Accounts receivable occur from credit sales to customers.
- Credit sales are recorded by crediting an Accounts Receivable.
- As long as a company accurately records total credit sales information, it is not necessary to have separate accounts for specific customers
- If a customer owes interest on accounts receivable, Interest Revenue is debited and Accounts Receivable is credited
- If a credit card sale is made, the seller can either debit Cash or debit Accounts receivable at the time of the sale depending on the type of credit card.
- Accounts receivable information for specific customers is important because it reveals
- A credit sale of $3,275 to a customer would result in
- Sellers allow customers to use credit cards
- A promissory note received from a customer in exchange for an account receivable
- The person who signs a note receivable and promises to pay the principal and interest is the
- A corporation is a legal entity separate from its owners
- c orporations are subject to substantially fewer regulations and laws than are proprietorships and partnerships
- Organization expenses of a corporation often include legal fees and promoter fees.
- The only way that a shareholder can affect the management of a corporation is to get elected to the corporation’s board of directors.
- Common shareholders always share equally with all other shareholders in all dividends
- The costs of bringing a corporation into existence, including legal fees, promoter fees, and amounts paid to obtain a charter are called:
- The right of common shareholders to protect their proportionate interest in a corporation by having the first opportunity to buy additional proportionate shares of common stock issued by the corporation is called a
- The board of directors of a corporation
- The number of shares that a corporation’s charter allows it to sell is referred to as
- Par value of a stock refers to the
- Long-term investments are usually held as an investment of cash for use in current operations
- Long-term investments can include funds earmarked for special purposes such as bond sinking funds.
- Bond sinking funds are examples of short-term investments
- Equity securities reflect a creditor relationship such as investments in notes, bonds, and certificates of deposit.
- Short-term investments are intended to be converted into cash within the longer of one year or the current operating cycle of the business, and are readily convertible to cash
- Long-term investments
- Short-term investments
- Long-term investments are reported in the
- NSC Corporation has invested in 10% of the outstanding stock of VC Corporation. NSC intends to actively manage this investment for profit. This investment is classified as
- Debt securities:
- The primary purpose of the statement of cash flows is to report all major cash receipts (inflows) and cash payments (outflows) during a period
- The statement of cash flows reports and proves the net change in cash for a reporting period
- To be classified as a cash equivalent, the only criterion an item must meet is that it must be readily convertible to a known amount of cash.
- The statement of cash flows explains the difference between the beginning and ending balances of cash and cash equivalents.
- Internal users of the statement of cash flows often use cash flow information to plan day-to-day operating activities and make long-term investment and financing decisions.
- A cash equivalent is an investment that.
- An investment that is readily convertible to a known amount of cash and that is sufficiently close to its maturity date so that its market value is relatively insensitive to interest rate changes is a(n)
- Activities that involve the production or purchase of merchandise and the sale of goods and services to customers, including expenditures related to administering the business, are classified as
- The appropriate section in the statement of cash flows for reporting the purchase of equipment for cash is.
- Which of the following items is reported on the statement of cash flows under financing activities?
- Financial statement analysis is the application of analytical tools to general-purpose financial statements and related data for making business decisions
- Financial statement analysis lessens the need for expert judgment.
- One purpose of financial statement analysis for internal users is to provide information helpful in improving the company’s efficiency and effectiveness in providing products and services.
- A company’s board of directors analyzes financial statements to assess future company prospects for making operating decisions.
- Evaluation of company performance can include comparison and/or assessment of:
- External users of financial information.
- Internal users of financial information.
- The building blocks of financial statement analysis include
- Financial reporting refers to:
- The ability to generate future revenues and meet long-term obligations is referred to as
- Cost accounting systems accumulate costs and then assign them to products or services.
- Cost accounting information is helpful to management in controlling costs but has no effect on pricing decisions.
- A company that produces a large number of standardized units would normally use a job order cost accounting system.
- Job order production systems would be appropriate for companies that produce compact disks or disposable cameras.
- A system of accounting for production operations that produces timely information about inventories and manufacturing costs per unit of product is a.
- In comparison to a general accounting system for a manufacturing company, a cost accounting system places an emphasis on:
- The two basic types of cost accounting systems are:
- A job order cost accounting system would best fit the needs of a company that makes:
- Dell Builders manufactures each house to customer specifications. It most likely would use:
- Target cost is calculated as:
- Process manufacturing usually reflects a manufacturer that produces large quantities of identical products.
- Equivalent units of production refer to the number of units that would be completed if all effort during a period had been applied only to those units that were started and completed in a period.
- Equivalent units of production are always the same as the total number of physical units finished during the period.
- Equivalent units of production is an engineering term used to describe the process by which one company attempts to manufacture units of a product that are equivalent to the product manufactured by a competitor.
- The process cost summary is an important managerial accounting report produced by a process cost accounting system.
- Which of the following characteristics does not usually apply to process manufacturing systems?
- Which of the following characteristics applies to process cost accounting but not to job order cost accounting?
- Equivalent units of production are equal to:
- Which of the following is the best explanation for why it is necessary to calculate equivalent units of production in a process costing environment?
- Which of the following isnot one of the four steps in accounting for production activity and assigning costs during a period under a process cost system?
- External users include lenders, shareholders, customers, and regulators.
- Internal users include lenders, shareholders, brokers and managers.
- The area of accounting aimed at serving the decision making needs of internal users is:
- All of the following regarding a Certified Public Accountant are except:
- The first step in the processing of a transaction is to analyze the transaction and source documents.
- Source documents provide evidence of business transactions and are the basis for accounting entries.
- An account is a record of increases and decreases in a specific asset, liability, equity, revenue, or expense item.
- Land and buildings are generally recorded in the same ledger account
- A fiscal year refers to an organization’s accounting period that spans twelve consecutive months or 52 weeks.
- Two main accounting principles used in accrual accounting are matching and full closure.
- Adjusting entries are necessary so that asset, liability, revenue, and expense account balances are correctly recorded.
- The matching principle does not aim to record expenses in the same accounting period as the revenue earned as a result of these expenses.
- Accounts that appear in the balance sheet are often called temporary (nominal) accounts.
- Closing revenue and expense accounts at the end of the accounting period serves to make the revenue and expense accounts ready for use in the next period.
- The first five steps in the accounting cycle include analyzing transactions, journalizing, posting, preparing an unadjusted trial balance, and recording adjusting entries.
- Current assets and current liabilities are expected to be used up or come due within one year or the company’s operating cycle whichever is longer.
- A merchandising company: .
- Cost of goods sold:.
- The following statements regarding gross profit are except:
- The following statements are regarding the operating cycle of a merchandising companyexcept
- Regardless of the inventory costing system used, cost of goods available for sale must be allocated at the end of the period between
- Costs included in the Merchandise Inventory account can include all of the followingexcept:
- Physical counts of inventory:.
- During a period of steadily rising costs, the inventory valuation method that yields the lowest reported net income is:
- The five fundamental principles of accounting information systems are.
- The basic components of an accounting information system include all of the followingexcept: Warehouses
- Source documents:
- An internal control system consists of all of the following policies and proceduresexcept ones designed to:
- The principles of internal control include:
100.A properly designed internal control system:
