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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 : (
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Treasury Stock
2. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Related Party Transactions
Subsequent Events
Error Correction
3. FASB has not yet issued a pronouncement on convergence with IASB.
Revenue Recognition
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Construction Contracts
4. Lessees--operating or capital leases. Lessors--operating - sales-type - or direct financing leases.
Investment Property
Indirect Costs of Lease
Lease Classification
Change in Accounting Entity
5. 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
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Goodwill Impairment
Notes to the Financial Statements
6. 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).
Inventory Valuation
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Discontinued Operations
Interim Financial Reporting
7. 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
Subsequent Events
Notes to the Financial Statements
Discontinued Operations
Pension Plan Cost
8. Classified as: (1) trading (2) available-for-sale (3) held-to-maturity
Risks and Uncertainties
Marketable Securities - Classification
Subsequent Events
Foreign Currency Translation
9. Enacted tax rate only.
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Inventory Valuation
Use of Tax Rates
10. Considered non-compensatory if they meet certain requirements.
Fixed Asset Impairment
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Notes to the Financial Statements
11. Asset not required to be remeasures - but does get tested for impairment once classified as held-for-sale
Subsequent Events
Extraordinary Items
Discontinued Operations
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
12. 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
Determining Functional Currency
Revenue Recognition
Goodwill Impairment
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
13. Probable is defined as likely to occur and reasonably possible is defined as more likely than remote - but less than likely.
Treasury Stock
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Extraordinary Items
Investment Property
14. No separate recognition is given to the conversion feature when convertible bonds are issued. Bonds are recorded in same manner as non-convertible bonds.
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Indirect Costs of Lease
Convertible Bonds
Funded Status of Pension Plan
15. Two step test: fair value of reporting unit compared to its carrying value - including goodwill. If fair value is less than carrying value - an impairment loss is calculated by comparing the implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill to the
Lease Classification
Goodwill Impairment
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Accounting Changes
16. Research and development costs expensed - reported using the cost model only.
Prior Service Cost
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Intangible Assets
Goodwill Impairment
17. No classification
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Investment Property
Change in Accounting Entity
Fixed Asset Depreciation
18. Cost method or legal (par) method.
Treasury Stock
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Extraordinary Items
Risks and Uncertainties
19. 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.
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Notes to the Financial Statements
Diluted EPS
20. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment
Fixed Asset Valuation
Bond Issue Costs
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Prior Service Cost
21. 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
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Contingent Liability
Prior Service Cost
Nonmonetary Exchanges
22. All gains and losses included in OCI
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Diluted EPS
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Marketable Securities - Classification
23. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.
Pension Plan Liability
Notes to the Financial Statements
Notes to the Financial Statements
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
24. Includes disclosure of significant estimates but not judgments made in preparing the financial statements.
Pension Plan Liability
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Notes to the Financial Statements
25. 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.
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Construction Contracts
Prior Service Cost
Pension Plan Cost
26. Not required to match consumption. No requirement to review method - life - or salvage value at year end. Can use composite or component depreciation.
Computer and Software Development Costs
Diluted EPS
Goodwill Impairment
Fixed Asset Depreciation
27. Unusual in nature and infrequence in occurrence and material.
Diluted EPS
Development Costs (R&D)
Discontinued Operations
Extraordinary Items
28. Best method that clearly reflects periodic income. Does not need to have a rational relationship with the physical inventory flow. LFIO is permitted.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Lease Classification
Conceptual Framework
29. Entities cannot apply the FASB conceptual framework to specific accounting issues
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Conceptual Framework
Funded Status of Pension Plan
30. Two Step Test: (1) test for recovery: compare carrying value to undiscounted future cash flows (2) calculate impairment: difference between carrying value and fair value. Reversal of impairment losses is only permitted for assets held for sale.
Diluted EPS
Pension Plan Liability
Fixed Asset Impairment
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
31. Enacted tax rate only.
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Use of Tax Rates
32. 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.
Convertible Bonds
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Prior Service Cost
Related Party Transactions
33. Costs before technological feasibility must be expensed - costs after technological feasibility are capitalized.
Treasury Stock
Notes to the Financial Statements
Computer and Software Development Costs
Investment Property
34. Percentage of completion and completed contract method allowed.
Notes to the Financial Statements
Goodwill Impairment
Construction Contracts
Treasury Stock
35. Recognition of gains is dependent on the rights of the leased property retained by the seller-lessee.
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
36. Entities are required to disclose concentrations of credit risk. Market risk disclosures are optional.
Fixed Asset Valuation
Reporting of Pension Cost
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Pension Plan Cost
37. 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 (Presentation)
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Convertible Bonds
Prior Service Cost
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.
Contingent Liability
Intangible Assets
Risks and Uncertainties
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
39. 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
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Revenue Recognition
Computer and Software Development Costs
40. No impracticality exception for error corrections.
Discontinued Operations
Change in Accounting Entity
Extraordinary Items
Error Correction
41. Recorded as an asset and amortized using the straight-line method.
Investment Property
Computer and Software Development Costs
Uncertain Tax Positions
Bond Issue Costs
42. 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.
Investment Property
Risks and Uncertainties
Lease Classification
Gains and Losses on Pensions
43. Either does not have equity investors with voting rights or lacks sufficient financial resources to support its activities. Primary beneficiary must consolidate the VIE. The primary beneficiary is the entity that has the power to direct the activitie
Variable Interest Entity
Intangible Assets
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Related Party Transactions
44. Indirect direct costs paid by the lessee are expensed when incurred.
Accounting Changes
Computer and Software Development Costs
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Indirect Costs of Lease
45. Lower of cost or market.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Inventory Valuation
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Pension Plan Cost
46. Revaluation is not permitted.
Intangible Assets
Fixed Asset Valuation
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
47. Funded status is reported of an overfunded pension plan is reported in full as a noncurrent asset. Underfunded plans are reported as current - non-current - or both.
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Accounting Changes
Development Costs (R&D)
Inventory Valuation
48. Remeasurement method must be used when a foreign subsidiary is operating in a highly inflationary environment.
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Construction Contracts
Foreign Currency Translation
Reporting of Pension Cost
49. Bank overdrafts are excluded from cash and classified as financing cash flows.
Development Costs (R&D)
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Reporting of Remeasurements
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
50. No requirement for explicitly stating following US GAAP.
Convertible Bonds
Conceptual Framework
Variable Interest Entity
Notes to the Financial Statements