CHAPTER 1 Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting: ENVIRONMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS QUESTION 1-1 a. The similarities of accounting for profit-seeking and G&NP organizations include: 1. Double-entry system of accounts. 2. Most accounting mechanics‚ e.g.‚ basic transaction documents‚ journals‚ ledgers‚ charts of accounts. 3. Where a G&NP organization has a business-type activity‚ e.g.‚ a municipal electric utility‚ the accounting largely parallels that
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Governmental Acct. Chapter 1 Homework 1-1) What justifies the different accounting & financial reporting practices of gvmt. & not-for-profit organizations as compared with business organizations? The fact that governments may have a monopoly on the services that they provide and the taxpayers must provide resources to them regardless of what they are‚ and efficiency is hard to measure as well as the quantity or quality of the services. 1-2) Describe the principal differences that distinguish
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Chapter 1 Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making Solutions to Review Questions 1-1. Financial accounting is designed to provide information about the firm to external users. External users include investors‚ creditors‚ government authorities‚ regulators‚ customers‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ labor unions‚ and so on. Cost accounting systems are designed to provide information to internal users (managers). This difference is important‚ because it affects the design of the systems. Financial
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Chapter 1 The Government and Not-For-Profit Environment TRUE/FALSE (CHAPTER 1) 1. The main objective of a typical governmental or not-for-profit entity is to earn a profit. 2. A government’s budget may be backed by the force of law. 3. Governmental entities have no need for an accounting system. 4. A government’s internal managers rely on general purpose financial statements for a considerable amount of information about their government. 5. Governments and not-for-profits
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GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING EXAM 3 - CHAPTERS 8 THRU 10 Select the best answer for each question and enter your answers on the answer sheet sent with the exam. Submit only the completed answer sheet‚ not the entire exam. Please write your name on the answer sheet. 1. General long-term debt of a governmental entity includes a) All future financial obligations. b) All future financial obligations that result from past transactions. c) All future financial obligations
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(section 1) Module 1 E 1-1 1 a 2 c 3 d 4 c 5 b 6 c 7 d 8 a 9 b 10 c P 1-1 a. Wages Interest Add Equip 6‚000‚000 500‚000 900‚000 7‚400‚000 b. Wages Interest 6‚000‚000 500‚000 6‚500‚000 c. Bonds Wages Interest 6‚000‚000 500‚000 10‚000‚000 16‚500‚000 E 1-2 b b d b b c c b a b d. The cash basis of accounting requires the company to expense the entire $10 million of equipment in year ten. The taxpayers of the tenth year incur the entire expense rather than depreciating $1 million per year. P 1-2 1. The
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"principal" of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program who considers and approves or disapproves accounting and reporting standards recommended by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board? A. Chair of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. B. Secretary of the Interior. C. Comptroller General. D. All of the above. Content: Concept Level: Easy Wilson - Chapter 12 #16 17. FASAB has identified four major user groups of federal financial reports‚ they are
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Chapter 12 Fundamentals of Management Control Systems Solutions to Review Questions Accounting assigns costs and revenues to “responsibility centers” that correspond to the decision authority of managers. This allows the firm to measure performance based on the results of decisions by the manager. An effective corporate cost allocation system separates the results of decisions by corporate managers from those of business unit managers. Although there are well-developed standards for many
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Reorganization and Troubled Debt Restructuring 135 CHAPTER 8 MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS 8-1: a Trade accounts payable (P52‚000 + P62‚700) P114‚700 12% preferred stock (5‚000 x P1) P 5‚000 Paid in capital in excess of par (5‚000 x P9) 45‚000 Cash (P62‚700 x P0.80) _50‚160 _100‚160 Gain from discharge of indebtedness P 14‚540 8-2: c 8-3: c 8-4: b Carrying value of the
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Chapter 01 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment Chapter 01 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment Answer Key True / False Questions 1. Controlling involves the coordination of daily business functions within an organization. FALSE AACSB: Reflective Thinking AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Decision Making Bloom ’s: RC Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Explain four fundamental management
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