Questions from Advanced Accounting


Q: Explain how a U.S. company’s commitment to purchase inventory

Explain how a U.S. company’s commitment to purchase inventory with settlement in foreign currency (FC) might become less attractive over time and how adverse effects on earnings could be reduced.

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Q: A company is forecasting the purchase of inventory from an overseas vendor

A company is forecasting the purchase of inventory from an overseas vendor with payment to be made in a foreign currency (FC). Assume an option were used as a hedging instrument for this forecasted tr...

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Q: A foreign company maintains its books and records in its domestic currency

A foreign company maintains its books and records in its domestic currency. Identify several factors that might suggest that the domestic currency is not the entity’s functional currency.

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Q: Assume that a U.S. company has a French subsidiary

Assume that a U.S. company has a French subsidiary whose functional currency is the euro. Explain why the translation adjustment is not included as a component of net income on the consolidated income...

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Q: Baxter Industries, Inc., is a U.S. company

Baxter Industries, Inc., is a U.S. company that has a wholly owned subsidiary. The subsidiary maintains its book and records in a foreign currency (FC) and the majority of its local expenses such as p...

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Q: Explain how a German subsidiary’s year-end balance in retained earnings

Explain how a German subsidiary’s year-end balance in retained earnings is expressed in dollars assuming that the euro is the functional currency.

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Q: Assume that a U.S. company has a foreign subsidiary

Assume that a U.S. company has a foreign subsidiary whose functional currency is the U.S. dollar. Explain how exchange rates between the foreign currency and the dollar would have to change in order t...

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Q: Explain why functional currency should be remeasured, rather than translated,

Explain why functional currency should be remeasured, rather than translated, when a foreign entity’s functional currency is highly inflationary.

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Q: What are the benefits of viewing an interim period as an integral

What are the benefits of viewing an interim period as an integral part of a larger annual period rather than as a separate distinct period?

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Q: What factors are necessary for determining the estimated annual effective income tax

What factors are necessary for determining the estimated annual effective income tax rate?

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