Conceptual Framework Quiz

Capturing, for inclusion in the statement of financial position or the statement(s) of financial performance, an item that meets the definition of one of the elements of the financial statements—an asset, a liability, equity, income or expenses

Determining where an item should be presented in the financial statements

Sorting assets, liabilities, equity, income or expenses on the basis of shared characteristics

Adding together of assets, liabilities, equity, income or expenses that have shared characteristics

To assist the International Accounting Standards Board to develop IFRS Standards.

To assist preparers of IFRS financial statements to develop consistent accounting policies when no IFRS Standard applies to a particular transaction or other event, or when a Standard allows a choice of accounting policy.

To assist all parties to understand and interpret IFRS Standards.

All of the above

True

False

Income

Profit or loss

Equity

Other comprehensive income

A portion of an entity

A single entity

More than one entity

All of the above

None of the above

For an asset, derecognition normally occurs when the entity loses control of all or part of the recognised asset

For a liability, derecognition normally occurs when the entity no longer has a present obligation for all or part of the recognised liability

Derecognition is the removal of all or part of a recognised asset or liability from an entity's statement of financial position

All of the above

Relevance is a fundamental qualitative characteristic of useful financial information

Financial information without both relevance and faithful representation is not useful

Enhancing qualitative characteristics cannot make information useful if that information is irrelevant or does not provide a faithful representation of what it purports to represent

All of the above

None of the above

Are never reclassified (recycled) from other comprehensive income into the statement of profit or loss

Are recycled into the statement of profit or loss if the International Accounting Standards Board decides that doing so results in the statement of profit or loss providing more relevant information, or providing a more faithful representation of the entity’s financial performance for that period

Are always recycled into the statement of profit or loss at the end of the holding period of the related asset or liability

Employees, investors and trade union representatives

Existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors

Lenders and other creditors and customers

Existing and potential investors, government agencies and the general public

No

Yes, the Board is not required to use the Conceptual Framework when developing Standards

Yes, but only from aspects of the Conceptual Framework and only if doing so is needed to meet the objective of financial reporting

Comparability and relevance

Relevance and reliability

Relevance, reliability and comparability

Relevance and faithful representation

Comparability, relevance and faithful representation

Variability of cash flows of the asset or liability

How the asset or liability contributes to future cash flows, which depends in part on the nature of an entity's business activities

The level of measurement uncertainty associated with a particular measurement basis

All of the above

None of the above

Separate reporting entities

A partnership

A single reporting entity

A legal entity

True

False

Immediately after it is issued

For annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020, with early application permitted.

Never - the Conceptual Framework is only used by the International Accounting Standards Board

A bias towards understating assets or income and towards overstating liabilities or expenses

The exercise of caution when making judgements under conditions of uncertainty   

A preference towards the earlier recognition of expenses and liabilities than of income and assets

A mechanism for smoothing profits over time (understate profits in good years and overstate profits in bad years)

A form of accounting conservatism

True

False

True

False

Value in use

Fair value

Fulfilment value

Current cost

All of the above

Uncertainty about whether an asset or liability exists

Low probability of an inflow or outflow of economic benefits

Other factors

All of the above

None of the above

A present obligation of the entity arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow from the entity of resources embodyiong economic benefits

A present obligation of the entity to transfer an economic resource as a result of past events   

An amount the entity may have to pay after the end of the reporting period

None of the above

True

False

That an obligation is a duty or responsibility that an entity has no practical ability to avoid

That an obligation can arise from a duty or responsibility conditional on a future action that the entity itself may take, if the entity has no practical ability to avoid taking that action

That an obligation can arise from an entity’s customary practices, published policies or specific statements, if the entity has no practical ability to avoid those practices, policies or statements

All of the above

None of the above

Only predictive value

Only confirmative value

Both predictive and confirmatory value

Either predictive or confirmatory value, or both

Providing information needed to assess management's stewardship is identified as an additional objective of financial reporting, equal in prominence to providing financial information useful to users in making decisions relating to providing resources to the entity

Decisions relating to providing resources to the entity depend on users' assessment of the amount, timing and uncertainty of the prospects for future net cash inflows to the entity and on their assessment of management's stewardship

Providing information needed to assess stewardship is more important than providing information needed to assess the prospects for future cash inflows to the entity

Financial reports are not intended to provide information needed to assess stewardship

A resource controlled by the entity as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity

A present economic resource controlled by the entity as a result of past events

A right to receive income or reduce expenses in the future

None of the above

Management's choice

Legal form of the reporting entity

Information needs of the primary users of the reporting entity

All of the above

None of the above

The statement of profit or loss is the only source of information about an entity’s financial performance for the period

In principle, all income and expenses are included in the statement of profit or loss

All income and expenses included in profit or loss arise from ordinary activities of the entity

All of the above

None of the above

The set of rights arising from legal ownership of the physical object

The physical object

The economic benefits that may flow from the physical object

All of the above

None of the above