Matching Accounting Changes to Situations

question 95

Essay

Matching accounting changes to situations.The four types of accounting changes, including error correction, are:Code
a. Change in accounting principle.
b. Change in accounting estimate.
c. Change in reporting entity.
d. Error correction.

Instructions
Following are a series of situations. You are to enter a code letter to the left to indicate the type of change.
1. Change from presenting nonconsolidated to consolidated financial statements.
2. Change due to charging a new asset directly to an expense account.
3. Change from expensing to capitalizing certain costs, due to a change in periods benefited.
4. Change from FIFO to LIFO inventory procedures.
5. Change due to failure to recognize an accrued (uncollected) revenue.
6. Change in amortization period for an intangible asset.
7. Changing the companies included in combined financial statements.
8. Change in the loss rate on warranty costs.
9. Change due to failure to recognize and accrue income.
10. Change in residual value of a depreciable plant asset.
11. Change from an unacceptable to an acceptable accounting principle.
12. Change in both estimate and acceptable accounting principles.
13. Change due to failure to recognize a prepaid asset.
14. Change from straight-line to sum-of-the-years'-digits method of depreciation.
15. Change in life of a depreciable plant asset.
16. Change from one acceptable principle to another acceptable principle.
17. Change due to understatement of inventory.
18. Change in expected recovery of an account receivable.

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Definitions:

Net Profit Margin

It is a financial metric that indicates how efficient a company is at generating profit compared to its revenue, expressed as a percentage.

Gross Profit Margin

The difference between sales and the cost of goods sold, expressed as a percentage of sales, indicating the efficiency of a company in managing its production and labor costs.

Asset Turnover Ratio

A financial metric that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue.

Assets

Economic resources owned or controlled by an individual or entity that are expected to provide future benefits.