Financial Accounting (13th Ed.) – Complete Solution Manual | Verified Answers 2025/2026

SOLUTION MANUAL
Financial Accounting, 13th Edition
by C William Thomas and Wendy M. Tietz
Chapters 1 - 12, Complete

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,Chapter 1
The Financial Statements

Ethics Check

(5-10 min.) EC 1-1

a. Objectivity and independence
b. Due care
c. Integrity
d. Integrity

, Short Exercises

(10 min.) S 1-1

a. Corporation, limited partners of a Limited-liability
partnership (LLP) and Limited-liability company (LLC). If any of
these businesses fails and cannot pay its liabilities, creditors
cannot force the owners to pay the business’s debts from the
owners’ personal assets. Creditors can go after the general
partner of a limited liability partnership.

b. Proprietorship. There is a single owner of the business, so the
owner is answerable to no other owner.

c. Partnership. If the partnership fails and cannot pay its liabilities,
creditors can force the partners to pay the business’s debts
from their personal assets. A partnership affords more
protection for creditors than a proprietorship because there are
two or more owners toshare this liability.




(5 min.) S 1-2


1. The entity assumption applies.
2. Application of the entity assumption will separate Osmond’s
personal assets from the assets of Simple Treats, Inc. This will
help Osmond, investors, and