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Income Statement: Reporting the Results of Operating Activ.
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Business
Undergraduate 2
10/05/2009

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Term
Net Income
Definition
revenues minus expenses plus gains minus losses.
Term
Revenues
Definition
reflect the net assets that a firm receives from its customers when it sells goods or renders services.
Term
Expenses
Definition
reflect the net assets consumed in generating revenues.
Term
Cross section analysis
Definition
to look at how firms have performed over time, to explain perform, and to compare performance across firms.
Term
income statement
Definition
statement of operations or the statement of operating activity.
Term
Accounting Period
Definition
income statemtn that reflects the results of operations during an accouting period.
Term
Balance sheet and income statement
Definition
Income statement reflects changes in net assets during the one-year accounting period ending on this date.
Term
Differences between U.S GAAP and IFRS
Definition
U.S GAAP provides little guidance about which items the firm must separately display or their order. IFRS requires, at minimum, the separate display of revenues, financing costs, income tax expense, profit or loss for the period, and certain other items.
Term
Retained Earnings (ending)
Definition
Retained Earnings (beginning) + Net Income - Dividends
Term
Retained Earnings (beginning) - Retained Earnings (ending) =
Definition
Net Income - Dividends
Term
Change in Retained Earnings
Definition
Net Income - Dividends
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Both U.S GAAP and IFRS
Definition
require seperate display of items whose size, nature, or frequency must seperately display necessary for for accurately portraying performance.
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Both U.S GAAP and IFRS
Definition
require separate display necessary for accurately portraying performance.
Term
IFRS
Definition
requires seperate display of portion of profit or loss attributable to the minority (noncontrolling)interest and the portion attributable to the parent entity, a topic discussed in more detail.
Term
What does IFRS and U.S GAAP do for firms who present expenses?
Definition
IFRS requires separate display of portion of profit or loss attributable to the minority interest and the portion attributable to the parent entity. U.S GAAP is silent on issue.
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Do multiple segments of the firm have to disclose the revenues of each segment?
Definition
No.
Term
Net Sales
Definition
sales revenues less discounts, allowances, and returns.
Term
--Reporting Expenses--
Cost of goods sold:
Definition
Cost of products sold and services provided during the period.
Term
Gross Profit
Definition
Difference between sales and cost of sales.
Term
Operating Income
Definition
Difference between revenues and expenses associated with core operating activities.
Term
Subtracting total operating expenses from sales yields
Definition
operating profit.
Term
How can items be classified as operating expense?
Definition
Part of core business.
Term
Other Income (example)
Definition
selling the headquarters of a business.
Term
Nonoperating expenses - operating income=
Definition
Profit before income taxes.
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Definition of operating income:
Definition
No authoritative guidance on what is a core operating expense. Defined by management what a core operating expense is.
Term
Sales - Operating Expenses
Definition
Operating Profit
Term
Operating Income - nonoperating expese
Definition
profit before income taxes
Term
Income tax espense
Definition
Multiplying applicable tax rate (effective tax rate) with Profit before income taxes.
Term
Income with continuing operations and income from discontinued operations
Definition
earnings that will not continue because the firm either sold, or made a decision to sell, a portion of its business.
Term
--Revenue Recognition--
Definition:

Criteria:
Definition
timing and measurement of revenues.

1. Completion of earnings process: seller has done all (or nearly all) that it has promised to do for the customer. seller has delivered all of the goods and services it has agreed to provide.

2. Recepit of assets from the customer: The seller has recieved cash or some other asset that it can convert to cash, ex: collecting accounts receivable.
Term
--Revenue Measurement--
Sales discounts and allowances:
Definition
customers can take advantage of discounts for prompt payment and seller may grant allowances for unsatisfactory merchandise.
Term
Sales returns
Definition
Collect and keep cash in smaller amounts than the sum of the exchange prices.
Term
Expense recognition
Definition
When the firm consume benefits.
Term
Criteria for Expense Recognition
Definition
1. Recognition of expense for products at the same time as revenues.

2. when the firm consumes the benefits of an asset over time, the cost becomes an expense of the period when the firm consumes the benefits.
Term
--Recognition of Product Costs--

Cost of Goods sold reports the decrease in inventory
Definition
When the firm recognizes that the good is sold, the firm can then recognizes the revenues sold and a reduction in inventory.
Term
Three types of material become product costs:
Definition
I1. Direct material costs. 2. Direct Labor Costs 3. Manufacturing Overhead costs
Term
Indirect costs
Definition
Manufacturing overhead includes costs such as property taxes, insurance, factory utilities, etc.
Term
--Recognition of Period Expenses--

Administrative costs
Definition
firm recognizes them as expenses when it consumes their benefits in the accounting period.
Term
--Comprehensive Income--
Other Comprehensive Income:
Definition
refer to changes in net assets that are not transactions with owners and do not appear on the income statement.
Term
Comprehensive Income
Definition
changes in net assets for a period except for changes arising from transactions with owners.
Term
Comprehensive Income=
Definition
Net Income + Other Comprehensive Income
Term
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
Definition
Both U.S GAAP and IFRS require companies to report cumulative effect of other comprehensive income in a balance sheet account.
Term
Retained Earnings (ending)=
Definition
Retained Earnings (beginnning)+ Net Income - Dividends
Term
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (ending)
Definition
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (beginning) + Other comprehensive Income
Term
U.S GAAP and IFRS require presentation of an income sttemnt and presentation of items of Other Comprehensive Income. U.S GAAP permits three reporting formats.
Definition
1. A single statement of comprehensive income that shows all the changes in net assets except from transactions with owners.

2. A two-statement presentation that includes an income statement and a separate statement of comprehensive income.

3. A separate display of items comprising Other Comprehensive Income within a statement of changes in shareholders' equity.
Term
Profit Margin Percentage
Definition
Ratio of Net Income to Revenue. Used to compare companies of different profitability.
Term
Common-Size Income Statement:
Definition
expresses each expense and net income as a percentage of revenues. Shows relations between expense, revenues, and net income.
Term
Time-Series Analysis can show how profit magins increase:
Definition
Result from four factors:

1. Decreasing cost of goods sold to sales percentage.

2. A decreasing selling, general, and admministrative (SG&A) expense to sales percentage.

3. A decreasing interest expense to sales percentage.

3. A decreasing interest expense to sales percentage.

4. An increasing other income to sales percentage.
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