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Financial Accounting pn




Question 1–1 pn




Financial accounting is concerned with providing relevant financial information a
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bout various kinds of organizations to different types of external users. The primary foc
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us of financial accounting is on the financial information provided by profit-
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oriented companies to their present and potential investors and creditors.
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Question 1–2 pn




Resources are efficiently allocated if they are given to enterprises that will use the
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m to provide goods and services desired by society and not to enterprises that will wast
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e them. The capital markets are the mechanism that fosters this efficient allocation of r
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Question 1–3 pn




Two extremely important variables that must be considered in any investment deci
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sion are the expected rate of return and the uncertainty or risk of that expected return.
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Question 1–4 pn




In the long run, a company will be able to provide investors and creditors with a ra
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te of return only if it can generate a profit. That is, it must be able to use the resources pr
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ovided to it to generate cash receipts from selling a product or service that exceed the ca
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sh disbursements necessary to provide that product or service.
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Question 1–5 pn




The primary objective of financial accounting is to provide investors and creditor
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s with information that will help them make investment and credit decisions.
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Question 1–6 pn




Net operating cash flows are the difference between cash receipts and cash disburs
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ements during a period of time from transactions related to providing goods and servic
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es to customers. Net operating cash flows may not be a good indicator of future cash flo
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ws because, by ignoring uncompleted transactions, they may not match the accomplish
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ments and sacrifices of the period.
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,Question 1–7 pn




GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) are a dynamic set of both broad
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and specific guidelines that a company should follow in measuring and reporting the i
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nformation in their financial statements and related notes. It is important that all comp
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anies follow GAAP so that investors can compare financial information across compan
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ies to make their resource allocation decisions.
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Question 1–8 pn




In 1934, Congress created the SEC and gave it the job of setting accounting and re
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porting standards for companies whose securities are publicly traded. The SEC has reta
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ined the power, but has relied on private sector bodies to create the standards. The curre
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nt private sector body responsible for setting accounting standards is the FASB.
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Question 1–9 pn




Auditors are independent, professional accountants who examine financial statem
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ents to express an opinion. The opinion reflects the auditors‘ assessment of the stateme
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nts' fairness, which is determined by the extent to which they are prepared in complianc
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e with GAAP. The auditor adds credibility to the financial statements, which increases
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the confidence of capital market participants relying on that information.
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Key provisions included in the text are:
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 Creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board pn pn pn pn pn pn pn




 Regulate types of non-audit audit services pn pn pn pn pn




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 Corporate executive accountability pn pn




 Addresses conflicts of interest for security analysts pn pn pn pn pn pn




 Internal control reporting and auditor opinion about controls
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Question 1–11 pn




New accounting standards, or changes in standards, can have significant differenti
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al effects on companies, investors and creditors, and other interest groups by causing re
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distribution of wealth. There also is the possibility that standards could harm the econo
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my as a whole by causing companies to change their behavior.
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Question 1–12 pn




The FASB undertakes a series of elaborate information gathering steps before issu
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ing an accounting standard to determine consensus as to the preferred method of accou
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nting, as well as to anticipate adverse economic consequences.
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Question 1–13 pn




The purpose of the conceptual framework is to guide the Board in developing acco
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unting standards by providing an underlying foundation and basic reasoning on which t
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o consider merits of alternatives. The framework does not prescribe GAAP.
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