Financial Flashcards

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What is the purpose of GAAP

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provide guidance to standard setters to develop high quality standards

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objective of GAAP standards and regulations

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provide financial information about companies useful to capital providers and decision making for investor who want to predict financial performance

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Releveance

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reporting processes must predict value and provide relevant information to decisions being made

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Faithful Representation

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when there is an agreement between a measure or description and the phenomenon it attempts to represent

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Consistency

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comparing financial statements of the same company from different reporting periods with the same methods

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Comparability

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ability to compare financial results from different entities

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Verifiability

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different, knowledgeable, and independent measures would reach census regarding whether information is a faithful representation

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Timeliness

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info is timely available to users early enough to be able to use in decision making

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9
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Qualitative characteristics of GAAP

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Relevance
Faithful Representation
Comparability
Consistency
Verifiability
Timeliness
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10
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Elements of Financial Statements

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Assets
Liabilities
Equity
Investments by Owners
Distribution to Owners
Comprehensive Income
Revenues
Expenses
Gains
Losses
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Investments by Owners

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increases in equity of a particular enterprise resulting in transfers from other entities to increase ownership

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Distribution to Owners

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decreases in equity of an enterprise resulting from transfers to owners

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Comprehensive Income

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changes in equity of an enterprise during a period from transactions and includes all changes in equity except from investments and distributions from owners

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Revenues

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inflows, other enhancements of assets, or settlements of liabilities during a period of delivering goods or services

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Expenses

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outflows or other use of assets during a specific period of delivering goods or services

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Gains

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increases in equity from peripheral or incidental transactions of an entity

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17
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Losses

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represent decreases in equity arising from peripheral or incidental transactions

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GAAP Assumptions

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Economic Entity
Going concerns
Periodicity
Monetary Unit

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Economic Entity Assumption

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presumes all economic events can be identified with a particular economic entity

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20
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Going Concern Assumption

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assumes a business will operate indefinitely

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Periodicity Assumption

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allows the life of a company to be divided into artificial time periods to provide timely information

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Monetary Unit Assumption

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states that financial statement elements should be measured in a particular monetary unit

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23
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What do Debits do

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Increase Assets
Decrease Liabilities
Decrease Shareholder Equity

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What do Credits do

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decrease assets
increase liabilities
increase shareholder equity

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Income Statement

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reports the business’s revenues, expenses, and net income for a specified period of time

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26
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Alt names for income statement

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P&L/statement of operations

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Balance Sheet

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reports the company’s assets, liabilities and owners’ equity as of a specified date

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Alt names for Balance Sheet

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statement of financial condition/position

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2 types of assets

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current and long term

fixed and intangible

30
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Basic accounting equation

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A = L + OE

31
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2 main sources of OE

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paid in capital

retained earnings

32
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multistep income statement

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revenues
(returns, discounts)
---
net sales
(COGS)
---
Gross profits
(ops expense)
---
EBIT (aka operating income)
(interest expense)
---
EBT
(taxes)
---
net income
33
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statement of cashflows sections

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operating activities
investing activities
financing activities

34
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operating activites

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inflows and outflows of cash related to the transactions determining net income

35
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cash inflow examples

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sales to customer of goods and services

interest and dividends from investments

36
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cash outflow examples

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paying for purchases of inventory, salaries, ops expenses, interest on debt and income tax

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the two methods of preparing the ops activities

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direct and indirect

38
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direct ops activities prep

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shows the effect of cash on each activity

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indirect ops activities prep

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income from accrual basis accounting to cash basis by removing non cash items from net income

40
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investing cashflow examples

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purchase and sale of long term assets like buildings, land, equip, intangibles
any investment buy or sale

41
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financing activities examples

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inflow - when cash is borrowed or invested

outflow - when cash is paid back or distributed to owners

42
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do notes receivable or accts receivable generate interest

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notes rec.

43
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Inventory

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cost of acquiring a good that isnt sold

shown on balance sheet

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sales revenue

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selling price of all goods sold to customers

shown on income statement

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COGS

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total COaGS to customers

expense recorded on the income statement

46
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Periodic inventory system

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inv. records are updated at the end of the period

47
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Revenue Recognition Steps

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Identify Contract
Identify seller
Determine prices
allocate transaction price to performance obligation
recognize rev when performance obligation is satisfied

48
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Valuation Methods

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Periodic
Perpetual
Specific ID
FIFO
LIFO
Weighted Avg.
49
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Periodic valuation

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specific sale date are unknown, use beginning inv, purchases, ending inv. to calc total COGS

50
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Perpetual Valuation

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dates of sale matter, each sale date, COGS must be calculated

51
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Specific ID valuation

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individually IDs and records the cost of each item sold (cars, homes, high end goods)

52
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FIFO

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oldest items are sold first

:(grocery)

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LIFO

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newest items are sold first (rock yard)

54
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Weighted Avg.

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Calc weighted average cost per unit

(COGS avail for sale. # units avail for sale

55
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Capitalization

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recording purchases as assets and not as expenses in the current period

56
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ordinary repairs and maint

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relatively small and recurring expenditures that maintain normal ops, do not increase productivity

57
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extraordinary repairs and maint

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large and infrequent expenses, overhauls, replacements, that may increase productivity and useful life

58
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Tangible asset

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Physical substances, PPE, depreciate

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Intangible asset

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no physical substance, patent, copyright, trademark, amortized

60
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depreciation

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spreading historical cost of a fixed asset over the assets estimated useful life

61
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cash basis accounting

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revenue is recorded when cash is received

expenses are recorded when cash is paid

62
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accrual basis accounting

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revenues are recorded when earned or when services are performed REGARDLESS of when cash received
expenses are recorded when incurred or become liable for them REGARDLESS when cash paid

63
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amortization

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lower the book value of a loan or an intangible asset over a set period of time

64
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depreciation methods

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straight line
unit of production
declining balance

65
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straight line method

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(cost - residual value) / useful life

66
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units of production

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(cost - residual value) / (Actual production / estimated total production)

67
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declining balance

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(cost - accumulated) x (2 / useful life)