Financial Accounting Framework: Chapter 1 Quiz

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What is the primary focus of financial accounting?

  • Communicating business activities of a company
  • Analyzing business activities of a company
  • Measuring business activities of a company (correct)
  • Recording business activities of a company

Which term best describes the accounting information provided to external users?

  • Cost accounting
  • Financial accounting (correct)
  • Managerial accounting
  • Tax accounting

What are the two primary functions of financial accounting?

  • Monitoring and controlling business activities
  • Recording and analyzing business activities
  • Forecasting and budgeting business activities
  • Measuring and communicating business activities (correct)

Which statement accurately describes the focus of financial accounting?

<p>It focuses on measuring and communicating business activities to external users (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of information does financial accounting provide to external users?

<p>Historical financial performance information (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which function does financial accounting not serve?

<p>Providing real-time business performance data (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the functions of financial accounting?

<p>To measure business activities and communicate information to investors and creditors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three basic forms of business entities mentioned in the text?

<p>Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the advantage of a corporation being legally separate from its owners?

<p>Stockholders have limited liability (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the advantages of a sole proprietorship mentioned in the text?

<p>Easy to start, Taxed at personal tax rate (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the disadvantages of a partnership mentioned in the text?

<p>Partners jointly share unlimited liability (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the accounting equation mentioned in Illustration 1-3?

<p>$Assets = Total resources of the company$; $Liabilities = Amounts owed to creditors$ (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are financing activities according to the text?

<p>Transactions with investors and creditors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do operating activities relate to according to the text?

<p>Primary operations of the company (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a partnership?

<p>A business owned by two or more persons (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a corporation according to the text?

<p>A company that is legally separate from its owners (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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