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Chapter 2: Q2Q (page 61)
What is the primary objective of financial reporting?
The primary objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information, track cash flows and deal with liabilities.
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E2-4 (L03) (Qualitative Characteristics) The qualitative characteristics that make accounting information useful for decision-making purposes are as follows.
Relevance Neutrality Verifiability
Faithful representation Completeness Understandability
Predictive value Timeliness Comparability
Confirmatory value Materiality Free from error
InstructionsIdentify the appropriate qualitative characteristic(s) to be used given the information provided below.
(a) Qualitative characteristic being employed when companies in the same industry are using the same accounting principles.
(b) Quality of information that confirms users鈥� earlier expectations.
(c) Imperative for providing comparisons of a company from period to period.
(d) Ignores the economic consequences of a standard or rule.
(e) Requires a high degree of consensus among individuals on a given measurement.
(f) Predictive value is an ingredient of this fundamental quality of information.
(g) Four qualitative characteristics that are related to both relevance and faithful representation.
(h) An item is not recorded because its effect on income would not change a decision.
(i) Neutrality is an ingredient of this fundamental quality of accounting information.
(j) Two fundamental qualities that make accounting information useful for decision-making purposes.
(k) Issuance of interim reports is an example of what enhancing quality of relevance?
Identify which basic assumption of accounting is best described in each item below.
a)The economic activities of FedEx Corporation are divided into 12-month periods for the purpose of issuing annual reports.
b)Solectron Corporation, Inc. does not adjust amounts in its financial statements for the effects of inflation.
c)Walgreen Co. reports current and non-current classifications in its balance sheet.
d)The economic activities of General Electric and its subsidiaries are merged for accounting and reporting purposes.
Briefly describe the two fundamental qualities of useful accounting information.
Question: William Murray achieved one of his life-long dreams by opening his own business, The Caddie Shack Driving Range, on May 1, 2017. He invested \(20,000 of his own savings in the business. He paid \)6,000 cash to have a small building constructed to house the operations and spent \(800 on golf clubs, golf balls, and yardage signs. Murray leased 4 acres of land for \)1,000 per month. (He paid the first month鈥檚 rent in cash.) During the first month, advertising costs totaled \(750, of which \)150 was unpaid at the end of the month. Murray paid his three nephews \(400 for retrieving golf balls. He deposited in the company鈥檚 bank account all revenues from customers (\)4,700). On May 15, Murray withdrew \(800 in cash for personal use. On May 31, the company received a utility bill for \)100 but did not immediately pay it. On May 31, the balance in the company bank account was \(15,100.
Murray is feeling pretty good about results for the first month, but his estimate of profitability ranges from a loss of \)4,900 to a profit of \(1,650.
Accounting
Prepare a balance sheet at May 31, 2017. Murray appropriately records any depreciation expense on a quarterly basis. How could Murray have determined that the business operated at a profit of \)1,650? How could Murray conclude that the business operated at a loss of \(4,900?
Analysis
Assume Murray has asked you to become a partner in his business. Under the partnership agreement, after paying him \)10,000, you would share equally in all future profits. Which of the two income measures above would be more useful in deciding whether to become a partner? Explain.
Principles
What is income according to GAAP? What concepts do the differences in the three income measures for The Caddie Shack Driving Range illustrate?
Three expense recognition methods (associating cause and effect, systematic and rational allocation, and immediate recognition) were discussed in the text under the expense recognition principle. Indicate the basic nature of each of these expense recognition methods and give two examples of each.
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