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Chapter 1 - Financial Statements Flashcards

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Business organization types

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  • Proprietorship
  • Partnership
  • LLC
  • Corporation
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Proprietorship

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one owner, personally liable

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Partnership

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two or more owners; general partners personally liable, limited are not

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LLC

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members, not personally liable

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Corporation

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stockholders, not personally liable

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GAAP

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

formulated by FASB

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IFRS

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International Financial Reporting Standards

set by IASB

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FASB

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Financial Accounting Standards Board

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IASB

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International Accounting Standards Board

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Fundamental Qualitative Characteristics

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  • relevance

* faithful representation

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relevance

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capable of making a difference to a decision maker, having predictive or confirming value

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material

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important enough to the informed user so that, if it were omitted or erroneous, it would make a difference in the user’s decision

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faithful representation

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reliable, and focused on the economic substance of a transaction, event, or circumstance

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Enhancing Qualitative Characteristics

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  • comparability
  • verifiability
  • timeliness
  • understandability
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entity assumption

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assumes that an organization stands apart as a separate economic unity

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continuity assumption (going-concern)

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assumes that an entity will continue to operate long enough to use existing assets

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historical cost principle

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assets should be recorded at their actual cost, measured on the date of purchase

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stable-monetary-unit assumption

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assumes that the purchasing power of a monetary unit is stable over time, ignores inflation

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assets

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economic resources that are expected to produce future benefit

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liabilities

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“outsider claims”

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owner’s equity (or capital, or stockholders’ equity)

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“insider claims”

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fundamental accounting equation

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Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity

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stockholders’ equity

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Stockholders’ Equity = Paid-in Capital + Retained Earnings

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paid-in capital

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the amount stockholders have invested in the corporation; basic component is common stock

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retained earnings
amount earned by income-producing activities kept for use by the business
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revenues
inflows of resources that increase retained earnings by delivering goods or services to customers
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expenses
resource outflows that decrease retained earnings due to operations
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dividends
distributions to stockholders of assets (usually cash) generated by net income, which decrease retained earnings
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dividends are not expenses
never affect net income | direct reductions of retained earnings
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profit
excess of revenue over expenses
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net income
when total revenues exceed total expenses
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net loss
when total expenses exceed total revenues
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net income equation
Net Income = Revenues – Expenses
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exhibit 1-5
memorize
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financial statements list
1. Income Statement 2. Statement of Retained Earnings 3. Balance Sheet 4. Statement of Cash Flows
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Income Statement
measures operating performance, reporting revenues and expenses for the period
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Income Statement structure
Revenues (–) COGS = Gross profit (–) Operating expenses = Income from operations (–) Net other income and expense = Income before taxes (–) Income tax expense = Net income [Compared for two or more periods]
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Statement of Retained Earnings
shows what a company did with its net income
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Statement of Retained Earnings structure
Retained earnings (P-2) (+) Net income (P-1) (–) Cash dividends (P-1) = Retained earnings (P-1) (–) Net income (P) (–) Cash dividends (P) = Retained earnings (P)
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Balance Sheet
measures financial position using assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity at a moment in time
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Balance Sheet structure
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Statement of Cash Flows
measures cash receipts and payments, using operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities
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Statement of Cash Flows structure
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accounting
the information system that measures business activities, processes that information into reports and financial statements, and communicates the results to decision makers
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board of directors
group elected by stockholders to set policy for a corporation and to appoint its officers
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capital
another name for the owner's equity of a business
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common stock
the most basic form of capital stock
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corporation
a business owned by stockholders; a legal entity, an "artificial person"
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current asset
an asset that is expected to be converted to cash, sold, or consumed during the next 12 months, or within the business's normal operating cycle if longer than a year
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current liability
a debt due to be paid within one year or within the entity's operating cycle if the cycle is longer than one year
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deficit
negative balance in retained earnings caused by net losses over a period of years
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dividends
distributions (usually cash) by a corporation to its stockholders
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entity
an organization or a section of an organization that, for accounting purposes, stands apart from other organizations and individuals as a separate economic unit
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ethics
standards of right and wrong that transcend economic and legal boundaries
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expenses
decrease in retained earnings that results from operations; the cost of doing business; opposite of revenues
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fair value
the amount that a business could sell an asset for, or the amount that a business could pay to settle a liability
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financial statements
business documents that report financial information about a business entity to decision makers
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financing activities
activities that obtain from investors and creditors the cash needed to launch and sustain the business
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investing activities
activities that increase or decrease the long-term assets available to the business
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long-term debt
a liability that falls due beyond one year from the date of the financial statements
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net earnings
another name for net income
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net profit
another name for net income
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operating activities
activities that create revenue or expense in the entity's major line of business
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statement of financial position
another name for the balance sheet
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statement of operations
another name for the income statement
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stock
shares into which the owners' equity of a corporation is divided

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