TEST BANK FOR
Financial Reporting
and Analysis, 13th
Edition Charles H.
Gibson
(Comprehensive Guide)
,CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL REPORTING
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Charging off equipment that cost less than $20 would be an example of the application of:
a. going concern.
b. cost.
c. matching.
d. materiality.
e. realization.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
2. The going concern assumption:
a. is applicable to all financial statements.
b. primarily involves periodic income measurement.
c. allows for the statements to be prepared under generally accepted accounting principles.
d. requires that accounting procedures be the same from period to period.
e. none of the answers are correct.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
3. Understating assets and revenues is justified based on:
a. realization assumption.
b. matching.
c. consistency.
d. realization.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: E PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
4. The assumption that enables us to prepare periodic statements between the time that a business
commences operations and the time it goes out of business is:
a. time period.
b. business entity.
c. historical cost.
d. transaction.
e. None of the answers are correct.
, ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
5. Valuing assets at their liquidation values is not consistent with:
a. conservatism.
b. materiality.
c. going concern.
d. time period.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
6. The business being separate and distinct from the owners is an integral part of the:
a. time period assumption.
b. going concern assumption.
c. business entity assumption.
d. realization assumption.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
7. The principle that assumes the reader of the financial statements is not interested in the liquidation values
is:
a. conservatism.
b. matching.
c. time period.
d. realization.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: E PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
8. An accounting period that ends when operations are at a low ebb is:
a. a calendar year.
b. a fiscal year.
c. the natural business year.
d. an operating year.
e. None of the answers are correct.
, ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
9. The accounting principle that assumes that inflation will not take place or will be immaterial is:
a. monetary unit.
b. historical cost.
c. realization.
d. going concern.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
10. Valuing inventory at the lower of cost or market is an application of the:
a. time period assumption.
b. realization principle.
c. going concern principle.
d. conservatism principle.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
11. The realization principle leads accountants to usually recognize revenue at:
a. the end of production.
b. during production.
c. the receipt of cash.
d. the point of sale.
e. None of the answers are correct.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Traditional Assumptions of the Accounting Model KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge
NOT: Time: 1 min.
12. The comment that "items that are not material may be recorded in the financial statements in the most
economical and expedient manner possible" is representative of:
a. matching.
b. conservatism.
c. realization.
d. materiality.
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