Questions from General Accounting


Q: Postulates are supposed to be tight enough to prevent conflicting conclusions being

Postulates are supposed to be tight enough to prevent conflicting conclusions being deduced from them. Is this the case with ARS 1?

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Q: A study (discussed in the chapter) found a heavier emphasis

A study (discussed in the chapter) found a heavier emphasis placed on relevance rather than reliability in disclosure standards by the FASB. Why do you think this is the case?

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Q: How do the imperative postulates (group C) differ from the

How do the imperative postulates (group C) differ from the other two categories of postulates?

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Q: Why do you think that security prices are impacted more by “

Why do you think that security prices are impacted more by “bad news” than “good news”?

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Q: Why do you think the term “deprival value” was used

Why do you think the term “deprival value” was used to name a specific type of replacement cost?

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Q: What is the relationship between the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting

What is the relationship between the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting and Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995?

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Q: What inconsistencies does Merino see in the proprietary theory at the turn

What inconsistencies does Merino see in the proprietary theory at the turn of the twentieth century before the advent of entity theory?

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Q: Why might the distinction between revenues and gains, and between expenses

Why might the distinction between revenues and gains, and between expenses and losses, be important to report yet unimportant as to how they are reported?

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Q: Verifiability is part of reliability in SFAC No. 2, but

Verifiability is part of reliability in SFAC No. 2, but is now an enhancing qualitative characteristic in SFAC No. 8. What effect does this reclassification have on the importance of verifiability in...

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Q: Accounting earnings are useful in predicting one-year ahead cash flows

Accounting earnings are useful in predicting one-year ahead cash flows. Is this sufficient? Why or why not?

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