TOP: Development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States
KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge NOT: Time: 1 min.
14. Financial Accounting Concepts establish generally accepted accounting principles.
ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States
KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge NOT: Time: 1 min.
15. According to the second Financial Accounting Concept, those characteristics of information that make it a desirable commodity can be viewed as a hierarchy of qualities, with understandability and usefulness for decision making of most importance.
ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States
KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge NOT: Time: 1 min.
16. Performance indicators for nonbusiness organizations are usually formal budgets and donor restrictions.
ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
NAT: BUSPROG: Communication
STA: AICPA: FN: Measurement | ACBSP: GAAP | IMA: Financial Statement Analysis
TOP: Development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States
KEY: Bloom's: Knowledge NOT: Time: 1 min.
17. Reasonable inaccuracies of accounting for an entity, short of its complete life span, are accepted.
ANS: T 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.