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U.S. GAAP
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1. Not required to match consumption. No requirement to review method - life - or salvage value at year end. Can use composite or component depreciation.
Convertible Bonds
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
2. 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.
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Diluted EPS
Risks and Uncertainties
Prior Service Cost
3. Enacted tax rate only.
Interim Financial Reporting
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
4. When the direct method is used - entities are required to present a reconciliation of net income to net cash flows from operating activities.
Prior Service Cost
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Notes to the Financial Statements
Change in Accounting Entity
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.
Conceptual Framework
Risks and Uncertainties
Computer and Software Development Costs
Notes to the Financial Statements
6. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.
Pension Plan Liability
Bond Issue Costs
Notes to the Financial Statements
Related Party Transactions
7. Classified as: (1) trading (2) available-for-sale (3) held-to-maturity
Notes to the Financial Statements
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Marketable Securities - Classification
Prior Service Cost
8. Valuation allowance is recognized when it is more likely than not that part or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Computer and Software Development Costs
Variable Interest Entity
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
9. Includes disclosure of significant estimates but not judgments made in preparing the financial statements.
Accounting Changes
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
Notes to the Financial Statements
Error Correction
10. Slight variation from year-end reporting.
Interim Financial Reporting
Construction Contracts
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Fixed Asset Impairment
11. Revaluation is not permitted.
Treasury Stock
Interim Financial Reporting
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Gains and Losses on Pensions
12. Costs before technological feasibility must be expensed - costs after technological feasibility are capitalized.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Convertible Bonds
Computer and Software Development Costs
13. No requirement for explicitly stating following US GAAP.
Error Correction
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Notes to the Financial Statements
Conceptual Framework
14. Enacted tax rate only.
Extraordinary Items
Use of Tax Rates
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Uncertain Tax Positions
15. Recorded as an asset and amortized using the straight-line method.
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Bond Issue Costs
16. 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.
Use of Tax Rates
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Investment Property
Error Correction
17. Bank overdrafts are excluded from cash and classified as financing cash flows.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Discontinued Operations
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
18. 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 Liability
Inventory Valuation
Reporting of Remeasurements
Pension Plan Cost
19. Remeasurement method must be used when a foreign subsidiary is operating in a highly inflationary environment.
Convertible Bonds
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Foreign Currency Translation
Construction Contracts
20. 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.
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
21. 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.
Reporting of Remeasurements
Change in Accounting Entity
Conceptual Framework
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
22. All adjustments for changes in deferred tax balances due to changes in tax laws or rates are recognized on the income statement.
Development Costs (R&D)
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Indirect Costs of Lease
23. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Fixed Asset Valuation
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
24. No separate recognition is given to the conversion feature when convertible bonds are issued. Bonds are recorded in same manner as non-convertible bonds.
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Use of Tax Rates
Convertible Bonds
25. 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.
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Related Party Transactions
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
Investment Property
26. 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 : (
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Indirect Costs of Lease
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
27. Research and development costs expensed - reported using the cost model only.
Goodwill Impairment
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Development Costs (R&D)
Intangible Assets
28. 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
Intangible Assets
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Risks and Uncertainties
29. No classification
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Investment Property
30. 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
Marketable Securities - Classification
Conceptual Framework
Prior Service Cost
31. Entities cannot apply the FASB conceptual framework to specific accounting issues
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Conceptual Framework
Prior Service Cost
Related Party Transactions
32. 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.
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Determining Functional Currency
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
33. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.
Lease Classification
Pension Plan Liability
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Interim Financial Reporting
34. 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
Change in Accounting Entity
Subsequent Events
Determining Functional Currency
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
35. (Balance sheet - income statement - SOCF) as of the most recent fiscal quarter and as of the end of the preceding fiscal year.
Convertible Bonds
Error Correction
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Foreign Currency Translation
36. Unusual in nature and infrequence in occurrence and material.
Variable Interest Entity
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Extraordinary Items
Goodwill Impairment
37. Asset not required to be remeasures - but does get tested for impairment once classified as held-for-sale
Change in Accounting Entity
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Inventory Valuation
Discontinued Operations
38. 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.
Investment Property
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Reporting of Remeasurements
39. No impracticality exception for error corrections.
Inventory Valuation
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Error Correction
Development Costs (R&D)
40. Interest and dividends received - interest paid and taxes paid are CFO. Dividends paid are classified as CFF.
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Convertible Bonds
41. 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
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Contingent Liability
Lease Classification
42. Entities are required to disclose concentrations of credit risk. Market risk disclosures are optional.
Lease Classification
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Indirect Costs of Lease
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
43. Lessees--operating or capital leases. Lessors--operating - sales-type - or direct financing leases.
Computer and Software Development Costs
Convertible Bonds
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Lease Classification
44. 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
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Development Costs (R&D)
Goodwill Impairment
Notes to the Financial Statements
45. May not be capitalized.
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Accounting Changes
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Development Costs (R&D)
46. May be presented as a primary financial statement or in the notes of the financial statement.
47. 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
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Risks and Uncertainties
48. Cost method or legal (par) method.
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Fixed Asset Valuation
Investment Property
Treasury Stock
49. All gains and losses included in OCI
Bond Issue Costs
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Error Correction
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
50. 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
Construction Contracts
Revenue Recognition
Diluted EPS
Inventory Valuation