AICPA CPA Financial Accounting and Reporting - FAR FREE EXAM DUMPS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

On January 2, 1993, Quo, Inc. hired Reed to be its controller. During the year, Reed, working closely with
Quo's president and outside accountants, made changes in accounting policies, corrected several errors
dating from 1992 and before, and instituted new accounting policies.
Quo's 1993 financial statements will be presented in comparative form with its 1992 financial statements.
This question represents one of Quo's transactions. List B represents the general accounting treatment
required for these transactions. These treatments are:
. Cumulative effect approach - Include the cumulative effect of the adjustment resulting from the
accounting change or error correction in the 1993 financial statements, and do not restate the 1992
financial statements.
. Retroactive or retrospective restatement approach - Restate the 1992 financial statements and adjust
1 992 beginning retained earnings if the error or change affects a period prior to 1992.
. Prospective approach - Report 1993 and future financial statements on the new basis but do not restate
1 992 financial statements.
Item to Be Answered
Quo changed from LIFO to FIFO to account for its finished goods inventory.
List B (Select one)

According to the FASB's conceptual framework, the process of reporting an item in the financial
statements of an entity is:

The following costs were incurred by Griff Co., a manufacturer, during 1992: What amount of these costs
should be reported as general and administrative expenses for 1992?

How should the effect of a change in accounting estimate be accounted for?

On January 2, 1993, Quo, Inc. hired Reed to be its controller. During the year, Reed, working closely with
Quo's president and outside accountants, made changes in accounting policies, corrected several errors
dating from 1992 and before, and instituted new accounting policies.
Quo's 1993 financial statements will be presented in comparative form with its 1992 financial statements.
This question represents one of Quo's transactions. List A represents possible clarifications of these
transactions as: a change in accounting principle, a change in accounting estimate, a correction of an
error in previously presented financial statements, or neither an accounting change nor an accounting error.
Item to Be Answered
Quo manufactures heavy equipment to customer specifications on a contract basis. On the basis that it is
preferable, accounting for these long-term contracts was switched from the completed-contract method to
the percentage-of-completion method.
List A (Select one)

FASB's conceptual framework explains both financial and physical capital maintenance concepts. Which
capital maintenance concept is applied to currently reported net income, and which is applied to
comprehensive income?

Grum Corp., a publicly-owned corporation, is subject to the requirements for segment reporting. In its
income statement for the year ended December 31, 1991, Grum reported revenues of $50,000,000,
operating expenses of $47,000,000, and net income of $3,000,000. Operating expenses include payroll
costs of $ 15,000,000. Grum's combined identifiable assets of all industry segments at December 31,
1 991, were $40,000,000.
In its 1991 financial statements, Grum should disclose major customer data if sales to any single
customer amount to at least:

Which of the following must be included in a company's summary of significant accounting policies in the
notes to the financial statements?

According to the FASB conceptual framework, which of the following statements conforms to the
realization concept?

The following items were among those that were reported on Lee Co.'s income statement for the year
ended December 31, 1989:

The office space is used equally by Lee's sales and accounting departments. What amount of the above
listed items should be classified as general and administrative expenses in Lee's multiple-step income
statement?

Lore Co. changed from the cash basis of accounting to the accrual basis of accounting during 1994. The
cumulative effect of this change should be reported in Lore's 1994 financial statements as a:

The summary of significant accounting policies should disclose the: