,CHAPTER 3: REVIEW OF A COMPANY’S ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
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1. The primary purpose of an accounting system is to record, organize. summarize, and report useful information to
external financial statement users and stakeholders, as well as to company management, who make operating, investing
and financing decisions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.1 - LO: 3.1
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
2. The another interpretation of the accounting equation is Assets = Liabilities + Contributed Capital + Beginning
Retained Earnings + Net Income - Dividends + Beginning Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income + Other
Comprehensive Income.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.1 - LO: 3.1
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
3. The accounting cycle followed each period by a company includes recording transactions, storing the data, organizing
the information, summarizing the events and arrangements, adjusting the accounts, reporting the accounting
information in financial statements, and then closing the books.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.2 - LO: 3.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
, Chapter 3: Review of a Company's Accounting System
7. The trial balance does help find some errors but it will not identify errors resulting from transactions that have not been
posted or transactions that were posted twice.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.4 - LO: 3.4
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
8. If the trial balance does not balance, the preparer should check to see if the difference is evenly divisible by 9. If so
there may be a transposition.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.4 - LO: 3.4
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
9. Deferrals are transactions, events, or arrangements in which the cash flows occur after the related expenses are incurred
or revenues earned.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ACCT.WHAL.16.3.5 - LO: 3.5
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking - BUSPROG: Analytic
LOCAL STANDARDS: United States - OH - Default City - AICPA: FN-Decision Modeling
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering
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