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Who are the primary users to whom general purpose financial reports are directed?

  • General economic conditions and expectations
  • Existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors (correct)
  • The management of a reporting entity
  • Regulators and members of the public other than investors, lenders, and other creditors

    • What information do general purpose financial reports provide to existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors?

  • Pertinent information from other sources (correct)
  • The maximum number of primary users
  • All the information they need
  • The value of a reporting entity

    • Who else may find general purpose financial reports useful?

  • Existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors
  • Regulators and members of the public other than investors, lenders, and other creditors (correct)
  • General economic conditions and expectations
  • The management of a reporting entity

    • What do financial reports primarily rely on?

    <p>Estimates, judgements, and models</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the objective of general purpose financial reporting?

    <p>To provide financial information about the reporting entity that is useful to existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the decisions that existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors make based on the financial information provided?

    <p>Buying, selling or holding equity and debt instruments; providing or settling loans and other forms of credit; exercising rights to vote on, or otherwise influence, management’s actions that affect the use of the entity’s economic resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What information do existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors need to make assessments about the entity's economic resources and management's stewardship?

    <p>Information about the economic resources of the entity, claims against the entity and changes in those resources and claims; and information about how efficiently and effectively the entity’s management and governing board have discharged their responsibilities to use the entity’s economic resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: Existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors can require reporting entities to provide information directly to them.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: General purpose financial reports provide all of the information that existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors need.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The management of a reporting entity relies on general purpose financial reports to obtain the financial information it needs.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: General purpose financial reports are primarily directed to regulators and members of the public other than investors, lenders, and other creditors.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The objective of general purpose financial reporting is to provide financial information about the reporting entity that is useful to existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors in making decisions relating to providing resources to the entity.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The assessment of management's stewardship of the entity's economic resources is not important for existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors in making their decisions.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The decisions made by existing and potential investors, lenders, and other creditors depend on their expectations about the amount, timing, and uncertainty of future net cash inflows to the entity.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

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