Complete Solution Manual for Intermediate Accounting, 11th Edition

Complete Solution Manual for Intermediate Accounting, 11th Edition Solutions Manual, Chapter 2 2–1 © McGraw Hill LLC. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw Hill LLC. Question 1–1 Financial accounting is concerned with providing relevant financial information about various kinds of organizations to different types of external users. The primary focus of financial accounting is on the financial information provided by profitoriented companies to their present and potential investors and creditors. Question 1–2 Resources are efficiently allocated if they are given to enterprises that will use them to provide goods and services desired by society and not to enterprises that will waste them. The capital markets are the mechanism that fosters this efficient allocation of resources. Question 1–3 Two extremely important variables that must be considered in any investment decision are the expected rate of return and the uncertainty or risk of that expected return. Question 1–4 In the long run, a comp