ACCT5432: Quiz 1 - Week 1 & Week 2
Material Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
An analyst can find a company's accounting policies that require significant
judgement or estimates in:
A) both the footnotes to the financial statements and Management's Discussion and
Analysis.
B) both the footnotes and in the auditor's opinion.
C) only the footnotes. - Correct answer-A) both the footnotes to the financial
statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis
Identify what is meant by integrated and sustainability reports. - Correct answer-
Integrated and sustainability reports are reports outside the scope of the businesses
general profit making operations. These reports are made to report to external
stakeholders whom are affected by the business's operations. Content in these
reports include but are not and is not limited to social responsibility, environmental
factors and governance.
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,Identify the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and explain, in broad terms, the GRI
approach to sustainability reports. - Correct answer-The global reporting initiative
is a framework and benchmark for sustainability reporting. The report has an
objective to enhancing the quality, rigour and utility of sustainability reporting.
Firms must adhere to one of the two reporting guidelines core or comprehensive.
The core option means that companies are only required to report some
information about governance and ethics. Whilst the comprehensive option only
requires significantly more disclosures in both these areas. Below is a list of key
areas that the firm must disclose: • Materiality - Provides indicators to and reports
topics related to the firms ESR performance. • Stakeholder inclusiveness -
Engagement with stakeholders in the development of the reports. • Completeness -
All material information. • Sustainability Context - Adheres and provides metrics
relative to ecological and social limits.
Identify the limitations of accounting information. - Correct answer-Accounting
information largely consists of information with quantitative characteristics. These
characteristics have limitations and can be only useful it correctly understood.
Qualitative characteristics and assumptions behind these figures are just as
important. Without commercial acumen and knowledge of the market environment
it maybe difficult to identify, measure and make accurate assumptions for the
various phases of a business project. Below are some additional limitations to
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, accounting information: • Historical view - Past performance does not indicate
future performance. • Subjective valuation - Revaluing assets & good will. •
Information is limited to the accounting elements - These accounting elements
have strict definition and recognition criteria and may not cover other qualitative
aspects of the business's operations which maybe vital to the firm's operations.
What is meant by the expectation gap in relation to auditing? - Correct answer-The
expectations gap is the difference between the public expectations of how thorough
an audit has been (conflict of interest - fees) vs the actual reality of an audit.
Explain the main characteristics of the financial statements of a public company
and the role and meaning of consolidated financial statements. - Correct answer-·
The main characteristics of the financial statements of a public company include a
statement of comprehensive income (P&L Statement), changes in equity, balance
sheet and a cashflow statement.
· Consolidated financial statements refer to the joint reporting of all the company's
subsidiaries and associate companies under one controlling entity. The role of this
statement is to show the performance of the entity in aggregate over the reporting
period.
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Material Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
An analyst can find a company's accounting policies that require significant
judgement or estimates in:
A) both the footnotes to the financial statements and Management's Discussion and
Analysis.
B) both the footnotes and in the auditor's opinion.
C) only the footnotes. - Correct answer-A) both the footnotes to the financial
statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis
Identify what is meant by integrated and sustainability reports. - Correct answer-
Integrated and sustainability reports are reports outside the scope of the businesses
general profit making operations. These reports are made to report to external
stakeholders whom are affected by the business's operations. Content in these
reports include but are not and is not limited to social responsibility, environmental
factors and governance.
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,Identify the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and explain, in broad terms, the GRI
approach to sustainability reports. - Correct answer-The global reporting initiative
is a framework and benchmark for sustainability reporting. The report has an
objective to enhancing the quality, rigour and utility of sustainability reporting.
Firms must adhere to one of the two reporting guidelines core or comprehensive.
The core option means that companies are only required to report some
information about governance and ethics. Whilst the comprehensive option only
requires significantly more disclosures in both these areas. Below is a list of key
areas that the firm must disclose: • Materiality - Provides indicators to and reports
topics related to the firms ESR performance. • Stakeholder inclusiveness -
Engagement with stakeholders in the development of the reports. • Completeness -
All material information. • Sustainability Context - Adheres and provides metrics
relative to ecological and social limits.
Identify the limitations of accounting information. - Correct answer-Accounting
information largely consists of information with quantitative characteristics. These
characteristics have limitations and can be only useful it correctly understood.
Qualitative characteristics and assumptions behind these figures are just as
important. Without commercial acumen and knowledge of the market environment
it maybe difficult to identify, measure and make accurate assumptions for the
various phases of a business project. Below are some additional limitations to
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, accounting information: • Historical view - Past performance does not indicate
future performance. • Subjective valuation - Revaluing assets & good will. •
Information is limited to the accounting elements - These accounting elements
have strict definition and recognition criteria and may not cover other qualitative
aspects of the business's operations which maybe vital to the firm's operations.
What is meant by the expectation gap in relation to auditing? - Correct answer-The
expectations gap is the difference between the public expectations of how thorough
an audit has been (conflict of interest - fees) vs the actual reality of an audit.
Explain the main characteristics of the financial statements of a public company
and the role and meaning of consolidated financial statements. - Correct answer-·
The main characteristics of the financial statements of a public company include a
statement of comprehensive income (P&L Statement), changes in equity, balance
sheet and a cashflow statement.
· Consolidated financial statements refer to the joint reporting of all the company's
subsidiaries and associate companies under one controlling entity. The role of this
statement is to show the performance of the entity in aggregate over the reporting
period.
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