Chapter 1 Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting Financial Accounting 1 Question 1-1 Financial accounting is concerned with providing relevant financial information about various kinds of organizations to different types of external users. The primary focus of financial accounting is on the financial information provided by profit-oriented companies to their present and potential investors and creditors. Question 1-2 Resources are efficiently allocated if they are given to enterprises that will use them to provide goods and services desired by society and not to enterprises that will waste them. The capital markets are the mechanism that fosters this efficient allocation of resources. Question 1-3 Two extremely important variables that must be considered in any investment decision are the expected rate of return and the uncertainty or risk of that expected return. Question 1-4 In the long run, a company will be able to provide investors and creditors with a rate of return only if it can generate a profit. That is, it must be able to use the resources provided to it to generate cash receipts from selling a product or service that exceeds the cash disbursements necessary to provide that product or service. Question 1-5 The primary objective of financial accounting is to provide investors and creditors with information that will help in evaluating the amounts, timing, and uncertainty of a business enterprise’s future cash receipts and disbursements. Question 1-6 Net operating cash flows are the difference between cash receipts and cash disbursements during a period of time from transactions related to providing goods and services to customers. Net operating cash flows may not be a good indicator of future cash flows because, by ignoring uncompleted transactions, they may not match the accomplishments and sacrifices of the period. Chapter 1 Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW OF KEY TOPICS 2 Answers to Questions (continued) Question 1-7 GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) are a dynamic set of both broad and specific guidelines that a company should follow in measuring and reporting the information in their financial statements and related notes. It is important that all companies follow GAAP so that investors can compare financial information across companies to make their resource allocation decisions. Question 1-8 In 1934, Congress created the SEC and gave it both the power and responsibility for setting accounting and reporting standards for companies whose securities are publicly traded. The SEC has retained the power, but has delegated the responsibility to private sector bodies. The current private sector body responsible for setting accounting standards is the FASB. Question 1-9 Auditors are independent, professional accountants who examine financial statements to express an opinion. The opinion reflects the auditors’ assessment of the statements' fairness, which is determined by the extent to which they are prepared in compliance with GAAP. The auditor adds credibility to the financial statements, which increases the confidence of capital market participants relying on that information. Question 1-10 On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The most dramatic change to federal securities laws since the 1930s, the Act radically redesigns federal regulation of public company corporate governance and reporting obligations. It also significantly tightens accountability standards for directors and officers, auditors, securities analysts and legal counsel. Student opinions as to the relative importance of the key provisions of the act will vary. Key provisions in the order of presentation in the text are: Creation of an Oversight Board Corporate executive accountability Non-audit services Retention of work papers Auditor rotation Conflicts of interest Hiring of auditor Internal control Question 1-11 New accounting standards, or changes in standards, can have significant differential effects on companies, investors and creditors, and other interest groups by causing redistribution of wealth. There also is the possibility that standards could harm the economy as a whole by causing companies to change their behavior. 3 Answers to Questions (continued) Question 1-12 The FASB undertakes a series of elaborate information gathering steps before issuing a substantive accounting standard to determine consensus as to the preferred method of accounting, as well as to anticipate adverse economic consequences. Question 1-13 The purpose of the conceptual framework is to guide the Board in developing accounting standards by providing an underlying foundation and basic reasoning on which to consider merits of alternatives. The framework does not prescribe GAAP. Question 1-14 Relevance and reliability are the primary qualities that make information decision-useful. Relevant information will possess predictive and/or feedback value and also will be provided in a timely manner. Reliability is the extent to which information can be relied upon by users. Question 1-15 The components of relevant information are predictive and/or feedback value and timeliness. The components of reliable information are verifiability, representational faithfulness, and neutrality. Question 1-16 The benefit from providing accounting information is increased decision usefulness. If the information is relevant and reliable, it will improve the decisions made by investors and creditors. However, there are costs to providing information that include costs to gather, process and disseminate that information. There also are costs to users in interpreting the information as well as possible adverse economic consequences that could result from disclosing information. Information should not be provided unless the benefits exceed the costs. Question 1-17 Information is material if it is deemed to have an effect on a decision made by a user. The threshold for materiality will depend principally on the relative dollar amount of the transaction being considered. One consequence of materiality is that GAAP need not be followed in measuring and reporting a transaction if that transaction is not material. The threshold for materiality has been left to subjective judgment. 4 Answers to Questions (continued) Question 1-18 1. Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions or events. 2. Liabilities are probable future sacrifices of economic benefits arising from present obligations of a particular entity to transfer assets or provide services to other entities in the future as a result of past transactions. 3. Equity is the residual interest in the assets of any entity that remains after deducting its liabilities. 4. Investments by owners are increases in equity resulting from transfers of resources, usually cash, to a company in exchange for ownership interest. 5. Distributions to owners are decreases in equity resulting from transfers to owners. 6. Revenues are inflows of assets or settlements of liabilities from delivering or producing goods, rendering services, or other activities that constitute the entity’s ongoing major or central operations. 7. Expenses are outflows or other using up of assets or incurrences of liabilities during a period from delivering or producing goods, rendering services, or other activities that constitute the entity’s ongoing major or central operations. 8. Gains are defined as increases in equity from peripheral or incidental transactions of an entity. 9. Losses represent decreases in equity arising from peripheral or incidental transactions of an entity. 10. Comprehensive income is defined as the change in equity of an entity during a period from nonowner transactions. Question 1-19 The four basic assumptions underlying GAAP are (1) the economic entity assumption, (2) the going concern assumption, (3) the periodicity assumption, and (4) the monetary unit assumption. Question 1-20 The going concern assumption means that, in the absence of information to the contrary, it is anticipated that a business entity will continue to operate indefinitely. This assumption is important to many broad and specific accounting principles such as the historical cost principle. Question 1-21 The periodicity assumption relates to needs of external users to receive timely financial information. This assumption requires that the economic life of a company be divided into artificial periods for financial reporting. Companies usually report to external users at least once a year. 5 Question 1-22 The four key broad accounting principles that guide accounting practice are (1) the historical cost or original transaction value principle, (2) the realization or revenue recognition principle, (3) the matching principle, and (4) the full disclosure principle. Answers to Questions (concluded) Question 1-23 Two important reasons to base valuation on historical cost are (1) historical cost provides important cash flow information since it represents the cash or cash equivalent paid for an asset or received in exchange for the assumption of a liability, and (2) historical cost valuation is the result of an exchange transaction between two independent parties and the agreed upon exchange value is, therefore, objective and possesses a high degree of verifiability. Question 1-24 The realization principle requires that two criteria be satisfied before revenue can be recognized: 1. The earnings process is judged to be complete or virtually complete, and, 2. There is reasonable certainty as to the collectibility of the asset to be received (usually cash). Question 1-25 The four different approaches to implementing the matching principle are: 1. Recognizing an expense based on an exact cause-and-effect relationship between a revenue and expense event. Cost of goods sold is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 2. Recognizing an expense by identifying the expense with the revenues recognized in a specific time period. Office salaries is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 3. Recognizing an expense by a systematic and rational allocation to specific time periods. Depreciation is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 4. Recognizing expenses in the period incurred, without regard to related revenues. Advertising is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. Question 1-26 In addition to the financial statement elements arrayed in the basic financial statements, information is disclosed by means of parenthetical or modifying comments, notes, and supplemental financial statements. 6 BRIEF EXERCISES Brief Exercise 1-1 Revenues ($340,000 + 60,000) $400,000 Expenses: Rent ($40,000 ÷ 2) (20,000) Salaries (120,000) Utilities ($50,000 + 2,000) (52,000) Net income $208,000 Brief Exercise 1-2 (a) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (b) American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) (c) Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Brief Exercise 1-3 (1) Liabilities (2) Assets (3) Revenues (4) Losses Brief Exercise 1-4 1. The periodicity assumption 2. The economic entity assumption 3. The realization principle or revenue recognition principle 4. The matching principle 7 Brief Exercise 1-5 1. The matching principle 2. The historical cost or original transaction value principle 3. The economic entity assumption Brief Exercise 1-6 1. Disagree — The full disclosure principle 2. Agree — The periodicity assumption 3. Disagree — The matching principle 4. Agree — The realization principle or revenue recognition principle 8 Exercise 1-1 Requirement 1 Pete, Pete, and Roy Operating Cash Flow Year 1 Year 2 Cash collected $160,000 $190,000 Cash disbursements: Salaries (90,000) (100,000) Utilities (30,000) (40,000) Purchase of insurance policy (60,000) - 0 - Net operating cash flow $(20,000) $ 50,000 Requirement 2 Pete, Pete, and Roy Income Statements Year 1 Year 2 Revenues $170,000 $220,000 Expenses: Salaries (90,000) (100,000) Utilities (35,000) (35,000) Insurance (20,000) (20,000) Net Income $ 25,000 $ 65,000 Requirement 3 Year 1: Amount billed to customers $170,000 Less: Cash collected (160,000) Ending accounts receivable $ 10,000 Exercise 1-1 (concluded) EXERCISES 9 Year 2: Beginning accounts receivable $ 10,000 Plus: Amounts billed to customers 220,000 $230,000 Less: Cash collected (190,000) Ending accounts receivable $ 40,000 Exercise 1-2 Requirement 1 Year 2 Year 3 Revenues $350,000 $450,000 Expenses: Rent ($80,000 ÷ 2) (40,000) (40,000) Salaries (140,000) (160,000) Travel and entertainment (30,000) (40,000) Advertising (25,000) (20,000)* Net Income $115,000 $190,000 Requirement 2 Amount owed at the end of year one $ 5,000 Advertising costs incurred in year two 25,000 30,000 Amount paid in year two (15,000) Liability at the end of year two 15,000 Less cash paid in year three (35,000) Advertising expense in year three $20,000* Exercise 1-3 Organization Pronouncements 1. Accounting Principles Board e. 2. Financial Accounting Standards Board a., d., and g. 3. Securities and Exchange Commission b. 4. Committee on Accounting Procedure c. 5. AICPA f. 10 Exercise 1-4 Organization Group 1. Securities and Exchange Commission Users 2. Financial Executives International Preparers 3. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Auditors 4. Institute of Management Accountants Preparers 5. Association of Investment Management and Research Users Exercise 1-5 1. Liability 2. Distribution to owner 3. Revenue 4. Assets, liabilities and equity 5. Comprehensive income 6. Gain 7. Loss 8. Equity 9. Asset 10. Net income 11. Investment by owner 12. Expense 11 Exercise 1-6 List A List B o 1. Predictive value a. Decreases in equity resulting from transfers to owners. h 2. Relevance b. Requires consideration of the costs and value of information. g 3. Timeliness c. Important for making interfirm comparisons. a 4. Distribution to owners d. Applying the same accounting practices over time. j 5. Feedback value e. Along with relevance, a primary decision-specific quality. e 6. Reliability f. Agreement between a measure and the phenomenon it purports to represent. n 7. Gain g. Information is available prior to the decision. f 8. Representational faithfulness h. Pertinent to the decision at hand. k 9. Comprehensive income i. Implies consensus among different measurers. p 10. Materiality j. Information confirms expectations. c 11. Comparability k. The change in equity from nonowner transactions. m 12. Neutrality l. The process of admitting information into financial statements. l 13. Recognition m. Accounting information should not favor a particular group. d 14. Consistency n. Results if an asset is sold for more than its book value. b 15. Cost effectiveness o. Information is useful in predicting the future. i 16. Verifiability p. Concerns the relative size of an item and its effect on decisions. Exercise 1-7 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. b 5. b 12 Exercise 1-8 List A List B d 1. Matching principle a. The enterprise is separate from its owners and other entities. g 2. Periodicity b. A common denominator is the dollar. e 3. Historical cost principle c. The entity will continue indefinitely. i 4. Materiality d. Record expenses in the period the related revenue is recognized. h 5. Realization principle e. The original transaction value upon acquisition. c 6. Going concern assumption f. All information that could affect decisions should be reported. b 7. Monetary unit assumption g. The life of an enterprise can be divided into artificial time periods. a 8. Economic entity assumption h. Criteria usually satisfied at point of sale. f 9. Full-disclosure principle i. Concerns the relative size of an item and its effect on decisions. Exercise 1-9 1. The economic entity assumption 2. The periodicity assumption 3. The matching principle (also the going concern assumption) 4. The historical cost or original transaction value principle 5. The realization principle or revenue recognition principle 6. The going concern assumption 7. Materiality Exercise 1-10 1. The historical cost or original transaction value principle 2. The periodicity assumption 3. The realization principle or revenue recognition principle 4. The economic entity assumption 5. The matching principle; materiality 6. The full disclosure principle 13 Exercise 1-11 1. Disagree — Monetary unit assumption 2. Disagree — Full disclosure principle 3. Agree — The matching principle 4. Disagree — Historical cost or original transaction value principle 5. Agree — Realization or revenue recognition principle 6. Agree — Materiality 7. Disagree — Periodicity assumption Exercise 1-12 Statement Assumption, Principle, Constraint 1. f. Realization principle 2. h. Full-disclosure principle 3. g. Matching principle 4. e. Historical cost principle 5. c. Periodicity assumption 6. a. Economic entity assumption 7. i. Cost effectiveness 8. j. Materiality 9. k. Conservatism 10. b. Going concern assumption 11. d. Monetary unit assumption Exercise 1-13 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. d 5. b 6. b 14 Exercise 1-14 1. b. Accounting standards in the United States for nongovernmental entities are set primarily by private sector. The principle standard setters are the FASB and the AICPA’s AcSEC. 2. c. Accounting information is reliable if it is verifiable, is a faithful representation, and is reasonably free of error or bias. 3. c. The four fundamental recognition criteria are: 1) the item meets the definition of an element of financial statements, 2) the item has an attribute measurable with sufficient reliability, 3) the information is relevant, and 4) the information is reliable. In addition, revenue should be recognized when it is realized or realizable and earned. 15 Judgment Case 1-1 Requirement 1 In the 1934 Securities Act, Congress gave the SEC both the power and responsibility for setting accounting and reporting standards for companies whose securities are publicly traded. However, the SEC, a government appointed body, always has delegated the responsibility for setting accounting standards to the private sector. It is important to understand that the SEC delegated only the responsibility, not the authority, to set standards. The power still lies with the SEC. If the SEC does not agree with a particular standard promulgated by the private sector, it can, and has in the past, required a change in the standard. Requirement 2 1. SEC employees may not have the expertise necessary to set accounting standards. 2. By delegating to a private sector body, the cost of setting accounting standards is not borne by taxpayers. 3. By delegating to a private sector body, standards may gain greater acceptance than if dictated by a public (government) body. 4. The SEC now has a buffer group between itself and concerned constituents. The SEC avoids criticism if a mistake is made by the FASB. Research Case 1-2 Requirement 2 The 1933 Act has two basic objectives: 1. To require that investors be provided with material information concerning securities offered for public sale; and 2. To prevent misrepresentation, deceit, and other fraud in the sale of securities. CASES 16 Case 1-2 (concluded) Requirement 3 EDGAR: EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Publicly traded domestic companies use EDGAR to make the majority of their filings. Form 10-K, or 10- KSB, which includes the annual report, is required to be filed on EDGAR. Filings by foreign companies are not required to be filed on EDGAR, but some of these companies do so voluntarily. Research Case 1-3 Requirement 1 The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of financial information. Requirement 2 Answers to these questions will vary depending on the date the research is conducted. 17 Case 1-3 (concluded) Requirement 3 The FASB receives many requests for action on various financial accounting and reporting topics from all segments of a diverse constituency, including the SEC. The auditing profession is sensitive to emerging trends in practice, and consequently it is a frequent source of requests. Overall, requests for action include both new topics and suggested review or reconsideration of existing pronouncements. The FASB is alert to trends in financial reporting through observation of published reports, liaison with interested organizations, and from recommendations from and discussions with the Emerging Issues Task Force. In addition, the staff receives many technical inquiries by letter and by telephone, which may provide evidence that a particular topic, or aspect of an existing pronouncement, has become a problem. The FASB also is alert to changes in the financial reporting environment that may be brought about by new legislation or regulatory decisions. The Board turns to many other organizations and groups for advice and information on various matters, including its agenda. Among the groups with which liaison is maintained are the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, the Accounting Standards Executive Committee and Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA, and the appropriate committees of such organizations as the Association for Investment Management and Research, Financial Executives Institute, Institute of Management Accountants, and Robert Morris Associates. Requirement 4 Answers to these questions will vary depending on the date the research is conducted. Requirement 5 Answers to these questions will vary depending on the date the research is conducted. 18 Research Case 1-4 Requirement 2 In 1978, China’s enterprise reform program was initiated. Prior to 1978, all business enterprises were state owned and run. Now, China’s companies exhibit a considerable range of ownership structures. For example, the Contract Responsibility System was introduced to provide financial incentives to both workers and managers of state-owned enterprises. In addition, many state-owned enterprises were converted into companies with limited liabilities similar to corporations in the United States. Requirement 3 The author feels that the accounting environment in China differs considerably from what is typically presumed by IAS. In particular, the lack of independent/professional auditing in China implies that the proposed detailed IAS- based standards may be counterproductive in China. Communication Case 1-5 In the long run, a company will be able to provide investors with a return only if it can generate a profit. That is, it must be able to use the resources provided by investors and creditors to generate cash receipts from selling a product or service that exceed the cash disbursements necessary to provide that product or service. If this excess cash can be generated, the marketplace is implicitly saying that society’s resources have been efficiently allocated. The marketplace is assigning a value to the product or service that exceeds the value assigned to the resources used to produce that product or service. Pollution costs to society should be borne by the company/individual causing the costs to be incurred. If they are, and the pollution-causing company can still generate a profit, then society’s resources are still being allocated efficiently. From this perspective, it appears that information on pollution costs is relevant information to financial statement users. However, even though this information might be relevant, it would not be reliable. For example, how could we objectively measure the costs to society of dumping hazardous waste into a river? Fish and other river-life will die, drinking water will contain more pollutants, and the river will be a less desirable place for recreation. Some of these costs can be quantified (estimated), but others can’t. It is important that each student actively participate in the process of arriving at a solution. Domination by one or two individuals should be discouraged. Students should be encouraged to contribute to the group discussion by (a) offering 19 information on relevant issues, and (b) clarifying or modifying ideas already expressed, or (c) suggesting alternative direction. Communication Case 1-6 Suggested Grading Concepts and Grading Scheme: Content (70%) _____ 30 Briefly outlines the standard setting process. ____ Role of FASB, SEC. ____ The process. _____ 20 Explains the meaning of economic consequences. _____ 20 Discusses the need to balance accounting considerations and economic consequences. ____ _____ 70 points Writing (30%) _____ 6 Terminology and tone appropriate to the audience of a business journal. _____ 12 Organization permits ease of understanding. ____ Introduction that states purpose. ____ Paragraphs that separate main points. _____ 12 English ____ Sentences grammatically clear and well organized, concise. ____ Word selection. ____ Spelling. ____ Grammar and punctuation. ____ _____ 30 points 20 Ethics Case 1-7 Discussion should include these elements. Auditors' Role in Examining Financial Statements: The function of the auditor is to assure the fairness of financial statements and their compliance with GAAP, not the verification of account correctness. As some items in financial statements are the result of estimates, auditors are unable to provide an opinion as to the exactness of an entity's financial position. The AICPA, in Statement on Auditing Standards 5, suggests that "present fairly" correlates to presenting financial information that is believable, reliable, and not misleading to users of the financial statements. An auditor must provide an independent opinion on an entity's financial statements even though the entity pays the audit fee and the audit company performs other services such as the preparation of tax returns. Sarbanes-Oxley significantly restricts the additional services that an auditor can perform for an audit client. Who is affected? Auditors Company management Company employees and labor unions Current and future shareholders Creditors Financial analysts Government entities Society in general Ethical Values: Ethical values pertaining to auditor responsibility include honesty, integrity, service to the public, lack of bias, independence in attitude as well as appearance, and quality of work in conducting the audit. The AICPA and most state Rules of Conduct demand these qualities of public auditors. 21 Case 1-7 (concluded) Ethical issues or challenges: 1. Pressure from management to bias the audit opinion by threatening to withhold audit fee payment, to hire another audit firm, or to assign tax preparation work to another audit firm. 2. Pressure from management to bias the audit opinion by providing an expensive gift or an outright bribe to the auditor. Auditors should refuse all but nominal gifts from their clients. 3. Pressure to bias the audit opinion in favor of the client because the auditor, or family member, has a financial interest in the client beyond the audit fee. The interest could be in the form of an investment or a loan to or from the client. 4. Pressure to bias the audit opinion in favor of the client because the auditor, or family member, has current or future employment or is in a position of influence with the client. 5. An unfavorable opinion may provoke a lawsuit by investors and other injured parties against both the company and the auditors. Fear of litigation may prompt the auditors to give a favorable or clean opinion, when misleading information exists in the financial statements. Judgment Case 1-8 The two primary qualitative characteristics of accounting information are relevance and reliability. However, these qualities often can conflict, requiring a trade-off between various degrees of relevance and reliability. A forecast of a financial variable may possess a high degree of relevance to investors and creditors. However, a forecast necessarily contains subjectivity in the estimation of future events. Therefore, because of a low degree of reliability, generally accepted accounting principles do not require companies to provide forecasts of any financial variables. 22 Judgment Case 1-9 Requirement 1 Mary will be able to compare the financial statements due to the existence of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These are a dynamic set of both broad and specific guidelines that companies should follow when measuring and reporting the information in their financial statements and related notes. Requirement 2 Auditors examine financial statements to express an opinion on their compliance with GAAP. Judgment Case 1-10 Requirement 1 The desired benefit is that the new standard will provide a better set of information to external users. This will then increase the efficiency of the resource allocation process. Better is defined by the FASB in terms of an appropriate combination of relevance and reliability. Requirement 2 The costs could include increased information-gathering, processing and dissemination costs to the companies affected, increased interpreting costs to users, and adverse economic consequences to the companies, their investors, creditors, employees, other interest groups as well as to society as a whole. Requirement 3 The FASB undertakes a series of elaborate information gathering steps before issuing a substantive accounting standard. These steps include open hearings, deliberations, and requests for written comments. These steps provide information to the FASB as to the possible benefits and costs of the new standard. 23 Judgment Case 1-11 Requirement 1 The realization principle requires that two criteria be satisfied before revenue can be recognized: 1. The earnings process is judged to be complete or virtually complete. 2. There is reasonable certainty as to the collectibility of the asset to be received (which is usually cash). Requirement 2 Disagree. The second criterion necessary for revenue recognition has been satisfied. However, the earnings process is not complete. Revenue should be recognized over the rental period, not at the beginning of the period. Analysis Case 1-12 Requirement 1 The term matched with revenues means that an attempt is made to recognize expenses in the same period as the related revenues. Implicit in this definition is a cause-and-effect relationship between revenue and expense. However, difficulties arise in trying to identify cause-and-effect relationships. Many expenses are not directly incurred because of a revenue event. Requirement 2 The four different approaches to implementing the matching principle are: 1. Recognizing an expense based on an exact cause-and-effect relationship between a revenue and expense event. Cost of goods sold is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 2. Recognizing an expense by identifying the expense with the revenues recognized in a specific time period. Office salaries is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 3. Recognizing an expense by a systematic and rational allocation to specific time periods. Depreciation is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 4. Recognizing expenses in the period incurred, without regard to related revenues. Advertising is an example of an expense recognized by this approach. 24 Case 1-12 (concluded) Requirement 3 a. The cost of producing a product - 1. b. The cost of advertising - 4. c. The cost of monthly rent on the office building - 2. d. The salary of an office employee - 2. e. Depreciation on an office building - 3. Real World Case 1-13 Requirement 1 The company's fiscal year-end was January 30 in 2004 and January 31 in 2003. Requirement 2 a. Total net revenues = $41,444 million b. Total operating expenses = $4,008 million c. Net income = $2,645 million d. Total assets = $19,311 million e. Total stockholders' equity = $6,280 million Requirement 3 The balance sheet reports 2,721 million shares of common stock issued as of January 30, 2004. Requirement 4 The presentation of more than one year facilitates the ability of investors and creditors to compare the profitability of the company over time. This, in turn, provides important information for predicting future results. Solution Manual for Intermediate Accounting David J. Spiceland, James F. Sepe, Lawrence A. Tomassini 9780072994025, 9780072524482
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