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Chapter 4: 1ISTQ (page 198)
Question: Which of the following is not reported in an income statement under IFRS?
(a) Discontinued operations.
(b) Extraordinary items.
(c) Cost of goods sold.
(d) Income tax.
Option b is the correct answer.
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(Income Statement, EPS) Presented below are selected ledger accounts of Tucker Corporation as of December 31, 2017.
Cash $50,000
Administrative expenses 100,000
Selling expenses 80,000
Net sales 540,000
Cost of goods sold 210,000
Cash dividends declared (2017) 20,000
Cash dividends paid (2017) 15,000
Discontinued operations (loss before income taxes) 40,000
Depreciation expense, not recorded in 2016 30,000
Retained earnings, December 31, 2016 90,000
Effective tax rate 30%
Instructions
Indicate where the following items would ordinarily appear on the financial statements of Boleyn, Inc. for the year 2017.
(a) The service life of certain equipment was changed from 8 to 5 years. If a 5-year life had been used previously, additional depreciation of \(425,000 would have been charged.
(b) In 2017, a flood destroyed a warehouse that had a book value of \)1,600,000. Floods are rare in this locality.
(c) In 2017, the company wrote off $1,000,000 of inventory that was considered obsolete.
(d) In 2014, a supply warehouse with an expected useful life of 7 years was erroneously expensed.
(e) Boleyn, Inc. changed from weighted-average to FIFO inventory pricing.
Vandross Company has recorded bad debt expense in the past at a rate of 1½% of accounts receivable, based on an aging analysis. In 2017, Vandross decided to increase its estimate to 2%. If the new rate had been used in prior years, cumulative bad debt expense would have been \(380,000 instead of \)285,000. In 2017, bad debt expense will be \(120,000 instead of \)90,000. If Vandross’s tax rate is 30%, what amount should it report as the cumulative effect of changing the estimated bad debt rate?
How can earnings management affect the quality of earnings?
Cooper Investments reported an unusual gain from the sale of certain assets in its 2017 income statement. How does intra period tax allocation affect the reporting of this unusual gain?
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