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Chapter 24-1
Full Disclosure in Full Disclosure in Financial ReportingFinancial Reporting
Full Disclosure in Full Disclosure in Financial ReportingFinancial Reporting
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2424Intermediate Accounting12th Edition
Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield
Prepared by Coby Harmon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chapter 24-2
1. Review the full disclosure principle and describe implementation problems.
2. Explain the use of notes in financial statement preparation.
3. Discuss the disclosure requirements for major business segments.
4. Describe the accounting problems associated with interim reporting.
5. Identify the major disclosures in the auditor’s report.
6. Understand management’s responsibilities for financials.
7. Identify issues related to financial forecasts and projections.
8. Describe the profession’s response to fraudulent financial reporting.
Learning ObjectivesLearning ObjectivesLearning ObjectivesLearning Objectives
Chapter 24-3
Accounting Accounting policiespolicies
Common Common notesnotes
Full Full
Disclosure Disclosure
PrinciplePrinciple
Notes to Notes to
Financial Financial
StatementsStatements
Disclosure Disclosure
IssuesIssues
Auditor’s and Auditor’s and
Management’s Management’s
ReportReport
Current Current
Reporting Reporting
IssuesIssues
Increase in Increase in reporting reporting requirementsrequirements
Differential Differential disclosuredisclosure
Special Special transactions transactions or eventsor events
Post-balance-Post-balance-sheet eventssheet events
Diversified Diversified companiescompanies
Interim Interim reportsreports
Auditor’s Auditor’s reportreport
Management’s Management’s reportsreports
Reporting on Reporting on forecasts and forecasts and projectionsprojections
Internet financial Internet financial reportingreporting
Fraudulent Fraudulent financial financial reportingreporting
Criteria for Criteria for accounting and accounting and reporting reporting choiceschoices
Full Disclosure in Financial ReportingFull Disclosure in Financial ReportingFull Disclosure in Financial ReportingFull Disclosure in Financial Reporting
Chapter 24-4
Full disclosure principle calls for financial reporting of any financial facts significant enough to influence the judgment of an informed reader.
Financial disasters at Microstrategy, PharMor, WorldCom, and Global Crossing highlight
the difficulty of implementing the full disclosure principle.
LO 1 Review the full disclosure principle and describe implementation problems.
Full Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure Principle
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ExamplesExamples Accounting Accounting
PoliciesPolicies ContingenciesContingencies Inventory Inventory
MethodsMethods Shares Shares
OutstandingOutstanding Alternative Alternative
MeasuresMeasures
Financial Financial StatementsStatements
Notes to Notes to Financial Financial
StatementsStatements
Supplementary Supplementary InformationInformation
Other Means of Other Means of Financial Financial ReportingReporting
Other Other InformationInformation
Balance sheetBalance sheet
Statement of Statement of IncomeIncome
Statement of Statement of Cash FlowsCash Flows
Statement of Statement of Changes in Changes in Stockholders’ Stockholders’ EquityEquity
Examples:Examples: Changing Changing
Prices Prices DisclosuresDisclosures
Oil and Gas Oil and Gas Reserves Reserves InformationInformation
Examples:Examples: Management Management
Discussion Discussion and Analysisand Analysis
Letters to Letters to StockholdersStockholders
Examples:Examples: Competition Competition
and Order and Order Backlog in SEC Backlog in SEC FormsForms
Analysts' Analysts' reportsreports
Economic Economic StatisticsStatistics
ArticlesArticles
LO 1 Review the full disclosure principle and describe implementation problems.
Full Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure Principle
Basic Financial Basic Financial StatementsStatements
Affected by Existing FASB StandardsAffected by Existing FASB Standards
Financial Financial ReportingReporting
All Information Useful for Investment, Credit, and Similar All Information Useful for Investment, Credit, and Similar DecisionsDecisions
Illustration 24-1
Chapter 24-6
Increase in Reporting Requirements
Reasons:
• Complexity of Business Environment.
• Necessity for Timely Information.
• Accounting as a Control and Monitoring Device.
LO 1 Review the full disclosure principle and describe implementation problems.
Full Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure Principle
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Differential Disclosure
“Big GAAP versus Little GAAP”.
FASB takes the position that there should be one set of GAAP.
LO 1 Review the full disclosure principle and describe implementation problems.
Full Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure PrincipleFull Disclosure Principle
Chapter 24-8
Notes are the means of amplifying or explaining the items presented in the main body of the statements.
LO 2 Explain the use of notes in financial statement preparation.
Notes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial Statements
Accounting Policies
Companies should present a statement identifying the accounting policies adopted (Summary of Significant Accounting Policies).
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Common Notes
Inventory
Property, Plant, and Equipment
Creditor Claims
Equity Holders’ Claims
Contingencies and Commitments
Deferred Taxes, Pensions, and Leases
Changes in Accounting Principles
LO 2 Explain the use of notes in financial statement preparation.
Notes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial StatementsNotes to the Financial Statements
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Disclosure of Special Transactions or Events
Related-party transactions
Illegal acts
LO 2 Explain the use of notes in financial statement preparation.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
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Post-Balance-Sheet Events (Subsequent Events)
LO 2 Explain the use of notes in financial statement preparation.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
Illustration 24-4
1 - Events that provide additional evidence about conditions that existed at the balance sheet date.
2 - Events that provide evidence about conditions that did not exist at the balance sheet date.
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Reporting for Diversified Companies
LO 3 Discuss the disclosure requirements for major business segments.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
Investors and investment analysts income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow information on the individual segments that compose the total income figure.
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Objective of Reporting Segmented Information
LO 3 Discuss the disclosure requirements for major business segments.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
To provide information about the different types of business activities in which an enterprise engages and the different economic environments in which it operates.
A company can meet objective by providing financial statements segmented based on how the company’s operations are managed (Operating Segment).
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Segmented Information Reported
LO 3 Discuss the disclosure requirements for major business segments.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
1. General information about operating segments.
2. Segment profit and loss and related information.
3. Segment assets.
4. Reconciliations.
5. Information about products and services and geographic areas.
6. Major customers.
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Interim Reports
LO 4 Describe the accounting problems associated with interim reporting.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
Cover periods of less than one year.
Two viewpoints exist:
1. The discrete approach
2. The integral approach
Companies should use the same accounting principles for interim reports that they use for annual reports.
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Unique Problems of Interim Reporting
LO 4 Describe the accounting problems associated with interim reporting.
Disclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure IssuesDisclosure Issues
(1) Advertising and similar costs
(2) Expenses subject to year-end adjustment
(3) Income taxes
(4) Extraordinary items
(5) Earnings per share
(6) Seasonality
Chapter 24-17 LO 5 Identify the major disclosures in the auditor’s report.
Auditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s Reports
Auditor’s Report
Standard unqualified opinion – auditor expresses the opinion that the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in conformity with GAAP.
Other opinions:
Qualified
Adverse
DisclaimIllustration 24-14
Chapter 24-18 LO 5 Identify the major disclosures in the auditor’s report.
Auditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s Reports
Management’s Report
The SEC mandates inclusion of management’s discussion and analysis (MD&A).
Management highlights favorable or unfavorable trends related to liquidity, capital resources, and results of operations.
Chapter 24-19 LO 6 Understand management’s responsibilities for financials.
Auditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s ReportsAuditor’s and Management’s Reports
Management’s Responsibilities for Financial Statements
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires the SEC to develop guidelines for all publicly traded companies to report on management’s responsibilities for, and assessment of, the internal control system.
Chapter 24-20 LO 7 Identify issues related to financial forecasts and projections.
Current Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting Issues
Reporting on Financial Forecasts and ProjectionsFinancial forecast is a set of prospective
financial statements that present, a company’s expected financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.
Financial projections are prospective financial statements that present, given one or more hypothetical assumptions, an entity’s expected financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. SEC Safe Harbor Rule
Chapter 24-21 LO 8 Describe the profession’s response to fraudulent financial
reporting.
Current Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting IssuesCurrent Reporting Issues
Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Intentional or reckless conduct, whether through act or omission, that results in materially misleading financial statements.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has numerous provisions intended to help prevent fraudulent financial reporting.
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