Intermediate Accounting Ch 4 – Flashcards

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Misty Company reported the following before-tax items during the current year: Sales-$600, Operating Exp-250, Restructuring charges-20, Extraordinary loss-50.Misty's effective tax rate is 40%. What is misty's income before extraordinary items
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($600 - 250 - 20) x (1 -.4) = $198
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Misty Company reported the following before-tax items during the current year: Sales-$600, Operating Exp-250, Restructuring charges-20, Extraordinary loss-50.Misty's effective tax rate is 40%. What is Misty's net income for the current year?
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Income before extraordinary item before taxes ($600 - 250 - 20) $330 Income tax expense ($330 x 40%) 132 Income before extraordinary item 198 Extraordinary loss (net of tax benefit, $20) (30 ) Net income $168
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The Maytag Corporation's income statement includes income from continuing operations, a loss from discontinued operations, and extraordinary items. Earnings per share information would be provided for:
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Income from continuing operations, loss from discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and net income.
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Change statements include a:
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Cash flow statement, income statement, and retained earnings statement
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The FASB's stated preference for reporting operating cash flows is the:
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Direct method.
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Schneider Inc. had salaries payable of $60,000 and $90,000 at the end of 2012 and 2013, respectively. During 2013, Schneider recorded $620,000 in salaries expense in its income statement. Cash outflows for salaries in 2013 were:
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$590,000.
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Shady Lane's income tax payable account decreased from $14 million to $12 million during 2013. If its income tax expense was $80 million, what was shown as an operating cash flow under the direct method?
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A cash outflow of $82 million ($14 million + 80 million - x = $12 million. x = $82 million.)
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Bird Brain Co. reported net income of $45,000 for the year ended December 31, 2013. January 1 balances in accounts receivable and accounts payable were $23,000 and $26,000 respectively. Year-end balances in these accounts were $22,000 and $28,000, respectively. Assuming that all relevant information has been presented, Bird Brain's cash flows from operating activities would be:
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Net income $45,000 Add decrease in A/R 1,000 Add increase in A/P 2,000 Cash flows from operating activities $48,000
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Jacobsen Corporation prepares its financial statement applying International Financial Reporting Standards. During its 2013 fiscal year, the company reported before-tax income of $620,000. This amount does not include the following two items, both of which are considered to be material in amount:*Unusual and infrequent gain $200,000 Loss from discontinued operations (300,000)* The company's income tax rate is 40%. In its 2013 income statement, Jacobsen would report income from continuing operations of:
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$492,000.
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Hong Kong Clothiers reported revenue of $5,000,000 for its year ended December 31, 2013. Accounts receivable at December 31, 2012 and 2013, were $320,000 and $355,000, respectively. Using the direct method for reporting cash flows from operating activities, Hong Kong Clothiers would report cash collected from customers of:
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Cash collections = $320,000 + 5,000,000 - 355,000 = $4,965,000
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Reporting comprehensive income according to International Financial Reporting Standards can be accomplished by each of the following methods except:
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In the statement of shareholders' equity.
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Comprehensive income is the change in equity from:
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Nonowner transactions.
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Reconciliation between net income and comprehensive income would include:
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Unrealized losses and unrealized gains on available for sale securities.
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When a company changes from the straight-line method of deprecation for previously recorded assets to the double-declining balance method, which of the following should be used?
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Neither retrospective application or cumulative effects of change in accounting priciple
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What are the components of income from continuing operations?
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Revenues, expenses(including income taxes), gains and losses, excluding those related to discontinued operations and extraordinary items
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What are revenues?
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Inflows of resources resulting from providing goods or services to customers.
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What are expenses?
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Outflows of resources incurred while generating revenue, represent the costs of providing goods and services
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What are gains? Losses?
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Increases or decreases in equity from peripheral or incidental transactions of an entity.
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What is income tax expense and how is it reported?
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Income tax expense is always reported as a separate expense in corporate income statements. The represent a major expense to a corporation.
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What is operating income
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Includes revenues and expenses directly related to the primary revenue-generating activities of the company
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What is nonoperating income?
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Relates to peripheral or incidental activities of the company, so it includes certain gains and losses and revenues and expenses of the company.
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Income statement that first lists all the revenues and gains included in income, then expenses and losses are grouped subtotaled and subtracted from revenues and gains to obtain income from continuing operations. Income tax expense is usually listed last.
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Single step income statement
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This format reports a series of intermediate subtotals such as gross profit, operating income, and income before taxes.
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Multiple-Step income statment
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Refers to the ability of reported earnings to predict a company's future earnings
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Earnings quality
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Transitory Earnings Effects
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Result from transactions or events that are not likely to occur again in the foreseeable future or that are likely to have a different impact on earnings in the future.
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What are the two major ways to manipulate income?
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Income Shifting and Income Statement classification
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How to solve for EPS
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Net Income divided by shares outstanding
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An expanded version of income that includes four types of gains and losses that traditionally have not been included in income statements
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Comprehensive income
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What are the four types of gains and losses not recognized in comprehensive income?
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1. Changes in he market value of certain investments 2. Gains and losses to due revising assumptions or market returns differing from expectations and prior service cost 3. When a derivative designed as a cash flow hedge is adjusted to fair value, the gain or loss is deferred as a component of comprehensive income 4. Gains or losses from changes in foreign currency exchange rates
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Accounting standards bible
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(FASB) Accounting Standards Codification
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Costs associated with shutdown or relocation of facilities or downsizing of operations are recognized in the period incurred
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Restructuring Costs
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The carrying value (book value) of the assets of the component is more than fair value minus cost to sell
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Impairment Loss
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Items that are reported separately, with taxes associated are...
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Discontinued operations and Extraordinary Items
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Income tax expense must be associated with each component of income that causes it, so, what do you have to show income tax expense for?
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Income tax expense related to income from continuing operations and effects of discontinued operations and extraordinary items.
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A "component" that either has been disposed of or is classified as held for sale, and represents one of the following: A separate major line of business or major geographical area of operations, part of a single coordinated plan to dispose of a separate major line of business or geographical area of operations, or a business that meets the criteria to be classified as held for sale on acquisition
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Discontinued operations
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Income or loss from operations of the component from the beginning of the reporting period to the disposal date
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Gain or loss on the disposal of the components assets (reporting for components sold)
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Income or loss from operations of the component from the beginning of the reporting period to the end of the reporting period
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An "Impairment loss" if the carrying value of the assets of the component is more than the fair value minus the cost to sell
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A material event or transaction that is both unusual in nature and infrequent in occurence
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Extraordinary item
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Items that are material and are either unusual or infrequent - but not both- are included as what?
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Separate items in continuing operations
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Change from one GAAP method to another GAAP Method
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Change in accounting principle
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Revision of an estimate because of new information or new experience
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Change in accounting estimate
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Preparation of financial statements for an accounting entity other than the entity that existed in the previous period
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Change in reporting entity
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When an error is discovered in the same year, what is done?
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Reverse original erroneous journal entry and record the appropriate journal entry
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When material errors are discovered in subsequent year, what is done?
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Record a prior period adjustment to the beginning retained earnings balance in a statement of shareholders equity, and previous years financial statements that are incorrect as a result of the error are retrospectively restated to reflect the correction
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Reflects the potential dilution that could occur for companies that have certain securities outstanding that are convertible into common shares or stock options that could create additional common shares if the options were exercised.
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Diluted EPS
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EPS is reported separately for what?
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Income or loss from continuing operations, Separately reported items, and net income or loss
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Reports the cash effects of each operating activity
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Direct method (operating activities)
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Starts with accrual net income and converts to cash basis
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Indirect method (Operating activities)
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