Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 8th Edition
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781118953808
Author: Paul D. Kimmel, Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.3DIE
The following characteristics, assumptions, principles, and constraint guide the FASB when it creates accounting standards.
Relevance | Periodicity assumption |
Faithful representation | Going concern assumption |
Comparability | Historical cost principle |
Consistency | Full disclosure principle |
Monetary unit assumption | Materiality |
Economic entity assumption | Cost constraint |
Match each item above with a description below.
- 1. Items not easily quantified in dollar terms are not reported in the financial statements.
- 2. Accounting information must be complete, neutral, and free from error.
- 3. Personal transactions are not mixed with the company’s transactions.
- 4. The cost to provide information should be weighed against the benefit that users will gain from haring the information available.
- 5. A company’s use of the same accounting principles from year to year.
- 6. Assets are recorded and reported at original purchase price.
- 7. Accounting information should help users predict future events, and should confirm or correct prior expectations.
- 8. The life of a business can be divided into artificial segments of time.
- 9. The reporting of all information that would make a difference to financial statement users.
- 10. The judgment concerning whether an item’s size makes it likely to influence a decision-maker.
- 11. Assumes a business will remain in operation for the foreseeable future.
- 12. Different companies use the same accounting principles.
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