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U.S. GAAP
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1. Recognition of gains is dependent on the rights of the leased property retained by the seller-lessee.
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Gains and Losses on Pensions
2. 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
Conceptual Framework
Inventory Valuation
Extraordinary Items
Subsequent Events
3. Considered non-compensatory if they meet certain requirements.
Uncertain Tax Positions
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Pension Plan Cost
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
4. Unusual in nature and infrequence in occurrence and material.
Extraordinary Items
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Error Correction
Related Party Transactions
5. 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.
Construction Contracts
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Subsequent Events
Convertible Bonds
6. 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
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Gains and Losses on Pensions
7. 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.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Error Correction
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Diluted EPS
8. Components of net periodic pension cost must be aggregated and presented as one amount on the income statement.
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Reporting of Pension Cost
9. All gains and losses included in OCI
Computer and Software Development Costs
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Fixed Asset Valuation
Fixed Asset Depreciation
10. 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
Marketable Securities - Impairment
Variable Interest Entity
Pension Plan Cost
Contingent Liability
11. Segment profit or loss - assets.
Segment Reporting
Fixed Asset Valuation
Bond Issue Costs
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
12. 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.
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Diluted EPS
Treasury Stock
Prior Service Cost
13. Asset not required to be remeasures - but does get tested for impairment once classified as held-for-sale
Uncertain Tax Positions
Computer and Software Development Costs
Discontinued Operations
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
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.
Interim Financial Reporting Tax Rates
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Convertible Bonds
15. May not be capitalized.
Development Costs (R&D)
Foreign Currency Translation
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Funded Status of Pension Plan
16. 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.
Accounting Changes
Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
Fixed Asset Impairment
Gains and Losses on Pensions
17. Cost model: historical - accum. depr. = impairment
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Fixed Asset Valuation
Risks and Uncertainties
Impairment of Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
18. 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.
Foreign Currency Translation
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Funded Status of Pension Plan
Construction Contracts
19. Enacted tax rate only.
Inventory Valuation
Marketable Securities - Classification
Use of Tax Rates
Construction Contracts
20. Includes disclosure of significant estimates but not judgments made in preparing the financial statements.
Notes to the Financial Statements
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
21. When the direct method is used - entities are required to present a reconciliation of net income to net cash flows from operating activities.
Statement of Cash Flows (Method)
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Extraordinary Items
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
22. Bank overdrafts are excluded from cash and classified as financing cash flows.
Reporting of Pension Cost
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Determining Functional Currency
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
23. Entities cannot apply the FASB conceptual framework to specific accounting issues
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Conceptual Framework
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Lease Classification
24. Indirect direct costs paid by the lessee are expensed when incurred.
Indirect Costs of Lease
Bond Issue Costs
Determining Functional Currency
Investment Property
25. FASB has not yet issued a pronouncement on convergence with IASB.
Bond Issue Costs
Change in Accounting Entity
Segment Reporting
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
26. Entities are required to disclose concentrations of credit risk. Market risk disclosures are optional.
Determining Functional Currency
Disclosure of Financial Instruments
Use of Tax Rates
Prior Service Cost
27. Revaluation is not permitted.
Subsequent Events
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Fixed Asset Impairment
28. 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.
Contingencies (Probable and Possible Definitions)
Inventory Valuation
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Risks and Uncertainties
29. 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
Consolidation - Parent and Subsidiary with Different Year-Ends
Reporting of Remeasurements
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
30. May be presented as a primary financial statement or in the notes of the financial statement.
31. No classification
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Determining Functional Currency
Investment Property
Marketable Securities - Impairment
32. 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
Pension Plan Liability
Marketable Securities - Available-For-Sale
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
33. 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
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Variable Interest Entity
Reporting of Deferred Taxes
34. Valuation allowance is recognized when it is more likely than not that part or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.
Fixed Asset Impairment
Contingent Liability
Variable Interest Entity
Accounting for Income Taxes (Valuation)
35. Costs before technological feasibility must be expensed - costs after technological feasibility are capitalized.
Computer and Software Development Costs
Variable Interest Entity
Development Costs (R&D)
Uncertain Tax Positions
36. Not required to match consumption. No requirement to review method - life - or salvage value at year end. Can use composite or component depreciation.
Capital (Finance) Lease Criteria
Fixed Asset Depreciation
Comprehensive Income (Presentation)
Foreign Currency Translation
37. 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.
Accounting Changes
Notes to the Financial Statements
Discontinued Operations
Investment Property
38. (Balance sheet - income statement - SOCF) as of the most recent fiscal quarter and as of the end of the preceding fiscal year.
Computer and Software Development Costs
Bond Discount/Premium Amortization
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Risks and Uncertainties
39. Recognized in a two-step process: (1) recognition of the tax benefit (2) measurement of the tax benefit.
Uncertain Tax Positions
Marketable Securities - Classification
Pension Plan Cost
Subsequent Events
40. 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.
Financial Instruments (Initial Recognition)
Gains and Losses on Pensions
Subsequent Events
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
41. Interest and dividends received - interest paid and taxes paid are CFO. Dividends paid are classified as CFF.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Statement of Cash Flows (Interest and Dividends)
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Marketable Securities - Classification
42. Lower of cost or market.
Indirect Costs of Lease
Construction Contracts
Interim Financial Reporting Requirements
Inventory Valuation
43. Best method that clearly reflects periodic income. Does not need to have a rational relationship with the physical inventory flow. LFIO is permitted.
Computer and Software Development Costs
Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees
Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions
Reporting of Pension Cost
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
Goodwill Impairment
Fixed Asset Impairment
Marketable Securities - Impairment
45. No requirement for disclosure of key management compensation arrangements.
Variable Interest Entity
Fixed Asset Impairment
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
Related Party Transactions
46. 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.
Statement of Cash Flows (Cash)
Error Correction
Change in Accounting Entity
Reporting of Pension Cost
47. 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.
Use of Tax Rates
Financial Instruments (Fair Value)
Reporting of Remeasurements
Fixed Asset Impairment
48. No impracticality exception for error corrections.
Error Correction
Sale-Leaseback Transactions
Interim Financial Reporting
Related Party Transactions
49. Projection benefit obligation (PBO) is the defined benefit pension plan liability.
Convertible Bonds
Pension Plan Liability
Accounting for Adjustments in Tax Rates
Comprehensive Income (Revaluation)
50. 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
Subsequent Events
Nonmonetary Exchanges
Related Party Transactions
Pension Plan Cost