Intermediate Financial Accounting

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Intermediate Financial
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by Glenn Arnold & Suzanne Kyle
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Intermediate Financial Accounting
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents iii
1 Review of Intro Financial Accounting 1
Chapter 1 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Adjusting and Closing Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Merchandising Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Inventory Costing Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 Bank Reconciliations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.5 Receivables Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.6 Long-Lived Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.7 Current and Long-Term Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.8 Statement of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Why Accounting? 5
Chapter 2 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 Definition and Information Asymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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2.2 Trade-Offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 How Are Standards Set? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.4 The Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4.1 The Objective of Financial Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.4.2 Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Information . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.4.3 Elements of Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.4.4 Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.5 Measurement Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.6 Capital Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.5 Challenges in Financial Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.7 IFRS/ASPE Key Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3 Financial Reporting 35
Chapter 3 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.1 Financial Reporting: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.2 Factors that Influence Financial Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2.1 Accounting Year-end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2.2 Changes in Accounting Estimates, Changes in Accounting Policy,
and Correction of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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3.3 Financial Statements and Their Interrelationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.3.1 Financial Statement Differences Between IFRS and ASPE . . . . . 47
3.4 Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.5 Statement of Changes in Equity (IFRS) and Statement of Retained Earn-
ings (ASPE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.6 Analysis of Statement of Income and Statement of Changes in Equity . . . 60
3.7 IFRS and ASPE Applicable Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4 Financial Reports – Statement of Financial Position and Statement of Cash
Flows 75
Chapter 4 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
4.1 Financial Reports: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
4.2 Statement of Financial Position/Balance Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
4.2.1 Disclosure Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
4.2.2 FactorsAffectingtheStatement ofFinancialPosition/Balance Sheet
(SFP/BS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.3 Statement of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.3.1 Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.3.2 Disclosure Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4.3.3 Interpreting the Statement of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
4.4 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5 Revenue 141
Chapter 5 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Chapter Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
5.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
5.2 Revenue Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
5.2.1 Risks, Rewards, and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
5.2.2 Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.2.3 Collectibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
5.2.4 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.3 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.3.1 Bundled Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.3.2 Consignment Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
5.3.3 Instalment Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
5.3.4 Barter Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
5.3.5 Long-Term Construction Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
5.4 Presentation and Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
5.5 IFRS 15: The New Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5.6 IFRS/ASPE Key Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162