Chapter 4 Flashcards

(42 cards)

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Performance is measured with

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Income statement –> ASPE and Statement of comprehensive income –> IFRS

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overall objective of I/S

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Provide relevant information (feedback value and predictive value) with

  1. past performance/profitability (over period of time)
  2. Assist in assessing cash flows
  3. Assess risk (want profit mostly from operations)
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high earnings quality when

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  1. content: unbiased, faithfully represented, earnings are sustainable (from main ops)
  2. Presentation: clear, concise, understandable, no attempt to disguise information
  3. other: over a long-term, a company’s earnings must be highly correlated to its cash flow from operations
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Shortcomings of income statement

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  1. A lot of estimates are used (tradeoff of increase relevance and less reliable)
  2. Choice of accounting policies can affect the numbers –> lead to bias and managing earnings
  3. some items don’t show at all if they cannot be measured or estimated reasonably
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Statement of comprehensive income format

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  1. Net Income/Loss: A) Continuing operations (pre tax + line for tax expense) B)Discontinued operations (net of tax) C) income taxes D) Earning per share
  2. Other comprehensive income
  3. Comprehensive income (1+2)
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Two formats for income statement

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  1. single step

2. multi step

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Single step

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combines all revenues and combines all expenses but does not show relationships between expenses and revenues

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Multi-step

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detailed and elaborate, better because it shows more

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Expenses by nature or function

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both allowed under both ASPE and IFRS; both will show the same net income. Under IFRS, when one is used the other is disclosed.

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Expenses by nature

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input costs: what money was spent on. relates to type of expense: depreciation, purchase of materials (not concerned with function)

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Expense by function

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output costs: relates to activities the expenditure was used for. I.e. activity production, expense COGS

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Infrequent or unusual items

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in continuing operations as non-operating, shown before taxes, under ASPE will be under management’s control
under IFRS may or may not be under management control

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Discontinued operations

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component of a business that has been disposed of or classified as held for sale (net of tax)

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What constitutes disc ops ASPE

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  1. Single asset generating cash flows
  2. Multiple assets generating cash flows (CGU), but not major line of business
  3. Major line of business or geographical area
  4. Business bought with a view to sell
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What constitutes disc ops IFRS

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  1. Major line of business or geographical area

2. Business bought with a view to sell

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Once criteria for discontinued operations are met

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operations sold by the end of operating period or classified as Asset held for sale.

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Showing discontinued operations shows

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representational faithfulness, because the user knows not to expect income from this stream in the future

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Asset held for sale

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may or may not be discontinued operations: selling non-current assets or a group of them sold together as CGU

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To be considered held must

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  1. authorize plan to sell
  2. available for immediate sale
  3. actively looking for a buyer
  4. probable sale within a year
  5. assets priced to sell
  6. no planned changes
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assets held for sale are carried at

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lower of FV less costs to sell or cost (write down may be required if value is below cost

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once classified as held for sale, depreciation

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stops being counted because they are no longer being used

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high requirements for assets held for sale because

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discourage temporarily categorizing concurrent assets as current to bump up the current ratio

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Declassification of assets held for sale

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should be recategorized at lower of: FV less costs to sell and carrying value if depreciation had continued normally

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Constructive obligation

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implicit obligation of uncertain timing or amount due to a company’s past practice or actions that may have created expectations on part of the public –> future costs that are uncertain

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Failure to recognize the constructive obligation
compromise the representational faithfulness of the statements
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Provision (IFRS term)
reliably estimable liability of a probable cost that will arise due to a past actions (lawsuit)
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Classification of asset held for sale on B/S
ASPE: non-current or current IFRS: current
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abandoned assets
carried at lower of cost or fair value less costs to sell
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depreciation of abandoned assets
stops
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abandoned assets are not classified as
current, because no plan to sell them
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idle assets
temporarily not being used
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depreciation of idle assets
continue depreciating them
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presentation of discontinued operations (2 parts in one line)
1. gain or loss from sale of asset or re-class to asset held for sale (net of tax) 2. operating profit or loss from the year (net of tax)
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Restructurings
you could show separately restructuring plans (layoffs) and changes to the business model relocation. companies may accrue certain losses on these if: 1. restructuring program in place 2. significantly alter the manner in which business is conducted / scope of the company's business
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OCI
gains and losses that are unrealized and bypass the income statement and go to equity (could be called reserves or surplus account)
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Earnings per share
Net income - preferred dividends/WA #shares
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WA #shares
#shares last year + #shares this year / 2
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fully diluted shares
effect of conversion of hybrid securities
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Statement of changes in equity
IFRS only: show how you go from beginning to ending equity for all amounts including retained earnings
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link between statement of comprehensive income and B/S
Net income --> Retained earnings | OCI --> AOCI
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Accounting income
Income statement: measures wealth via a transaction based approach (unrealized gains and losses are not taken in account, once realized they will go to income)
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Economic income
measures changes in wealth by including accounting income and unrealized gains and losses