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Differential reporting for small- and medium-sized entities:

a) is required for all companies less than a certain size.

b) omits accounting topics not relevant for SMEs, such as earnings per share, and interim and segment reporting.

c) has different rules for topics such as earnings per share, and interim and segment reporting.

d) requires significantly more disclosures, since more items are not recognized in the financial statements.

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Option (b)

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Meaning of Interim Reporting

Interim reporting is described as statutory compliance imposed on any publicly owned corporation or other similar entity for the purpose of compiling and presenting financial statements for a period less than a year's accounting period.

02

Explaining the differential reporting for small and medium-sized entities

Differential reporting refers to the idea that some businesses should be allowed to ignore some or all of the requirements of accounting standards when preparing their financial statements.

Some accounting topics, such as earnings per share, interim reporting, and segment reporting, are not required for small and medium-sized businesses. As a result, these can be omitted.

Therefore option (b) is correct.

03

Explaining the rest of the options

a) Exemption from reporting requirements for a new company class - limited-rate-guarantee corporation. The reporting criteria will be changed for the remaining enterprises bound by the guarantee.

c) The omission of topics not relevant to SMEs, such as earnings per share, interim financial reporting, and segment reporting, as well as easier options for accounting policy choices, such as no option to revalue property, equipment, or intangibles, simplicity of recognizing and measuring assets, liabilities, income, and expenses, fewer disclosures required, clear and easily translatable language, and revisions limited to once every three years, are all argued as reasons for the simplicity of IFRS for SMEs.

d) Differential reporting for small- and medium-sized entities does not require significantly more disclosures, since more items are not recognized in the financial statements.

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(Disclosure of Estimates) Nancy Tercek, the financial vice president, and Margaret Lilly, the controller, of Romine Manufacturing Company are reviewing the financial ratios of the company for the years 2017 and 2018. The financial vice president notes that the profit margin on sales ratio has increased from 6% to 12%, a hefty gain for the 2-year period. Tercek is in the process of issuing a media release that emphasizes the efficiency of Romine Manufacturing in controlling cost. Margaret Lilly knows that the difference in ratios is due primarily to an earlier company decision to reduce the estimates of warranty and bad debt expense for 2018. The controller, not sure of her supervisor’s motives, hesitates to suggest to Tercek that the company’s improvement is unrelated to efficiency in controlling cost. To complicate matters, the media release is scheduled in a few days.

Instructions

  1. Should Lilly, the controller, remain silent? Give reasons.

Keystone Corporation’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2017, were authorized for issue on March 10, 2018. The following events took place early in 2018.

  1. On January 10, 10,000 ordinary shares of \(5 par value were issued at \)66 per share.
  2. On March 1, Keystone determined after negotiations with the taxing authorities that income taxes payable for 2017 should be \(1,320,000. At December 31, 2017, income taxes payable were recorded at \)1,100,000.

Instructions

Discuss how the preceding subsequent events should be reflected in the 2017 financial statements.

The following statement is an excerpt from the FASB pronouncement related to interim reporting. Interim financial information is essential to provide investors and others with timely information as to the progress of the enterprise. The usefulness of such information rests on the relationship that it has to the annual results of operations. Accordingly, the Board has concluded that each interim period should be viewed primarily as an integral part of an annual period. In general, the results for each interim period should be based on the accounting principles and practices used by an enterprise in the preparation of its latest annual financial statements unless a change in an accounting practice or policy has been adopted in the current year. The Board has concluded, however, that certain accounting principles and practices followed for annual reporting purposes may require modification at interim reporting dates so that the reported results for the interim period may better relate to the results of operations for the annual period.

Instructions

The following six independent cases present how accounting facts might be reported on an individual company’s interim financial reports. For each of these cases, state whether the method proposed to be used for interim reporting would be acceptable under generally accepted accounting principles applicable to interim financial data. Support each answer with a brief explanation.

d) Gansner Company realized a large gain on the sale of investments at the beginning of the second quarter. The company wants to report one-third of the gain in each of the remaining quarters.

Picasso Company is a wholesale distributor of packaging equipment and supplies. The company’s sales have averaged about \(900,000 annually for the 3-year period 2015–2017. The firm’s total assets at the end of 2017 amounted to \)850,000.

The president of Picasso Company has asked the controller to prepare a report that summarizes the financial aspects of the company’s operations for the past 3 years. This report will be presented to the board of directors at their next meeting.

In addition to comparative financial statements, the controller has decided to present a number of relevant financial ratios which can assist in the identification and interpretation of trends. At the request of the controller, the accounting staff has calculated the following ratios for the 3-year period 2015–2017.

2015

2016

2017

Current ratio

1.80

1.89

1.96

Acid-test (quick) ratio

1.04

0.99

0.87

Accounts receivable turnover

8.75

7.71

6.42

Inventory turnover

4.91

4.32

3.42

Debt to assets ratio

51.0%

46.0%

41.0%

Long-term debt to assets ratio

31.0%

27.0%

24.0%

Sales to fixed assets (fixed asset turnover)

1.58

1.69

1.79

Sales as a percent of 2015 sales

1.00

1.03

1.07

Gross margin percentage

36.0%

35.1%

34.6%

Net income to sales

6.9%

7.0%

7.2%

Return on assets

7.7%

7.7%

7.8%

Return on common stockholders’ equity

13.6%

13.1%

12.7%

In preparation of the report, the controller has decided first to examine the financial ratios independent of any other data to determine if the ratios themselves reveal any significant trends over the 3-year period.

Instructions

a) The current ratio is increasing while the acid-test (quick) ratio is decreasing. Using the ratios provided, identify and explain the contributing factor(s) for this apparently divergent trend.

(Horizontal and Vertical Analysis) Presented below is the comparative balance sheet for Gilmour Company.

GILMOUR COMPANY

COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET

AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2018 AND 2017

December 31

2018

2017

Assets

Cash

\( 180,000

\) 275,000

Accounts receivable (net)

220,000

155,000

Short-term investments

270,000

150,000

Inventories

1,060,000

980,000

Prepaid expenses

25,000

25,000

Plant & equipment

2,585,000

1,950,000

Accumulated depreciation

(1,000,000)

(750,000)

\(3,340,000

(2,785,000)

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Accounts payable

\) 50,000

\( 75,000

Accrued expenses

170,000

200,000

Bonds payable

450,000

190,000

Common stock

2,100,000

1,770,000

Retained earnings

570,000

550,000

\)3,340,000

(2,785,000)

Instructions

(Round to two decimal places.)

  1. Prepare a comparative balance sheet of Gilmour Company showing the percent each item is of the total assets or total liabilities and stockholders’ equity.
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