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1. 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






2. All gains and losses included in OCI






3. 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.






4. Valuation allowance is recognized when it is more likely than not that part or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.






5. Indirect direct costs paid by the lessee are expensed when incurred.






6. No classification






7. Asset not required to be remeasures - but does get tested for impairment once classified as held-for-sale






8. No requirement for explicitly stating following US GAAP.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. Segment profit or loss - assets.






12. Lessees--operating or capital leases. Lessors--operating - sales-type - or direct financing leases.






13. Classified as: (1) trading (2) available-for-sale (3) held-to-maturity






14. Revaluation is not permitted.






15. Includes disclosure of significant estimates but not judgments made in preparing the financial statements.






16. 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).






17. Recorded as an asset and amortized using the straight-line method.






18. No impracticality exception for error corrections.






19. 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.






20. Remeasurement method must be used when a foreign subsidiary is operating in a highly inflationary environment.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Best method that clearly reflects periodic income. Does not need to have a rational relationship with the physical inventory flow. LFIO is permitted.






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.






25. FASB has not yet issued a pronouncement on convergence with IASB.






26. 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.






27. Unusual in nature and infrequence in occurrence and material.






28. 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.






29. All adjustments for changes in deferred tax balances due to changes in tax laws or rates are recognized on the income statement.






30. Slight variation from year-end reporting.






31. 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.






32. 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






33. Percentage of completion and completed contract method allowed.






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.






38. Recognized in a two-step process: (1) recognition of the tax benefit (2) measurement of the tax benefit.






39. 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.






40. May not be capitalized.






41. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment






42. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.






43. Interest and dividends received - interest paid and taxes paid are CFO. Dividends paid are classified as CFF.






44. Enacted tax rate only.






45. Components of net periodic pension cost must be aggregated and presented as one amount on the income statement.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. Probable is defined as likely to occur and reasonably possible is defined as more likely than remote - but less than likely.







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