Flashcards: Accounting Standards Framework and IAS — 84 cards

What are International Accounting Standards?

Rules for measuring transactions and disclosing financial information.

What is the aim of accounting standards?

To reduce differences in expression and practice under similar circumstances.

What framework do accounting standards provide?

A framework for evaluating professional work quality and responsibility.

What are the main roles of SOCPA in Saudi Arabia?

Regulating professions, developing standards, training, exams, and boosting confidence.

When was the International Accounting Standards Board established?

In 2001.

How many members does the IASB have under the IFRS Foundation?

Sixteen members.

What documents does the IASB approve?

International Financial Reporting Standards and related documents.

What does the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting establish?

It establishes concepts underlying financial statement preparation and presentation for external users.

What key objectives does the Conceptual Framework address?

It addresses objectives, qualitative characteristics, element definitions, recognition, measurement, and capital concepts.

Why is financial information considered relevant?

Because it can make a difference in users’ decisions through predictive or confirmatory value.

What does faithful representation require of financial information?

It requires complete, neutral, and error-free representation of the phenomena.

What are the enhancing qualitative characteristics of financial information?

Comparability, understandability, verifiability, and timeliness.

How is an asset defined in financial reporting?

A resource controlled from past events expected to bring future economic benefits.

What defines a liability in financial reporting?

A present obligation from past events expected to cause an outflow of economic resources.

What is equity in financial reporting terms?

The residual interest in assets after deducting all liabilities.

What is the aim of IAS 1 in financial statement presentation?

To establish a basis for comparable general-purpose financial statements.

What documents make up a complete set of financial statements?

Statement of financial position, profit or loss and other comprehensive income, changes in equity, cash flows, and notes.

Name one general presentation consideration for financial statements.

Fair presentation and IFRS compliance.

When can an entity present assets and liabilities based on liquidity instead of current/non-current?

When liquidity-based presentation provides more relevant information, like for some financial institutions.

What defines a current asset regarding the operating cycle?

Expected to be realized, sold, or consumed in the normal operating cycle.

When is a liability classified as current based on settlement rights?

When the entity lacks the right to defer settlement for at least twelve months.

What items are included in the statement of profit or loss?

Revenue, gains or losses on derecognition and reclassification of financial assets, finance costs, equity-accounted results, tax expense, and discontinued operations.

How must material income and expense items be disclosed?

Separately by nature and amount, with no item presented as extraordinary.

Which inventories does IAS 2 not apply to?

Work in progress from construction contracts, financial instruments, and biological assets related to agriculture.

What is net realizable value?

Estimated selling price minus estimated completion and selling costs.

At what value are inventories measured?

The lower of cost and net realizable value.

What costs are included in inventory cost?

Costs of purchase, conversion, and other costs to bring inventory to present location and condition.

What costs are included in costs of purchase?

Purchase price, import duties, non-recoverable taxes, transport, and other acquisition costs minus discounts and returns.

What costs are included in conversion costs?

Direct labor and fixed and variable production overheads like depreciation and indirect materials.

When is inventory expense recognized?

When inventory is sold, write-downs or losses occur, or reversals happen.

Which inventory cost formulas are used under international standards?

Specific identification, FIFO, and weighted average; LIFO is no longer used.

What does IAS 7 require for every financial statement period?

A cash flow statement as a component of the financial statements.

What are cash equivalents?

Short-term, highly liquid investments readily convertible to known cash amounts with insignificant value risk.

What activities do operating activities include?

The entity’s principal revenue-producing activities and activities other than investing or financing.

What do investing activities concern?

Acquiring and disposing of long-term assets and other non-cash-equivalent investments.

What do financing activities change?

The size and composition of contributed equity and borrowings.

Into which categories must cash flows be classified?

Operating, investing, and financing activities.

What cash receipts and payments are included in operating cash flows?

Cash receipts from sales, services, grants, fees, commissions, other income, payments to suppliers and employees, insurance receipts and payments, income-tax payments (unless linked to investing or financing), and cash flows from trading contracts.

What distinguishes the direct and indirect methods of cash flow reporting?

Direct method discloses major classes of gross cash receipts and payments; indirect method adjusts profit or loss for non-cash items, working-capital changes, and investing or financing items.

What are accounting policies in financial statements?

Specific principles, bases, conventions, rules, and practices applied by an entity.

What triggers a change in accounting estimate?

New information or developments, not error correction.

What defines a prior-period error?

Omission or misstatement from failing to use or misusing reliable information available when preparing statements.

When can an entity change an accounting policy?

Only when required by IFRS or when it provides more reliable and relevant information.

How is a change in accounting policy applied?

Retrospectively by adjusting opening equity and comparative amounts as if always applied.

When is a change in accounting estimate recognized in profit or loss?

In the current period if it affects only that period, or current and future periods if it affects both.

How must material prior-period errors be corrected?

Retrospectively by restating comparative information in the first financial statements after discovery.

What are events after the reporting period?

Events occurring between the reporting period end and financial statement authorization date.

What distinguishes adjusting events from non-adjusting events?

Adjusting events evidence conditions existing at the reporting date; non-adjusting arise after it.

What must an entity do for adjusting events after the reporting period?

Adjust recognized amounts in its financial statements.

What is the authorization date of financial statements?

The date when financial statements are legally authorized for issue, usually board approval.

How does a customer’s bankruptcy after reporting period affect receivables?

It confirms impairment at reporting date requiring adjustment of receivable carrying amount.

What is the treatment of non-adjusting events after the reporting period?

Do not adjust recognized amounts but disclose material events with nature and financial effect.

How are dividends proposed after the reporting period treated?

Not recognized as a liability at reporting date but disclosed if declared before authorization.

What basis must financial statements use if management decides to liquidate after reporting period?

They must not be prepared on a going-concern basis.

What defines a construction contract?

A contract specifically negotiated for constructing a single or interrelated assets.

What distinguishes a fixed-price contract from a cost-plus contract?

Fixed-price contracts have a fixed price; cost-plus contracts reimburse costs plus a fee.

When are separate assets treated as separate construction contracts?

When separate bids, negotiations, and identifiable revenues and costs exist for each asset.

When is a group of contracts treated as one construction contract?

When negotiated as a single package, interrelated as one project, and performed concurrently.

How is contract revenue recognized when results can be estimated reliably?

By reference to the stage of completion at the reporting date with immediate loss recognition.

How is revenue recognized when contract results cannot be estimated reliably?

Revenue is recognized only to the extent of probably recoverable costs incurred.

What conditions are required for reliable estimation in fixed-price contracts?

Reliable measurement of total revenue, probable benefits, remaining costs, and stage of completion.

What disclosures are required for construction contracts?

Revenue, methods, stage of completion, cumulative costs, profits, advances, and retentions.

What defines a finance lease in terms of risks and rewards?

It transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership of an asset.

What distinguishes an operating lease from a finance lease?

It does not transfer substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership.

What is a lease contract?

An agreement giving the lessee the right to use an asset for a period in exchange for payment.

How does a lessee recognize a finance lease at commencement?

As an asset and liability at the lower of fair value or present value of minimum lease payments.

What costs are added to the asset when recognizing a finance lease?

The lessee’s initial direct costs.

How are finance-lease payments divided?

Between finance charges and reduction of the outstanding liability.

How are finance charges allocated in a finance lease?

To produce a constant periodic interest rate on the remaining liability.

How are operating-lease payments recognized as expenses?

On a straight-line basis over the lease term unless another basis better represents usage.

What is the functional currency of an entity?

The currency of the primary economic environment where the entity operates.

What defines monetary items in foreign exchange?

Money held and assets or liabilities in fixed or determinable amounts of money.

How is a foreign-currency transaction initially recorded?

By multiplying the foreign amount by the exchange rate at the transaction date.

Which exchange rate is used for foreign-currency monetary items at reporting date?

The closing rate.

Which exchange rate applies to non-monetary items measured at historical cost?

The transaction-date rate.

Which exchange rate is used for non-monetary items measured at fair value?

The rate when fair value was measured.

Where are exchange differences on settlement or remeasurement of monetary items recognized?

In profit or loss in the period they arise.

What happens to cumulative exchange differences on disposal of a foreign operation?

They are reclassified from equity to profit or loss.

How do consolidated financial statements present assets and liabilities?

As those of a single economic entity including parent and subsidiaries.

What do separate financial statements account for?

Investments held by the parent or investor.

What are separate financial statements?

Statements where investments are accounted for at cost or under IFRS 9 by a parent or investor.

How are investments in subsidiaries accounted for in separate financial statements?

At cost or in accordance with IFRS 9 using the same treatment per investment class.

When are dividends recognized in profit or loss in separate financial statements?

When the investor’s right to receive them is established.

What must a parent disclose if it presents separate instead of consolidated financial statements?

That fact, its principal place of business and country of incorporation, where consolidated statements can be obtained, significant investments and ownership percentages, and accounting method used.