CPA FAR Key Concepts
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The CPA Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) section covers US GAAP, IFRS, and governmental accounting, focusing on financial statement preparation, balance sheet accounts, and complex transactions.

Key concepts include revenue recognition (ASC 606), leases (ASC 842), business combinations, bonds, inventory, and governmental accounting, with a 50/50 mix of MCQs and simulations.

CPA FAR Key Concepts
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1. Bonds payable issue costs balance sheet classification

2. How are dividends in arreas reported?

3. Stock dividend percentage

4. Subsequent measurement of inventory is done using:

5. Loss on foreign subsidiary's operations due to significant currency devaluation by foreign government

6. On January 1, Year 4, Nori Mining Co. (lessee) entered into a 5-year lease for drilling equipment. The present value of the lease payments is $240,000. It includes a $10,000 present value of an option to purchase the equipment at the end of the lease term that Nori is reasonably certain to exercise. Nori estimates that the equipment's fair value will be $20,000 at the end of its 8-year life. Nori regularly uses straight-line amortization for similar equipment. For the year ended December 31, Year 4, what amount should Nori recognize as amortization expense on the right-of-use asset?

7. Db Expenses
Cr Net assets W/O donor restrictions - donated services

8. Current liabilities unless the creditor has waived the right to demand repayment for more than 1 year from the balance sheet date.

9. A measurement alternative may be elected for an investment in equity securities if the

10. When a foreign currency transaction gives rise to a receivable or a payable that is fixed in terms of the amount of foreign currency to be received or paid, a change in the exchange rate between the functional currency and the currency in which the transaction is denominated results in a gain or loss that ordinarily should be included as

11. Income tax expense or benefit is allocated to

12. Operating Lease Journal Entries

13. What is the entry for cash dividends received on an equity method investment?

14. Statement of financial position, statement of activities, and statement of cash flows.

15. F - You must recognize a noncontingent liability at the inception of a guarantee. initial measurment will be at fair value.

16. Freight costs paid by you to deliver goods to the consignee should be added to the cost of inventory. Remember that the cost of these goods stays on your books.

17. Loss on uncollectible trade receivable recorded in year 1 from a customer that declared bankruptcy in year 2 - provides additional evidence of conditions that existed at balance sheet date.

18. The most advantageous market for determine fair value is the one where the entity can

19. We use market rate to discount BOTH FACE AND INTEREST PAYMENTS

20. Nonaccelerated filer qualities

21. Economic resources

22. Bank reconicilation bank balance adjustments

23. What do we capitalize for patents?

24. Financing cash flows

25. 3 criteria for capitalizing