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U.S. GAAP
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1. Percentage of completion and completed contract method allowed.
Pension Plan Cost
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Construction Contracts
Indirect Costs of Lease
2. No separate recognition is given to the conversion feature when convertible bonds are issued. Bonds are recorded in same manner as non-convertible bonds.
Convertible Bonds
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Lease Classification
3. Costs before technological feasibility must be expensed - costs after technological feasibility are capitalized.
Diluted EPS
Discontinued Operations
Computer and Software Development Costs
Goodwill Impairment
4. Recognition of gains is dependent on the rights of the leased property retained by the seller-lessee.
Pension Plan Liability
Change in Accounting Entity
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
5. Must disclose nature of operations - use of estimates - estimate of a change in estimate - vulnerability of the risk f near-term severe impact from a material concentration.
Risks and Uncertainties
Inventory Valuation
Foreign Currency Translation
Gains and Losses on Pensions
6. Bank overdrafts are excluded from cash and classified as financing cash flows.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Development Costs (R&D)
Determining Functional Currency
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
7. Considered non-compensatory if they meet certain requirements.
Interim Financial Reporting
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Accounting Changes
8. 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
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Marketable Securities - Classification
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Variable Interest Entity
9. Components of net periodic pension cost must be aggregated and presented as one amount on the income statement.
Reporting of Pension Cost
Subsequent Events
Related Party Transactions
Nonmonetary Exchanges
10. 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
Change in Accounting Entity
Inventory Valuation
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
11. FASB has not yet issued a pronouncement on convergence with IASB.
Subsequent Events
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Fixed Asset Valuation
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
12. Classified as: (1) trading (2) available-for-sale (3) held-to-maturity
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Segment Reporting
Marketable Securities - Classification
13. All adjustments for changes in deferred tax balances due to changes in tax laws or rates are recognized on the income statement.
Indirect Costs of Lease
Investment Property
Fixed Asset Valuation
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
14. No impracticality exception for error corrections.
Error Correction
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
Fixed Asset Impairment
Contingent Liability
15. Research and development costs expensed - reported using the cost model only.
Interim Financial Reporting
Prior Service Cost
Treasury Stock
Intangible Assets
16. All gains and losses included in OCI
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Extraordinary Items
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
17. Cost method or legal (par) method.
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Reporting of Pension Cost
Treasury Stock
18. Probable is defined as likely to occur and reasonably possible is defined as more likely than remote - but less than likely.
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Computer and Software Development Costs
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
19. Revaluation is not permitted.
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Convertible Bonds
Extraordinary Items
20. Enacted tax rate only.
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Marketable Securities - Classification
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
21. 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).
Lease Classification
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Interim Financial Reporting
22. Lower of cost or market.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Development Costs (R&D)
Diluted EPS
Inventory Valuation
23. Finite life intangibles - two step process: compare carrying amount to undiscounted cash flows - then if carrying amount exceeds cash flows - impairment amount is the difference between carrying amount and fair value of asset. For indefinite life - c
Change in Accounting Entity
Inventory Valuation
Investment Property
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
24. 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.
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Change in Accounting Entity
Gains and Losses on Pensions
25. Indirect direct costs paid by the lessee are expensed when incurred.
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Goodwill Impairment
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Indirect Costs of Lease
26. Entities are required to disclose concentrations of credit risk. Market risk disclosures are optional.
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Discontinued Operations
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Convertible Bonds
27. Entities cannot apply the FASB conceptual framework to specific accounting issues
Pension Plan Cost
Accounting Changes
Conceptual Framework
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
28. 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.
Fixed Asset Valuation
Notes to the Financial Statements
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Pension Plan Cost
29. 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.
Conceptual Framework
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Accounting Changes
30. 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.
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Diluted EPS
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Accounting Changes
31. No requirement for explicitly stating following US GAAP.
Investment Property
Subsequent Events
Conceptual Framework
Notes to the Financial Statements
32. Valuation allowance is recognized when it is more likely than not that part or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Diluted EPS
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Uncertain Tax Positions
33. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.
Related Party Transactions
Pension Plan Cost
Pension Plan Liability
Uncertain Tax Positions
34. 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
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Pension Plan Cost
Contingent Liability
35. Enacted tax rate only.
Convertible Bonds
Related Party Transactions
Development Costs (R&D)
Use of Tax Rates
36. 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.
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Fixed Asset Impairment
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Goodwill Impairment
37. Remeasurement method must be used when a foreign subsidiary is operating in a highly inflationary environment.
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Foreign Currency Translation
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Lease Classification
38. Best method that clearly reflects periodic income. Does not need to have a rational relationship with the physical inventory flow. LFIO is permitted.
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Revenue Recognition
39. 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
Pension Plan Liability
Intangible Assets
Revenue Recognition
Nonmonetary Exchanges
40. 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.
Development Costs (R&D)
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Determining Functional Currency
Change in Accounting Entity
41. 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
Variable Interest Entity
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Discontinued Operations
42. Interest and dividends received - interest paid and taxes paid are CFO. Dividends paid are classified as CFF.
Error Correction
Change in Accounting Entity
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Determining Functional Currency
43. Asset not required to be remeasures - but does get tested for impairment once classified as held-for-sale
Segment Reporting
Revenue Recognition
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Discontinued Operations
44. Lessees--operating or capital leases. Lessors--operating - sales-type - or direct financing leases.
Fixed Asset Impairment
Pension Plan Liability
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Lease Classification
45. 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
Convertible Bonds
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Pension Plan Cost
Determining Functional Currency
46. 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
Convertible Bonds
Discontinued Operations
Development Costs (R&D)
47. 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 : (
Investment Property
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
48. 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.
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Change in Accounting Entity
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
49. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Computer and Software Development Costs
Notes to the Financial Statements
Pension Plan Liability
50. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment
Contingent Liability
Fixed Asset Valuation
Indirect Costs of Lease
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates