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FINAL EXAMINATION PAPER dd dd




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STUDENT NAME: ________________________________
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COURSE: Kieso Chapter 1 Intermediate Accounting Chapter E
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nd ANSWERS
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EXAM CODE: INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING KIESO EXA
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M PREP-101
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EXAM INSTRUCTIONS: dd



1. Print your full name and date clearly in the header above.
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2. This exam booklet contains both Test Questions (Part I) and Verified Solutions (Part II).
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3. Answer all multiple-choice questions clearly. Double-check your work.
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4. Do not break the seal or open this booklet until instructed to do so by the proctor.
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Q1. WileyPLUS 1-
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1. Differentiate broadly between financial accounting and managerial accounting
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[Verified Solution]: Financial accounting measures, classifies, and summarizes in report form those act
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ivities and that information which relate to the enterprise as a whole for use by parties both internal and
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external to a business enterprise. Managerial accounting also measures, classifies, and summarizes in re
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port form enterprise activities, but the communication is for the use of internal, managerial parties, and
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relates more to subsystems of the entity. Managerial accounting is management decision oriented and di
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rected more toward product line, division, and profit center reportin
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Q2. WileyPLUS 2. - Differentiate between "financial statements" and "financial reporting."
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[Verified Solution]: 2. Financial statements generally refer to the four basic financial statements: balan
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ce sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of changes in owners' or stockholder
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s' equity. Financial reporting is a broader concept; it includes the basic financial statements and any oth
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er means of communicating financial and economic data to interested external parties. Examples of fina
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ncial reporting other than financial statements are annual reports, prospectuses, reports filed with the go
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vernment, news releases, management forecasts or plans, and descriptions of an enterprise's social or en
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vironmental impact. dd




Q3. WileyPLUS 3. -How does accounting help the capital allocation process?
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[Verified Solution]: 3. If a company's financial performance is measured accurately, fairly, and on a ti
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mely basis, the right managers and companies are able to attract investment capital. To provide unreliab
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le and irrelevant information leads to poor capital allocation which adversely affects the securities mark
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et.

, Q4. WileyPLUS 4. - What is the objective of financial reporting?
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[Verified Solution]: 4. The objective of general purpose financial reporting is to provide financial info
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rmation about the reporting entity that is useful to present and potential equity investors, lenders, and ot
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her creditors in decisions about providing resources to the entity through equity investments and loans o
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r other forms of credit. Information that is decision-
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useful to capital providers (investors) may also be useful to other users of financial reporting who are n
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ot investors.
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Q5. WileyPLUS 5. - Briefly explain the meaning of decision-
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usefulness in the context of financial reporting
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[Verified Solution]: 5. Investors are interested in financial reporting because it provides information th
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at is useful for making decisions (referred to as the decision-
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usefulness approach). When making these decisions, investors are interested in assessing the company's
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(1) ability to generate net cash inflows and (2) management's ability to protect and enhance the capital
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providers' investments. Financial reporting should therefore help investors assess the amounts, timing, a
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nd uncertainty of prospective cash inflows from dividends or interest, and the proceeds from the sale, re
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demption, or maturity of securities or loans. In order for investors to make these assessments, the econo
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mic resources of an enterprise, the claims to those resources, and the changes in them must be understo
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od.




Q6. WileyPLUS 6. -
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Of what value is a common set of standards in financial accounting and reporting?
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[Verified Solution]: 6. A common set of standards applied by all businesses and entities provides fina
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ncial statements which are reasonably comparable. Without a common set of standards, each enterprise
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could, and would, develop its own theory structure and set of practices, resulting in noncomparability a
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mong enterprises. dd




Q7. WileyPLUS 7. - What is the likely limitation of "general-purpose financial statements"?
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[Verified Solution]: 7. General- dd dddd dd



purpose financial statements are not likely to satisfy the specific needs of all interested parties. Since th
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e needs of interested parties such as creditors, managers, owners, governmental agencies, and financial a
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nalysts vary considerably, it is unlikely that one set of financial statements is equally appropriate for the
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se varied uses.
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Q8. WileyPLUS 9. -
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What was the Committee on Accounting Procedure, and what were its accomplishments and f
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ailings?
[Verified Solution]: 9. The Committee on Accounting Procedure was a special committee of the Amer
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ican Institute of CPAs that, between the years of 1939 and 1959, issued 51 Accounting Research Bulleti
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ns dealing with a wide variety of timely accounting problems. These bulletins provided solutions to im
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mediate problems and narrowed the range of alternative practices. But, the Committee's problem-by-
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