CFA Level 1 Exam 1 || With Questions & Answers (100% Accurate)

CFA Level 1 Exam 1 || With Questions & Answers (100% Accurate) CFA Level 1 Exam 1 || With Questions & Answers (100% Accurate) According to the IFRS what are the 5 qualities of financial information that improve reliability - ANSWER - faithful representation, substance over form, prudence, neutrality, completeness According to IFRS what condition must be met for revenue recognition to occur? - ANSWER - Costs can be reliably measured A company accrued wages of $2,000 and collected accounts receivable of $10,000. What best describes the effect of these two transactions on the company? - ANSWER - Current ratio will decrease. Accruing wages increases both current liabilities and expenses, but collecting receivables has no effect on current assets or sales therefore the current ratio and net income both decrease. A company had 100,000 shares outstanding on 1 Jan 2009. The company has no plans to issue additional shares or purchase treasury shares during the year, but is planning either a two-for-one stock split or a 100 percent stock dividend on 1 July. The number of shares used to determine eps at 31 Dec 2009 is - ANSWER - 200,000 for both the stock split and the stock dividend. Stock dividends and splits are treated in the same way for purposes of determining weighted average number of shares outstanding the adj in the # of shares is made as if the stock split or dividend occurred at the beginning of the year. Under IFRS the preparation of a complete set of financial statements is best described as a: - ANSWER - general requirement for financial statements. A company issued bonds in 2009 that mature in 2019. The measurement basis that will most likely be used on the 2009 balance sheet for the bonds is: - ANSWER - Amortized Cost Bonds payable issued by a company are financial liabilities that are measured at amortized cost. What features are unique to financial statements in IFRS - ANSWER - Noncurrent Assets and noncurrent liabilities are listed before current assets and current liabilities. Also, minority interest must be shown as a component of equity. What features are unique to financial statements in U.S. GAAP - ANSWER - Current assets and current liabilities are listed before noncurrent assets and noncurrent liabilities. Minority interest is listed separately from equity or liabilities. An analyst makes the appropriate adjustments to the financial statements of retail companies that are lessees using a substantial number of operating leases. Compared to ratios computed from the unadjusted statements, the ones computed from the adjusted statements would most likely be higher for: debt to equity or interest coverage? - ANSWER - The debt to equity ratio but not the interest coverage ratio. The adjustments to convert operating leases would increase the amount of total debt in the debt-equity ratio thus increasing the ratio; the portion of the lease payments estimated to be lease interest expense would lower the interest coverage ratio. To gain insight into what portion of a company's assets is liquid, an analyst will most likely use