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GAAP: Inside and Out

  • ITEM SKU
    5270
  • CPE Hours
    16
  • Full Course Price
    $109.50
Exam Questions: 80
Course Level: Basic
Pages: 392 | Content: 380, Supplemental: 12
NASBA Area of Study: Accounting
Not Acceptable for: Enrolled Agents
Version: 5270V

This course covers a variety of issues related to GAAP, including the unusual reporting and disclosure issues that develop in practice, such as how to disclose life insurance, leases, catastrophes, and tax-basis financial statements. Most of the course is in a Q&A format. PLEASE NOTE: Course material is similar to #7345: Tax Basis Financial Statements; therefore, we recommend that you should not take both courses in the same CPE reporting period. Not acceptable for Enrolled Agents. All course material provided. Prerequisites: General understanding of GAAP and tax-basis financial statements. Course level: Basic.

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Table of Contents
  • GAAP Q & A - Balance Sheet
  • GAAP Q & A - Revenue and Expenses
  • Tax - Basis Q & A
Objectives
  • To recall the accounting treatment for non-monetary exchanges
  • To recognize the formula for measuring an impairment of real estate
  • To identify the accounting for different types of investments such as securities, investments using the equity method, and partnerships
  • To recognize the types of information that should be used in computing the allowance account for trade receivables
  • To recognize how FIFO inventory is valued under the inventory rules
  • To recall certain inventoriable costs
  • To recall the GAAP rules to account for an intangible asset with a finite useful life
  • To identify the accounting for environmental contamination costs
  • To identify examples of costs associated with exit activities
  • To recognize how an entity should account for revenue when treated as an agent
  • To identify options to avoid having to maintain two depreciation schedules
  • To recognize how to account for certain transactions on the statement of cash flows
  • To identify examples of group concentrations
  • To recognize some of the results from the net operating loss rules in tax reform
  • To identify the basic accounting for fresh start reporting
  • To identify how web development costs are accounted for during certain stages of development
  • To recognize when an entity may elect the fair value option and identify some of the eligible items for which the option is available
  • To recognize the basic rule for the liquidation basis of accounting
  • To recognize some of the M-1 differences that do not apply to tax-basis financial statements
  • To recognize how to account for an accounting change in tax-basis financial statements
  • To recall how to account for and present nontaxable and nondeductible items in tax-basis financial statements
  • To identify the disclosure requirements for tax-basis financial statements
  • To recognize the appropriate and inappropriate financial statement titles for tax-basis financial statements

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