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Income Stmt

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Describe GAAP   show
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AICPA   show
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show APB abolished and replaced by FASB-1972.  
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SFAS   show
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Interpretations   show
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show (FASB 3) - provide guidance on accounting and reporting problems (category B)  
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Stmts of Financial Accounting Concepts   show
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show Rules of Conduct per AICPA that CPA cannot express opinion on FS if not in conformity with GAAP.. root of Code or Prof. Conduct (203). FASB stmts, ARBs & APB Opinions constitute accounting principles.  
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FASB Accounting Standards Codification   show
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Category A GAAP   show
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BOSSII   show
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show FASB Technical Bullteins; AICPA Industry Audit and Accounting Guides (if cleared by FASB); AICPA Stmts of Position (if cleared by FASB)  
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show AICPA Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) Practice Bulletins (if cleared by FASB); Consensus positions of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force; Topics discussed in Appendeix D of EITF Abstracts  
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Category D GAAP   show
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SFAC No. 1 - Objectives of Financial Reporting by Business Enterprises   show
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show 1. information useful in investment and credit decisions. 2. information useful in assessing cash flow prospects. 3. information about enterprise resources, claims to those resources, and changes in them.  
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SFAC 2 Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information   show
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show 1. Understandability 2. Decision Usefulness 3. Primary Qualities 4. Secondary Characteristics 5. Constraints  
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HAQ - 1. Understandability   show
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HAQ - 2. Decision Usefulness   show
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show a. Relevance - 1. predictive value 2. feedback value 3. timeliness b. reliability - 1. neutrality 2. repr. faithfulness (validity) 3. verifiability  
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show 1. comparability 2. consistency  
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HAQ - 5. Constraints   show
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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (pg 37). tell items included and not included   show
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treatment of antitrust legal case loss treatment of workers strike loss   show
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Comprehensive disclosure rules   show
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When/how is extraordinary gain recorded?   show
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show no recorded in interim's net income, recorded at beginning of YEAR retained earnings is restated  
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what are the general rules on reporting of a segment?   show
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show allocations for general operating costs and interest, etc should not be made solely for purposes of segment disclosures. the operating profit by segments is based on the measure of profit reported to the "chief operating decision maker"  
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deficits accumulated during development stage: start up/organizational costs:   show
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Financial Capital   show
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show Accounting principle change (retrospective application effect on retained earnings) - the cumulative effect of a change in accting principle is shown on the stmt of retianed earnings as an adjmnt of the beginning balance of the earliest yr presented  
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show Income from continuing operations-although likely an infrequent event, not considered unusual in nature  
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show Extraordinary item - deemed extraordinary event in a business - unusual in nature and happens infrequently.  
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Material gain on sale of a factory building   show
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show Income from continuing operations-considered change in accounting estimate effected by a change in accounting principle. Reported prospectively thru income from cont. ops.  
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show Discontinued operations - results of operations of a component of an entity will be reported in the discontinued operations section of the income stmt if component is deemed to have met all criteria for the "held for sale" classification  
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show Income from continuing operations-infrequent and likely material, but not considered extraordinary, as it is not unusual.  
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show Income from continuing operations-dress line in womens clothing would not qualify as a component so it cannot be a discontinued item.  
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how to define a component of a business in regard to discontinuing an operation   show
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show Income from continuing operations - change in service life of an asset is a change in estimate, which is implemented in the current year and reported in the income from continuing operations section of I/S  
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show Income from continuing operations - common mgmt strategy of a company, transaction not deemed to be unusual.  
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Destruction of a warehouse by an earthquake in Wisconsin (state that rarely has earthquake)   show
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Material write-down of inventory -   show
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Loss on sale of a subsidiary   show
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show freaking draw one  
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