QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fundamental Accounting Equation - ANS Assets = Liabilities + Owners' Equity
What are the two components of stockholder's equity? - ANS Common Stock and Retained
Earnings
Current Ratio - ANS Current Asset / Current Liabilities
Quick Ratio - ANS (Cash+Short Term Investment + Net Rec)/Current Liabilities
Debt Ratio - ANS Total Liabilities/Total Assets
Working Capital - ANS Current Assets - Current Liabilities
What does the current ratio show? - ANS If the company has assets to cover near-term
liabilities
What does quick ratio show? - ANS How fast a company can pay off debts
What does working capital show? - ANS How much extra resources a company has
What does debt ratio measure? - ANS The long-term capability of the company
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,What is the group that creates accounting standards? - ANS Financial Accounting Standards
Board
What gives the board of directors the right to change a company's CEO? - ANS The
stockholders elect the B of D and give the board the right to hire and fire executives
What 3 things do you need to recognize revenue according to the revenue recognition concept?
- ANS Implicit or explicit agreement, known price, substantial effort to complete transaction
What is the purpose of adjusting entries? - ANS To assign revenue and expenses to their
correct period. (There is no trigger event). Classified as whether to precede or follow the flow
of cash
Accrual - ANS revenue or expense precedes the cash flow
Deferral - ANS revenue or expense follows the cash flow
What is the revenue concept? - ANS When and how much to record (implicit or explicit
agreement, known price, substantial effort to complete requirements to sell)
What is the matching concept? - ANS Expenses recorded in the same period that any
revenue associated with teh expenses is generated
When to recognize revenues and expenses under cash accounting? - ANS When there is an
exchange of cash
When to recognize revenues and expenses under accrual accounting - ANS When earned
(economic performance)
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, When can you use reversing entries? - ANS When in the course of the adjusting process you
increase an asset or liability account
Where do we close dividends - ANS Retained Earnings
What is double taxation? - ANS Double taxation occurs only in corporations.
Corporation pays tax on its net income. Then, when it pays dividends, the shareholders are
taxed on the dividend income they receive. Therefore, the same money has been taxed twice,
by the corporation and the shareholder
How do you compute gross margin? - ANS Sales - COGS = GM
What type of account is COGS? - ANS Expense account
What is COGS? - ANS Cost of goods sold represents the price you paid for the goods that you
sold. It is an expense account and closed to income summary.
At the end of October, XYZ's bank statement arrives. When preparing the bank
reconciliation, it is discovered that there were deposits in transit of $2,000, an NSF check for
$200, outstanding checks for $1,400, and a bank service charge of $15.
If the ledger account
cash balance on 10/31 was $9,800, what should be the correct cash balance after reconciling
the cash account?
a. $9,800
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