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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. What depreciation method does not use salvage value?

2. Held for sale assets are classified as

3. When the double-extension approach to the dollar-value LIFO inventory method is used, the inventory layer added in the current year is multiplied by an index number. Which of the following correctly states how components are used in the calculation of this index number?

4. Lore Co. changed from the cash basis of accounting to the accrual basis of accounting during the year just ended. The cumulative effect of this change should be reported in Lore's financial statements for the year as a

5. Conceptually, interim financial statements can be described as emphasizing

6. Bonds payable issue costs balance sheet classification

7. When is a write-down on AFS securities included in net income

8. Software, biological compounds/drug formulas, completed media content - Revenue is recognized at initiation!

9. What do we do if costs are capitalized during the year on an item we are already depreciating/amortizing?

10. net income/avg total assets or avg total equity

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

12. Nonaccelerated filer filing deadlines

13. Current portion of lease liability for a financing lease

14. Standard for valuation allowance for DTA

15. What is the entry for a DTL?

16. Ignore it. It doesn't exist.

17. Cash flows from investing and financing activities. Cash inflows from financing activities include receipts of resources that are donor-restricted for long-term purposes. Accordingly, cash donor-restricted to (a) acquiring, constructing, or improving long-lived assets (e.g., a building or equipment) or (b) establishing or increasing a donor-restricted endowment fund is a cash inflow from a financing activity. Moreover, it is also reported as a cash outflow from an investing activity. Receipts of investment income (cash interest and dividends) that are donor-restricted for such purposes also are financing cash inflows.

18. During Year 3, Gilman Co. purchased 5,000 shares of the 500,000 outstanding shares of Meteor Corp.'s common stock for $35,000. During Year 3, Gilman received $1,800 of dividends from its investment in Meteor's stock. The fair value of Gilman's investment on December 31, Year 3, is $32,000. Gilman has elected the fair value option for this investment. What amount of income or loss that is attributable to the Meteor stock investment should be reflected in Gilman's earnings for Year 3?

19. 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.

20. Appropriation for contingencies balance sheet classification

21. Debt to Equity Ratio

22. An asset classified as held for sale has been reclassified as held and used. The asset is measured at the

23. How to calculate NRV - PM for LCM

24. What is A/R factoring

25. How do you find effective tax rate?