3. Marsh Company has other operating expenses of $240,000. There has been an increase in prepaid expenses of $16,000 during the year, and accrued liabilities are $24,000 lower than in the prior period. Using the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities, what were Marsh's cash payments for operating expenses?…
b. The City records the following revenues (on account) and other financing sources (paid in cash)…
7. Users of financial accounting statements have both coinciding and conflicting needs for information of various types.…
judgments about matters that are material to users of the financial statements are based on a consideration of the common financial information needs of users as a group.???…
Chapter Two Characteristics that make accounting information useful: - Understandability o The quality of accounting information that makes it comprehensive to those willing to spend the necessary time. - Relevance o The capacity of information to make a difference in a decision - Reliability o The quality that makes accounting information dependable in representing the events that it purports to represent Verifiability Representation faithfulness Neutrality Conservatism - Comparability o Allows for comparison to be made between or among companies -…
8-13 PART 1 SOLUTIONS TO THE EXCEL BASED EXERCISES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN EXCEL ON…
A check for $342 was erroneously charged by the bank as $432. In order for the bank…
Hence, a view has been adopted by the regulators that users of financial statements should have a certain level of knowledge, and when accounting standards are being developed, this level of knowledge is assumed. In defence of this position, we could probably argue that if such an assumption was not made then the development of accounting standards would be much more difficult and time consuming given that the standard-setters would need to consider how uninformed users might react to the particular standards. The position adopted is also consistent with other professions which also typically assume a certain level of expertise when developing guidance for their professions’ members (however, we need to be careful with justifications like this—just because others do a…
Financial information should possess a number of qualitative characteristics in order to meet the needs of users of financial statements. There are, however, a number of issues that surround the qualitative characteristics of financial information. The threshold quality of materiality is not easy to define and can be misunderstood. Similarly, the concept of prudence is not clear-cut and can conflict with neutrality. In addition, relevance and reliability can be conflicting targets and a trade-off needs to be made between the two.…
Usefulness is the basic objective of financial accounting, according to the AASB s Statement of Accounting Concepts and Conceptual Framework. This essay discusses the theoretical principles and accounting rules underpinning financial reporting practices within the IFRS environment. Following the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standards in 2005, many additional disclosure requirements were imposed on organisations which have proven to be costly and of little benefit to some organisations. Australia s new differential reporting framework is aimed at relieving these organisations of some of the disclosure requirements whilst remaining consistent with the basic objective. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the objective of financial reports from a users and preparers perspective with particular reference to Australia s new differential financial reporting framework. Findings are that the qualitative characteristics that have evolved over time play an important role in determining the meaning of usefulness and that the differential financial reporting framework will have both positive and negative impacts on users and preparers of financial reports.…
ABSTRACT: This group report contains a simple descriptive analysis on the Earning Management and Quality of Accounting information for users. Business, Investments, Profit & Loss these words are so much related when we say Accounting. In doing business it’s important to keep the records for different purposes i.e. decision making, attracting investors. However, managers often try to do some engineering with the accounting information. Earnings management is a strategy used by the management of a company to deliberately manipulate the company's earnings so that the figures match a pre-determined target. This practice is carried out for the purpose of income smoothing. To make the report trustworthy, it’s the responsibility of managers to maintain certain qualities & standards. The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASB) establishes and maintains generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that set forth the qualities and standards of accounting information. Unless a company’s accounting records meet GAAP standards, an auditor cannot certify the company’s records.…
Relevant accounting information is considered an important quality characteristic in some countries. Generally speaking, whether a set of information is relevant, it will depend on its predictive value, feedback value and timeliness. If a message can help users predict the results of future events, then this information has predictive value, the user can predict the likely outcome, to make the best choice. The predictive value of information could change the decision-making, so it is an important factor of relevance. If a message can make the user confirm or correct prediction of actual results over the past feedback to decision makers, compared with the…
1. The qualitative characteristics of relevance, reliability and comparability identified in the IASB’s Framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements (Framework) are some of the attributes that make financial information useful to the various users of financial statements.…
EXERCISE 16-13 (15–25 minutes) 1/1/14 No entry (total compensation cost is HK$450,000) 12/31/14 Compensation Expense 225,000 Share Premium—Share Options (HK$450,000 X 1/2) 225,000 12/31/15 Compensation Expense 225,000 Share Premium—Share Options 225,000 5/1/16 Cash (9,000 X HK$20) 180,000 Share Premium—Share Options 405,000* Share Capital—Ordinary (9,000 X HK$5)…
The general purpose financial reports can also be a mean that the management and governing bodies use to discharge their accountability to those users. To meet the purpose of the Accounting Concepts and Accounting Standards about adequate disclosure of information to users of the general purpose financial report, it is important that the entities that should report are required to report. Additionally to make sure that the general purpose financial reports are developed rationally and efficiently, it is also important that entities that do not need to report are not required to…