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Under GASB, Proceeds of debt issue would be recorded either as…

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A liability, short term debt or proceeds of bonds other financing
Sources

1
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A city’s budgetary entry for estimated revenues of the general fund includes…

2) it does not include…

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Property taxes, licenses and fines

2) does not include proceeds of debt issue

2
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Forfeited nonvested accounts of an employee benefit plan can be used…3

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1 reduce future employer contributions

2 reduce expenses

3 reallocated to participant’s accounts

3
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The measurement focus of governmental type funds is the determination of…

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Both flow of financial resources and financial position

4
Q

Expenditures are…

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Closed at the end of the fiscal year

5
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Fund balance reserved for encumbrances is…

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A balance sheet account

Balance sheet accounts aren’t closed at end of fiscal year

6
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Stock dividends less than 20% should…

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Charge retained earnings

7
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A corporation issuing stock should not charge retained earning for the market value of shares issued in…

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Employee stock bonus

8
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When there are encumbrances of $132,000 how would they be reported on the balance sheet?

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Fund balance unassigned. 132,000
Reserve for encumbrances
Fund balance committed. 132,000

9
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According to GASB, the primary characteristics of governmental structure are…3

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1 representative for of government and separation of powers

2 federal system of government and prevalence of
intergovernmental revenues

3 relationship of taxpayers to services received

10
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Flows an balances of financial resources for governmental fund types is…

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Not a primary characteristic of their structure

11
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The initial test under FASB to determine whether an impairment of carrying amount for a long lived asset

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Carrying amount exceeds undiscounted future cashflows

12
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Assets - liabilities - encumbrances, in a capital projects fund are…

What are they not?

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Assigned

Not unassigned

13
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Extraordinary items are reported…2

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1 before any cumulative effect of accounting chages

2 and after discontinued operations

14
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What characteristic involves specified criteria that serve to screen the risks and uncertainties encountered by every entity?

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Selectivity

15
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An antitrust action that is unusual in nature is…

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An extraordinary item

16
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Regulation S-K

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Contains instructions for filing nonfinancial statement forms with
The SEC

17
Q

Regulation S-X

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Contains information regarding financial statements submitted
To the SEC

18
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What account should be reduced if 25% of preferred stock is required and PiC exists?

2) does not exist

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PiC should be reduced before retained earnings is

19
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Retained earnings is a term used by both…

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US GAAP and IFRS

20
Q

Recognition principle for share based payment transactions don’t apply to…

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Employee stock ownership plan instruments

21
Q

Recognition principle for share based payment transactions applies to grants of…3

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1 common stock

2 stock options

3 other equity instruments to employees

22
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Which type of fiduciary fund should not be reported in the statement of changes in fiduciary net position?

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Agency funds

23
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Agency funds should not be reported in the statement of changes in fiduciary net position because…

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They involve reporting for resources held by government in purely
Custodial capacity

24
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Principal market, is the market in which a reporting entity…

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Would sell the asset or transfer the liability with the greatest
Volume and level of activity for the asset or liability

25
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Any fair value measurement should assume that the transaction to sell the asset or transfer the liability occurs in which market?

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Principal market for asset or liability

26
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If there is no principal market for that type of asset or liability the entity should…

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Use the most advantageous market for that asset or liability

27
Q

What is the purpose of SFAC 4 as stated in that concepts statement?

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Provide basis for establishing detailed accounting and reporting standards for non business entities

28
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Transfer from the the general fund to a capital projects fund is…

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An other financing used

29
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Refuting employer contributions from the general fund to a pension trust fund is…

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Treated as an expenditure