1. Which of the following is NOT considered cash for financial reporting purposes?
2. What is the preferable presentation of accounts receivable from officers, employees, or affiliated companies on a balance sheet?
3. Which of the following is considered cash?
4. If a company employs the gross method of recording accounts receivable from customers, then sales discounts taken should be reported as
5. Assuming that the ideal measure of short-term receivables in the balance sheet is the discounted value of the cash to be received in the future, failure to follow this practice usually does NOT make the balance sheet misleading because
6. Which of the following methods of determining annual bad debt expense best achieves the matching concept?
7. The accountant for the Orion Sales Company is preparing the income statement for 2007 and the balance sheet at December 31, 2007. Orion uses the periodic inventory system. The January 1, 2007 merchandise inventory balance will appear
8. Eller Co. received merchandise on consignment. As of January 31, Eller included the goods in inventory, but did NOT record the transaction. The effect of this on its financial statements for January 31 would be
9. If the beginning inventory for 2006 is overstated, the effects of this error on cost of goods sold for 2006, net income for 2006, and assets at December 31, 2007, respectively, are
10. Assuming no beginning inventory, what can be said about the trend of inventory prices if cost of goods sold computed when inventory is valued using the FIFO method exceeds cost of goods sold when inventory is valued using the LIFO method?
11. Which method of inventory pricing best approximates specific identification of the actual flow of costs and units in most manufacturing situations?
12. All of the following costs should be charged against revenue in the period in which costs are incurred EXCEPT for
13. In no case can “market” in the lower-of-cost-or-market rule be more than
14. When the direct method is used to record inventory at market
15. An item of inventory purchased this period for $15.00 has been incorrectly written down to its current replacement cost of $10.00. It sells during the following period for $30.00, its normal selling price, with disposal costs of $3.00 and normal profit of $12.00. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
16. The retail inventory method is based on the assumption that the
17. A major advantage of the retail inventory method is that it
18. In 2006, Lucas Manufacturing signed a contract with a supplier to purchase raw materials in 2007 for $700,000. Before the December 31, 2006 balance sheet date, the market price for these materials dropped to $510,000. The journal entry to record this situation at December 31, 2006 will result in a credit that should be reported
19. The cost of land typically includes the purchase price and all of the following costs EXCEPT
20. Cotton Hotel Corporation recently purchased Holiday Hotel and the land on which it is located with the plan to tear down the Holiday Hotel and build a new luxury hotel on the site. The cost of the Holiday Hotel should be
21. If a corporation purchases a lot and building and subsequently tears down the building and uses the property as a parking lot, the proper accounting treatment of the cost of the building would depend on
22. The period of time during which interest must be capitalized ends when
23. Which of the following assets do NOT qualify for capitalization of interest costs incurred during construction of the assets?
24. When computing the amount of interest cost to be capitalized, the concept of “avoidable interest” refers to
25. The King-Kong Corporation exchanges one plant asset for a similar plant asset and gives cash in the exchange. The exchange is NOT expected to cause a material change in the future cash flows for either entity. If a gain on the disposal of the old asset is indicated, the gain will
26. When a plant asset is acquired by issuance of common stock, the cost of the plant asset is properly measured by the
27. The cost of a nonmonetary asset acquired in exchange for another nonmonetary asset and the exchange has commercial substance is usually recorded at
28. Which of the following principles best describes the conceptual rationale for the methods of matching depreciation expense with revenues?
29. If an industrial firm uses the units-of-production method for computing depreciation on its only plant asset, factory machinery, the credit to accumulated depreciation from period to period during the life of the firm will
30. Which of the following most accurately reflects the concept of depreciation as used in accounting?
31. Prentice Company purchased a depreciable asset for $200,000. The estimated salvage value is $20,000, and the estimated useful life is 10 years. The straight-line method will be used for depreciation. What is the depreciation base of this asset?
32. Harrison Company purchased a depreciable asset for $100,000. The estimated salvage value is $10,000, and the estimated useful life is 10 years. The straight-line method will be used for depreciation. What is the depreciation base of this asset?
33. Starr Company purchased a depreciable asset for $150,000. The estimated salvage value is $10,000, and the estimated useful life is 8 years. The double-declining balance method will be used for depreciation. What is the depreciation expense for the second year on this asset?
34. Costs incurred internally to create intangibles are
35. Factors considered in determining an intangible assets useful life include all of the following EXCEPT
36. The cost of purchasing patent rights for a product that might otherwise have seriously competed with one of the purchaser’s patented products should be
37. Malrom Manufacturing Company acquired a patent on a manufacturing process on January 1, 2006 for $10,000,000. It was expected to have a 10 year life and no residual value. Malrom uses straight-line amortization for patents. On December 31, 2007, the expected future cash flows expected from the patent were expected to be $800,000 per year for the next eight years. The present value of these cash flows, discounted at Malroms market interest rate, is $4,800,000. At what amount should the patent be carried on the December 31, 2007 balance sheet?
38. Mining Company acquired a patent on an oil extraction technique on January 1, 2006 for $5,000,000. It was expected to have a 10 year life and no residual value. Mining uses straight-line amortization for patents. On December 31, 2007, the expected future cash flows expected from the patent were expected to be $600,000 per year for the next eight years. The present value of these cash flows, discounted at Minings market interest rate, is $2,800,000. At what amount should the patent be carried on the December 31, 2007 balance sheet?
39. General Products Company bought Special Products Division in 2006 and appropriately booked $250,000 of goodwill related to the purchase. On December 31, 2007, the fair value of Special Products Division is $2,000,000 and it is carried on General Products books for a total of $1,700,000, including the goodwill. An analysis of Special Products Divisions assets indicates that goodwill of $200,000 exists on December 31, 2007. What goodwill impairment should be recognized by General Products in 2007?
40. The intangible asset goodwill may be
41. The reason goodwill is sometimes referred to as a master valuation account is because
42. Goodwill
43. If a short-term obligation is excluded from current liabilities because of refinancing, the footnote to the financial statements describing this event should include all of the following information EXCEPT
44. Stock dividends distributable should be classified on the
45. Which of the following items is a current liability?
46. A company offers a cash rebate of $1 on each $4 package of light bulbs sold during 2007. Historically, 10% of customers mail in the rebate form. During 2007, 4,000,000 packages of light bulbs are sold, and 140,000 $1 rebates are mailed to customers. What is the rebate expense and liability, respectively, shown on the 2007 financial statements dated December 31?
47. A company offers a cash rebate of $1 on each $4 package of batteries sold during 2007. Historically, 10% of customers mail in the rebate form. During 2007, 6,000,000 packages of batteries are sold, and 210,000 $1 rebates are mailed to customers. What is the rebate expense and liability, respectively, shown on the 2007 financial statements dated December 31?
48. A company buys an oil rig for $1,000,000 on January 1, 2007. The life of the rig is 10 years and the expected cost to dismantle the rig at the end of 10 years is $200,000 (present value at 10% is $77,110). 10% is an appropriate interest rate for this company. What expense should be recorded for 2007 as a result of these events?
49. A contingency can be accrued when
50. Mark Ward is a farmer who owns land which borders on the right-of-way of the Northern Railroad. On August 10, 2007, due to the admitted negligence of the Railroad, hay on the farm was set on fire and burned. Ward had had a dispute with the Railroad for several years concerning the ownership of a small parcel of land. The representative of the Railroad has offered to assign any rights which the Railroad may have in the land to Ward in exchange for a release of his right to reimbursement for the loss he has sustained from the fire. Ward appears inclined to accept the Railroad’s offer. The Railroad’s 2007 financial statements should include the following related to the incident:
51. Which of the following contingencies need NOT be disclosed in the financial statements or the notes thereto?
52. The covenants and other terms of the agreement between the issuer of bonds and the lender are set forth in the
53. If bonds are issued initially at a premium and the effective-interest method of amortization is used, interest expense in the earlier years will be
54. Bonds that pay no interest unless the issuing company is profitable are called
55. Minimum lease payments may include a
56. An essential element of a lease conveyance is that the
57. While only certain leases are currently accounted for as a sale or purchase, there is theoretic justification for considering all leases to be sales or purchases. The principal reason that supports this idea is that
58. In the earlier years of a lease, from the lessee’s perspective, the use of the
59. In a lease that is appropriately recorded as a direct-financing lease by the lessor, unearned income
60. In order to properly record a direct-financing lease, the lessor needs to know how to calculate the lease receivable. The lease receivable in a direct-financing lease is best defined as