benefits of SOX to some degree. Management view their companies generally as benefiting from SOX but overall have a slightly negative...
86 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemStates adopted the custom, now the rule, of having debits on the left side of an account and credits on the right side, similar to the custom of driving on the right-hand side of the road. This rule applies to all accounts.The equality of debits and credits provides the bas...
Illustration 3-5 summarizes and relates the transactions affecting owners’ equity to the nominal (temporary) and real (permanent) classifications and to the types of busi-ness ownership.Stockholders' EquityBalance Sheet Statement of Retained EarningsCommon Stock(investments by stockholders)Retained Earnings(net income ...
The Accounting Cycle 91events involve interaction between an entity and its environment, such as a transaction with another entity, a change in the price of a good or service that an entity buys or sells, a flood or earthquake, or an improvement in technology by a competitor. (2) Internal events occur within an entity,...
ILLUSTRATION 3-8Posting a Journal Entry2014 Sept.1Cash Common Stock (Issued shares of stock for cash)DateAccount Titles and ExplanationGENERAL JOURNALRef. Debit CreditJ1 2014 Sept.1DateExplanationRef. Debit Credit BalanceNo.101CashGENERAL LEDGER Key: Post to debit account–date, journal page number, and amount.En...
4. October 3: Pioneer Advertising pays $9,000 offi ce rent, in cash, for October.JournalEntryPosting Oct.1 100,000 2 12,000Cash 101Rent Expense 729Oct. 3 Rent Expense Cash (Paid October rent)7291019,0009,000Oct. 3 9,000 Oct. 3 9,000ILLUSTRATION 3-12Payment of Monthly Rent 5. October 4: Pioneer Advertisin...
A trial balance does not prove that a company recorded all transactions or that the ledger is correct. Numerous errors may exist even though the trial balance columns agree. For example, the trial balance may balance even when a company (1) fails to jour-nalize a transaction, (2) omits posting a correct journal entry, ...
98 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemIf a company does not make an adjustment for these deferrals, the asset and liability are overstated, and the related expense and revenue are understated. For example, in Pioneer’s trial balance (Illustration 3-19), the balance in the asset Supplies shows only supplies purc...
The asset Prepaid Insurance shows a balance of $5,500, which represents the unex-pired cost for the remaining 11 months of coverage. At the same time, the balance in Insurance Expense equals the insurance cost that expired in October. Without an ad-justing entry, October expenses are understated by $500 and net income ...
The balance in the Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment account will increase $400 each month. Therefore, after recording and posting the adjusting entry at November 30, the balance will be $800.Statement presentation. Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment is a contra asset account. A contra asset account offsets an asset a...
Some service has beenperformed; some revenueis recordedCash is received in advance;liability is recordedOct. 2 Oct. 31Unearned Revenues The Accounting Cycle 103 related asset account) or the expense account (and the related liability account) are understated. Thus, the adjusting entry for accruals will increase both a ...
The Accounting Cycle 105to adjustment, both liabilities and expenses are understated. Therefore, the adjusting entry for accrued expenses results in a debit (increase) to an expense account and a credit (increase) to a liability account.Accrued interest. Pioneer Advertising signed a three-month note payable in the amou...
The Accounting Cycle 107After this adjustment, the balance in Salaries and Wages Expense of $46,000 (23 days 3 $2,000) is the actual salaries and wages expense for October. The balance in Salaries and Wages Payable of $6,000 is the amount of the liability for salaries and wages owed as of October 31. Without the $6,000...
Oct. 31 Adj. 1,600Oct. 31 Bal. 1,600Allowance for Doubtful AccountsOct. 31 Adj. 1,600Oct. 31 Bal. 1,600Bad Debt ExpenseOct. 2 72,000 31 2,000Oct. 31 Bal. 74,000Accounts ReceivableDebits increase expenses: debit Bad Debt Expense $1,600. Credits increase contra assets: cre...
Liabilities Notes payable Accounts payable Unearned service revenue Salaries and wages payable Interest payable Total liabilitiesStockholders’ equity Common stock Retained earnings Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$ 80,00072,40010,0005,50049,600$217,500Liabilities and ...
5,000RetainedEarnings033,000 Bal. 28,000(3)320(4)106,000ServiceRevenue106,000100,0004,0002,000106,000400(1) 5,000Dividends5,000(4)33273,00033,000IncomeSummary106,000106,000106,000(1)350(2)(3) 221 Close Revenues to Income Summary.Close Expenses to Income Summary.Close Income Summary to Retained Earnings.Close Div...
Financial Statements for a Merchandising Company 115ILLUSTRATION 3-39Income Statement for a Merchandising CompanyUPTOWN CABINET CORP.INCOME STATEMENTFOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014Net sales $400,000Cost of goods sold 316,000Gross profit on sales 84,000Selling expenses Salaries and wages expense (sales) $20...
DECEMBER 31, 2014Interest Revenue 800Sales Revenue 400,000 Income Summary 400,800 (To close revenues to Income Summary)Income Summary 388,600 Cost of Goods Sold 316,000 Salaries and Wages Expense (sales) 20,000 Advertising Expense 10,200 Salaries and Wages Expense (general) 19,000 Depreciation Expense 6,...
LEARNING OBJECTIVE 9Differentiate the cash basis of accounting from the accrual basis of accounting.APPENDIX 3ACASH-BASIS ACCOUNTING VERSUSACCRUAL-BASIS ACCOUNTINGMost companies use accrual-basis accounting: They recognize revenue when the performance obligation is satisfied and expenses in the period incurred, withou...
3Companies in the following situations might use a cash or modified cash basis.(1) A company that is primarily interested in cash flows (for example, a group of physicians that distributes cash-basis earnings for salaries and bonuses).(2) A company that has a limited number of financial statement users (small, closely ...
Cash paid for operating expenses $170,0001 Beginning prepaid expense $ 1,8002 Ending prepaid expense (2,700)2 Beginning accrued liabilities (2,000)1 Ending accrued liabilities 5,500 2,600Operating expenses (accrual) $172,600ILLUSTRATION 3A-11Conversion of Cash Paid to Operating ExpensesTherefore, for Dr. Windsor...
LEARNING OBJECTIVE 10Identify adjusting entries that may be reversed.APPENDIX 3BUSING REVERSING ENTRIESUse of reversing entries simplifies the recording of transactions in the next accounting period. The use of reversing entries, however, does not change the amounts reported in the financial statements for the previou...
in revenue or expense accounts. The revenue and expense accounts may not require adjusting, and the company thus systematically closes them to Income Summary.Using the nominal accounts adds consistency to the accounting system. It also makes the recording more efficient, particularly when a large number of such transac...
128 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemFormulas Data Review ViewPage LayoutInsertAP18fxEF GBC DHIJ KUptown Cabinet Corp.xlsUptown Cabinet Corp.xlsHome12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243Trial BalanceAdjustmentsAdjustedTrial BalanceIncomeStatementBalance SheetDr. Cr.Dr. C...
11Prepare a 10-column worksheet. The 10-column worksheet provides col-umns for the first trial balance, adjustments, adjusted trial balance, income statement, and balance sheet. The worksheet does not replace the financial statements. Instead, it is an informal device for accumulating and sorting information needed for...
Brief Exercises 133Cost of mower and Date purchased 7/1/14 accessories $4,000 Monthly salary ofEstimated useful life 5 yrs groundskeeper $1,100 Salvage value $0 Estimated annual fuel cost $150 Compute the amount of depreciation expense (related to the mower and accessories) that should be reported on Boston’s De...
E3-1 (Transaction Analysis—Service Company) Beverly Crusher is a licensed CPA. During the first month of operations of her business (a sole proprietorship), the following events and transactions occurred.April 2 Invested $32,000 cash and equipment valued at $14,000 in the business. 2 Hired a secretary-receptionist at a...
An analysis of the accounts shows the following. 1. The equipment depreciates $250 per month. 2. One-third of the unearned rent was recognized as revenue during the quarter. 3. Interest of $500 is accrued on the notes payable. 4. Supplies on hand total $850. 5. Insurance expires at the rate of $300 per month.WATTEAU CO...
138 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemE3-9 (Adjusting Entries) Selected accounts of Urdu Company are shown below.5 InstructionsFrom an analysis of the T-accounts, reconstruct (a) the October transaction entries, and (b) the adjusting journal entries that were made on October 31, 2014. Prepare explanations for ...
InstructionsCompute the missing amounts.E3-16 (Closing Entries for a Corporation) Presented below are selected account balances for Homer Winslow Co. as of December 31, 2014.7Inventory 12/31/14 $ 60,000 Cost of Goods Sold $225,700Common Stock 75,000 Selling Expenses 16,000Retained Earnings 45,000 Administrative Expense...
2013 2014 2015Cash receipts from sales: On 2013 sales $295,000 $160,000 $ 30,000 On 2014 sales –0– 355,000 90,000 On 2015 sales 408,000Cash payments for expenses: On 2013 expenses 185,000 67,000 25,000 On 2014 expenses 40,000a 160,000 55,000 On 2015 expenses 45,000b 218,000aPrepayments of 2014 expenses.bPrep...
144 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemInstructions(a) Enter the transactions shown above in appropriate general ledger accounts (use T-accounts). Use the following ledger accounts: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Supplies, Equipment, Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment, Accounts Payable, Owner’s Capital, Service Rev...
146 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemInstructions(a) Journalize the adjusting entries.(b) Prepare an adjusted trial balance.(c) Prepare a multiple-step income statement and retained earnings statement for the year and a classi-fied balance sheet as of November 30, 2014.(d) Journalize the closing entries.(e) P...
Instructions(a) Journalize the annual adjusting entries that were made.(b) Prepare an income statement and a retained earnings statement for the year ended December 31, and a classified balance sheet at December 31.(c) Identify which accounts should be closed on December 31.(d) If the note has been outstanding 10 month...
150 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information System 3. Sales, repair, and office employees earn $12,600 in salaries and wages during January, of which $3,000 was still payable at the end of January. 4. Sells 30 personal computers at $2,550 each, 4 graphics computers for $3,600 each, and 15 printers for $500 each; $75,000 i...
152 Chapter 3 The Accounting Information SystemSelected data from Kellogg Company’s 2011 annual report follows (dollar amounts in millions). 2011 2010 2009Sales $13,198.00 $12,397.00 $12,575.00Gross profit % 41.28 42.66 42.87Operating profit 1,976.00 1,990.00 2,001.00Net cash flow less capital expenditures 1,001.00 53...
As indicated in this chapter, companies must have an effective accounting system. In the wake of accounting scandals at U.S. companies like Sunbeam, Rite-Aid, Xerox, and WorldCom, U.S. lawmakers demanded higher assurance on the quality of accounting reports. Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), co...
IFRS Insights 155First-Time Adoption of IFRSAs discussed in Chapter 1, IFRS is growing in acceptance around the world. For exam-ple, recent statistics indicate 40 percent of the Global Fortune 500 companies use IFRS. And the chair of the IASB predicts that IFRS adoption will grow from its current level of over 115 coun...
1. Which statement is correct regarding IFRS?(a) IFRS reverses the rules of debits and credits, that is, debits are on the right and credits are on the left.(b) IFRS uses the same process for recording transactions as GAAP .(c) The chart of accounts under IFRS is different because revenues follow assets.(d) None of th...
1 Understand the uses and limitations of an income statement.2 Describe the content and format of the income statement.3 Prepare an income statement.4 Explain how to report various income items.5 Identify where to report earnings per share information.6 Understand the reporting of accounting changes and errors.7 Prepar...
As indicated in the opening story, companies are attempting to provide income statement information they believe is useful for decision-making. Investors need complete and comparable infor-mation on income and its components to assess company profitability correctly. In this chapter, we examine the many different types...
1We will use the term income statement except in situations where a company reports other comprehensive income (discussed later in the chapter). In that case, we will use the term statement of comprehensive income.FordToyotaRevenues– Expenses$ ProfitsRevenues– Expenses$ Profits<Which company did betterlast year? IBMInc...
FORMAT OF THE INCOME STATEMENTElements of the Income StatementNet income results from revenue, expense, gain, and loss transactions. The income statement summarizes these transactions. This method of income measurement, the transaction approach, focuses on the income-related activities that have Such earnings managemen...
Revenues take many forms, such as sales, fees, interest, dividends, and rents. Ex-penses also take many forms, such as cost of goods sold, depreciation, interest, rent, salaries and wages, and taxes. Gains and losses also are of many types, resulting from the sale of investments or plant assets, settlement of liabiliti...
7Although the content of the operating section is always the same, the organization of the material can differ. The breakdown above uses a natural expense classification. Manufacturing concerns and merchandising companies in the wholesale trade commonly use this. Another classification of operating expenses, recommende...