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Financial Accounting
,
2004e (Eighth Edition)
Belverd E. Needles, Jr., DePaul University
Marian Powers, Northwestern University
Learning Objectives
Chapter 5: Financial Reporting and Analysis
1. State the objectives of financial reporting.
2. State the qualitative characteristics of accounting information and describe their interrelationships.
3. Define and describe the conventions of
comparability
and
consistency
,
materiality
,
conservatism
,
full
disclosure
, and
cost
-
benefit
.
4. Explain management's responsibility for ethical financial reporting and define
fraudulent
financial
reporting
.
5. Identify and describe the basic components of a classified balance sheet.
6. Prepare multistep and single-step classified income statements. Evaluate liquidity and profitability using classified financial statements.
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