TEST BANK for Fundamentals of Financial Accounting 6th Edition by Fred Phillips, Shana Clor-Proell, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby
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TEST BANK for Fundamentals of Financial Accounting 6th Edition by Fred Phillips, Shana Clor-Proell, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby. Chapter 1: Business Decisions and Financial Accounting Chapter 2: The Balance Sheet Chapter 3: The Income Statement Chapter 4: Adjustments, Financial Statements, And Fin...
Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 6e (Phillips)
Chapter 1 Business Decisions and Financial Accounting
1) Stockholders are owners of a corporation. All Chapters
Answers Included
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Stockholders are the owners of a corporation.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Accounting for Business Decisions
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe various organizational forms and business decision makers.
E
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
C
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) All corporations acquire financing by issuing stock for sale on public stock exchanges.
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Answer: FALSE
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Explanation: Most corporations start out as private companies and will apply to become public
companies ("go public") if they need a lot of financing. Financing can also be acquired by
borrowing from banks.
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Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Organizational Forms
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe various organizational forms and business decision makers.
Bloom's: Understand
C
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
EX
3) You paid $10,000 to buy 1% of the stock in a corporation that is now bankrupt. The company
owes $10 million dollars to its creditors. As a result of the bankruptcy, you are responsible for
paying $100,000 (or $10 million × 1%) of the amount owed to the creditors.
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Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Unlike sole proprietorships and partnerships, a corporation is a separate entity from
both legal and accounting perspectives. This means that a corporation, not its owners, is legally
responsible for its own taxes and debts.
M
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Organizational Forms
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe various organizational forms and business decision makers.
Bloom's: Apply
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
1
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4) Cash paid for wages is an example of an operating activity on the statement of cash flows.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Cash flows from running the business, including cash paid for wages, are operating
activities on the statement of cash flows.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
E
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
5) Borrowing money from a bank is a financing activity on the statement of cash flows.
Answer: TRUE
N
Explanation: On the statement of cash flows, borrowing and repaying bank loans are financing
activities.
LE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
EL
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
6) The daily activities involved in running a business, such as buying supplies and paying
EX
salaries and wages, are classified as operating activities on the statement of cash flows.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Buying supplies and paying salaries and wages are normal operating costs on the
statement of cash flows.
ED
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
M
7) Stockholders' equity is the difference between a company's assets and its liabilities.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Assets = Liabilities + Stockholders' Equity; therefore, Assets – Liabilities =
Stockholders' Equity
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: The Basic Accounting Equation
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
E
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
8) A company owes $200,000 on a bank loan. It will be reported by the company as Accounts
Payable.
N
Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Formal debt, evidenced by a written contract or note, is reported as Notes Payable.
LE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
EL
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
9) Amounts reported on financial statements are sometimes rounded to the nearest million.
EX
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Large businesses often round the numbers on their financial statements to the
nearest thousand or million.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
ED
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
Bloom's: Remember
M
10) Accounts Payable, Notes Payable, and Salaries and Wages Payable are examples of
liabilities.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: An account with the word "payable" in its title is a liability.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
E
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
11) Dividends are subtracted from revenues on the income statement.
Answer: FALSE
N
Explanation: The income statement reports revenues and expenses. Dividends are not expenses.
Rather, dividends are an optional distribution of earnings to stockholders, approved by the
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company's board of directors, and are presented on the statement of retained earnings.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Financial Statements
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
EL
financial statements.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
C
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
EX
12) If a company reports net income on the income statement, then the statement of cash flows
will report the same amount as cash flows from operating activities for the period.
Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Net income is not the same as cash flows from operating activities. Net income is
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not necessarily equal to cash because revenues are reported when earned and expenses when
incurred regardless of when cash is received or paid.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Financial Statements
M
Learning Objective: 01-02 Describe the purpose, structure, and content of the four basic
financial statements.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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