Intermediate Accounting (16th Edition)

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118743202
ISBN 13: 978-1-11874-320-1

Chapter 2 - Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting - Review and Practice - Brief Exercises - Page 63: BE2-4

Answer

(a) Verifiability, (b) Comparability, (c) Comparability, (d) Timeliness.

Work Step by Step

The qualitative characteristic of accounting information we are going to use are the enhancing qualities including: Comparability, Verifiability, Timeliness, and Understandability. (a) As the annual reports are audited by certified public accountants, they have the characteristic of Verifiability, (b) As both use the FIFO cost flow assumption, they have the characteristic of Comparability, (c) As the corporation has used straight-line depreciation since it began operations, it maintains a consistency of records and has the characteristic of Comparability, (d) As the company issues its quarterly reports immediately after each quarter ends without any delay, it has the characteristic of Timeliness.
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