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U.S. GAAP
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1. For lessee - at least one of four met: (1) ownership transfer (2) written BPO (3) FV of leased property at least 90% of lease payments (4) lease term at least 75% of asset's life. Lessor: sales or direct financing if one of above criteria met and : (
Nonmonetary Exchanges
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Pension Plan Liability
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
2. Components of net periodic pension cost must be aggregated and presented as one amount on the income statement.
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Bond Issue Costs
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Reporting of Pension Cost
3. The subsequent event evaluation period extends through the date that the financial statements are issued (public companies) or the date that the financial statements are available to be issued (all other entities). Subsequent events are classified as
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Subsequent Events
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
4. Revenue recognized when realized or realizable and earned. Four criteria must be met for each element of a contract before revenue can be recognized: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists - delivery has occurred or services have been rendered
Revenue Recognition
Development Costs (R&D)
Goodwill Impairment
Subsequent Events
5. Entities are required to disclose concentrations of credit risk. Market risk disclosures are optional.
Pension Plan Liability
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Variable Interest Entity
6. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.
Investment Property
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Related Party Transactions
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
7. No impracticality exception for error corrections.
Error Correction
Reporting of Remeasurements
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Foreign Currency Translation
8. Remeasurement method must be used when a foreign subsidiary is operating in a highly inflationary environment.
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Extraordinary Items
Foreign Currency Translation
Accounting Changes
9. Recorded as an asset and amortized using the straight-line method.
Bond Issue Costs
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Intangible Assets
Lease Classification
10. Lessees--operating or capital leases. Lessors--operating - sales-type - or direct financing leases.
Lease Classification
Notes to the Financial Statements
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Investment Property
11. May be presented as a primary financial statement or in the notes of the financial statement.
12. Should be classified as current or non-current based on the classification of the related asset or liability. If no asset/liability - timing of the reversal is used. All assets/liabilities must be netted (one net current and one net non-current).
Marketable Securities - Classification
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
13. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment
Notes to the Financial Statements
Fixed Asset Valuation
Contingent Liability
Pension Plan Liability
14. Single - two - or in statement of changes in owner's equity. Presentation of changes in owner's equity is phasing out completely by 12/15/2012.
Reporting of Pension Cost
Construction Contracts
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Error Correction
15. Effective interest method is required - unless the straight-line method is not materially different from the effective interest method. Amortization is done over the contractual life of the bond.
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Conceptual Framework
Segment Reporting
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
16. Characterized as having commercial substance and lacking commercial substance. Commercial substance (accounted for at fair value and all gains are recognized). Lacking commercial substance (gains are only recognized when boot is received). Losses are
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Nonmonetary Exchanges
Discontinued Operations
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
17. Comparative financial statements not required. SEC requires comparative financial statements (2 B/S - 3 other). Cumulative effect is an adjustment to beginning retained earnings to the earliest prior period presented.
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Change in Accounting Entity
Accounting Changes
18. Existing condition - situation - or set of circumstances involving varying degrees of uncertainty that may result in the decrease in an asset or the incurrence of a liability. A provision for a loss contingency should be accrued with a charge to inco
Extraordinary Items
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Contingent Liability
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
19. Revaluation is not permitted.
Development Costs (R&D)
Contingent Liability
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
20. Recognized in a two-step process: (1) recognition of the tax benefit (2) measurement of the tax benefit.
Goodwill Impairment
Uncertain Tax Positions
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Notes to the Financial Statements
21. No requirement for explicitly stating following US GAAP.
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Reporting of Pension Cost
Notes to the Financial Statements
Indirect Costs of Lease
22. Prior service cost increase the PBO and other comprehensive income in the period incurred and is then amortized to pension expense over the plan participant's remaining years of service.
Prior Service Cost
Segment Reporting
Treasury Stock
Interim Financial Reporting
23. All adjustments for changes in deferred tax balances due to changes in tax laws or rates are recognized on the income statement.
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Marketable Securities - Classification
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
24. If year of change - all previous financial statements that are presented in comparative format along with the current year are to be restated to reflect the information for the new reporting entity.
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Determining Functional Currency
Change in Accounting Entity
25. Functional currency is the currency of the entity's primary economic environment. Local currency is functional currency when foreign operations are relatively self-contained within that country.
Determining Functional Currency
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Bond Issue Costs
26. Enacted tax rate only.
Pension Plan Cost
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Prior Service Cost
27. Entities cannot apply the FASB conceptual framework to specific accounting issues
Revenue Recognition
Conceptual Framework
Computer and Software Development Costs
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
28. No classification
Conceptual Framework
Contingent Liability
Investment Property
Related Party Transactions
29. Classified as: (1) trading (2) available-for-sale (3) held-to-maturity
Notes to the Financial Statements
Marketable Securities - Classification
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
30. Not required to match consumption. No requirement to review method - life - or salvage value at year end. Can use composite or component depreciation.
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Treasury Stock
Fixed Asset Depreciation
31. Entities may elect the fair value option for recognized financial assets and financial liabilities. You cannot elect fair value on these: (1) VIE that is required to be consolidated (2) pension plan assets/liabilities (3) leased financial assets/liab
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Intangible Assets
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Prior Service Cost
32. Segment profit or loss - assets.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Related Party Transactions
Segment Reporting
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
33. Recognition of gains is dependent on the rights of the leased property retained by the seller-lessee.
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Notes to the Financial Statements
Pension Plan Liability
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
34. Bank overdrafts are excluded from cash and classified as financing cash flows.
Indirect Costs of Lease
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Related Party Transactions
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
35. May not be capitalized.
Notes to the Financial Statements
Development Costs (R&D)
Indirect Costs of Lease
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
36. (Balance sheet - income statement - SOCF) as of the most recent fiscal quarter and as of the end of the preceding fiscal year.
Reporting of Remeasurements
Variable Interest Entity
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
37. Interest and dividends received - interest paid and taxes paid are CFO. Dividends paid are classified as CFF.
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Error Correction
Marketable Securities - Classification
38. If year-end differs by three months or less - parent can use the subsidiary's regular financial statements of a different period - but they must be significantly disclosed.
Construction Contracts
Determining Functional Currency
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
39. Best method that clearly reflects periodic income. Does not need to have a rational relationship with the physical inventory flow. LFIO is permitted.
Discontinued Operations
Fixed Asset Impairment
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Convertible Bonds
40. Impairment losses recognized in income statement and cost basis is reduced. If held-to-maturity - subsequent changes are not recognized. If available-for-sale - subsequent income is included in OCI.
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Marketable Securities - Impairment
41. Entities have two choices when accounting for gains and losses: (1) recognize on the income statement in period incurred (2) recognize in OCI in the period incurred and then amortize to pension expense using the corridor approach.
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Change in Accounting Entity
Subsequent Events
42. When the direct method is used - entities are required to present a reconciliation of net income to net cash flows from operating activities.
Goodwill Impairment
Intangible Assets
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Contingent Liability
43. Components of net periodic pension cost are SIRAGE: service cost - interest cost - return on plan assets - amortization of prior service cost - gain/loss amortization - existing net obligation/asset amortization.
Pension Plan Cost
Investment Property
Contingent Liability
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
44. Contracts that may be settled in cash or stock are not included in diluted EPS if circumstances indicate that eh contract will be paid in cash.
Lease Classification
Extraordinary Items
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Diluted EPS
45. Unusual in nature and infrequence in occurrence and material.
Fixed Asset Impairment
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Pension Plan Liability
Extraordinary Items
46. Costs before technological feasibility must be expensed - costs after technological feasibility are capitalized.
Revenue Recognition
Diluted EPS
Computer and Software Development Costs
Reporting of Remeasurements
47. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Lease Classification
Pension Plan Liability
Revenue Recognition
48. Slight variation from year-end reporting.
Interim Financial Reporting
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Development Costs (R&D)
Notes to the Financial Statements
49. Indirect direct costs paid by the lessee are expensed when incurred.
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Prior Service Cost
Indirect Costs of Lease
Notes to the Financial Statements
50. Unrecognized prior service cost and unrecognized pension gains and losses are reported in AOCI. The pension benefit asset/liability is equal to the funded status of the pension plan.
Reporting of Remeasurements
Diluted EPS
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Development Costs (R&D)