Unit 1 Flashcards
Accounting Principles, Assumptions & Concepts (115 cards)
Accounting Principles Assumptions & Concepts- Chapter,HB?
Chapter 3
IFRS Preface: Conceptual Framework to Financial Reporting
ASPE: HB 1000, Financial Statement Concepts
What are the elements of a financial statement
Asset
Liability
Equity
Revenue - Increases economic resources
Expense - decreases economic resources
What is equity
It is an ownership interest in assets of a profit-oriented coy after deducting liabilities. Examples are capital, distribution surplus, and retained earnings
Analysis of GAAP vs Cash-based accounting ie
Cash vs Accrual-based accounting
Discuss :
Comparability
Understandability and
Timeliness of financial framework
The conceptual Framework
Handbook guide?
Chapter 4
IFRS Preface: Conceptual Framework to Financial Reporting
ASPE: HB 1000, Financial Statement Concepts
What is the purpose of the conceptual framework?
- To enable standard setters to develop standards based on consistent concepts
- To allow preparers to develop consistent policies where no standards exist
Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information (IFRS)
- Relevant
- Faithful representation
** Enhancing**
- Comparability
- Verifiable
- Timely
- Understandable
CUTV
Underlying assumptions of FR
- Economic entity
- Financial capital maintenance
- Proprietory
- Stable monetary unit
- Going-concern
- Time-period
Explain the underlying assumptions
Economic entity - Report only what belongs to the entity
Financial Capital Maintenance - A biz is maintained when the net assets at the end of the year exceeds the net assets at the beginning of yr
Propriety - After all assets are used to pay liabilities, the residual belongs to the owner/entity
Stable monetary unit - F/S prepared in a single currency
Going concern - Entity is expected to continue in business into the unforeseen future
Time period - The entity performance is reported in small periods - Mthly, qrtly, yearly
Attributes of relevance
- Capable of making a difference in decision making
- Information helps users predict future outcomes
- Information confirms or changes future outcomes
- Material enough that omitting, obscuring or mis stating could influence decision making
Attributes of faithful representation
It should :
- Faithfully represent substance over form and be
- Complete
- Neutral (be prudent when uncertain)
- Free from material error
How are elements of F/S measured?
How are elements of F/S measured
1. Historical cost
2. Current value
- Fair Value
- Value in use & fulfillment
- Current cost
Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information (ASPE)
- Understandability
- Relevance
- Predictive & feedback value
- timeliness - Reliability
- Representational faithfulness
- Verifiability
- Neutralism
- Conversatism - Comparability
What are the key differences in FS elements btw IFRS and ASPE?
Asset & Liability - IFRS does not define future benefits. ASPE does not define economic benefits.
Income & Expense - Gains & losses are commonly used Canadian definitions in ASPE. IFRS does not define gains & losses
Why the need for Conceptual Framework
- To provide a solid foundation for Accounting Standards
- To approach emerging issues in a consistent manner
Recommend whether a private coy should adopt ASPE or IFRS
- Public enterprises are mandated to apply IFRS
- Private coys can apply ASPE or elect IFRS
- The objectives of the F/S are important
- The users are usually investors and creditors
- ASPE framework is simpler, less onerous and easier to apply
- ASPE is for smaller businesses with less complexities in their transactions than public coys
- Smaller coys have less users placing reliance on their F/S than public coys
Emerging trends on ASPE
Annual improvement on
1500 -1st time adoption
1510 - Current assets & liabilities
1540 - Cash flow statements
3856 - Financial instruments
3041 - Agriculture (new WEF 2022)
Ammendments:
3400 - Revenue portion
3462 - Employee future benefits
What are Emerging trends on ASNPO
Annual improvement on
1501 - 1st time adoption
4449 - Combinations by NPOs (new WEF 2022)
Emerging trends on IFRS
Annual improvement on
IFRS 1 - First time adoption
IFRS 9 - Financial Instruments
IAS 41 - Agriculture
Amendments to
IAS 16 - PPE (proceeds b4 intended use)
IFRS 3 - Business combination/reference to conceptual framework
IAS 37 - Provisions, contingent liabilities & assets related to onerous contracts
WEF January 2023
IFRS 17 (Insurance contracts) replaces the existing IFRS 4
IFRS 1 - Amendments to Presentation of financial statements
What HB is Revenue Rec - ASPE
Chapter 17
ASPE: 3400, Revenue
What are the criteria to recognize revenue from
sale of goods
RCMP
Revenue from Sale of goods
1. Performance is achieved ( risks & rewards
transferred)
2. Measured reliably (revenue)
3. Collection is reasonably assured
What are the criteria to determine perfomance is achieved under revenue recognition
**RCMP PSS
Revenue from sale of goods
- Performance achieved
- Persuasive evidence of an arrangement
- Service rendered (delivery occured)
- Seller’s price is fixed/determinable
- Measured reliably
- Collection is reasonably assured
* Write about POC% or CC method
ASPE revenue recognition for services /contract
- Percentage of completion method (POC%)- Used when performance has more than one act and % to completion can be reliably measured, then use the basis of :
- Input (cost)
- Output (# of acts completed) or
- Extent of work done - Completed contract method (CC) - When it consists of a single act or the percentage of completion cannot be reliably measured
Revenue recognition criteria for
Interest, Royalties & Dividend
- Probable that economic benefits will flow to the entity
- It can be reliably measured
Interest : On a time proportion basis
Royalties : As they accrue
Dividend : Shareholders’ right to receive is established