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Q1) What is the major objective of financial reporting? Provide information that is useful to management in making decisions

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Q1) What is the major objective of financial reporting? Provide information that is useful to management in making decisions. Provide information that clearly portrays nonfinancial transactions. Provide information that excludes claims to the resources. Provide information that is useful to present and potential equity investors, lenders, and other creditors in making decisions. Q2: What are the two key organizations in the development of international accounting standards? Explain their role. Q3: Select the qualitative characteristics for the following statements. a. Quality of information that assures users that information represents the economic phenomena that it purports to represent. b. Information about an economic phenomenon that changes past or present expectations based on previous evaluations. c. The extent to which information is accurate in representing the economic substance of a transaction. d. Includes all the information that is necessary for a faithful representation of the economic phenomena that it purports to represent. e. Quality of information that allows users to comprehend its meaning. select a qualitative characteristic select a qualitative characteristic select a qualitative characteristic select a qualitative characteristic select a qualitative characteristic Q4: Identify which basic assumption of accounting is best described in each of the following items. a. The economic activities of FedEx Corporation (USA) are divided into 12-month periods for the purpose of issuing annual reports. select an assumption b. Total S.A. (FRA) does not adjust amounts in its financial statements for the effects of inflation. select an assumption c. Barclays (GBR) reports current and non-current classifications in its statement of financial position. select an assumption d. The economic activities of Tokai Rubber Industries (JPN) and its subsidiaries are merged for accounting and reporting p Q5: For each item below, indicate to which category of elements of financial statements it belongs. a. Retained earnings select a category b. Sales select a category c. Share Premium select a category d. Inventory select a category e. Depreciation select a category f. Loss on sale of equipment select a category g. Interest payable select a category h. Dividends select a category i. Gain on sale of investment select a category j. Issuance of ordinary shares select a category