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 2.9BE
Here are some qualitative characteristics of useful accounting information:
1. Predictive value
2. Neutral
3. Verifiable
4. Timely
Match each qualitative characteristic to one of the following statements.
_____ (a) Accounting information should help provide accurate expectations about future events.
_____ (b) Accounting information cannot be selected, prepared, or presented to favor one set of interested users over another.
_____ (c) The quality of information that occurs when independent observers, using the same methods, obtain similar results.
_____ (d) Accounting information must be available to decision-makers before it loses its capacity to influence their decisions.
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1. An accounting information system should be designed to provide information that is useful. To be useful the information must be:
a. qualitative rather than quantitative.
b. unique and unavailable through other sources.
c. historical in nature and not purport to predict the future.
d. marginal between two alternatives.
e. relevant, accurate, and timely.
Indicate whether the following statements about the conceptual framework are true or false. If false, provide a brief explanation supporting your position.
a. The fundamental qualitative characteristics that make accounting information useful are relevance and verifiability.
b. Relevant information only has predictive value, confirmatory value, or both.
c. Information that is a faithful representation is characterized as having predictive or confirmatory value.
d. Comparability pertains only to the reporting of information in a similar manner for different companies.
e. Verifiability is solely an enhancing characteristic for faithful representation.
f. In preparing financial reports, it is assumed that users of the reports have reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities.
Which of the following is not a major challenge facing the accounting profession?
a. Nonfinancial measurements.
b. Timeliness.
c. Accounting for hard assets.
d. Forward-looking information.
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