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GAAP company. IFRS24-9 Snider Corporation, a publicly traded company, is preparing the interim financial data which it will issue to its shareholders at the end of the first quarter of the 2014–2015 fiscal year. Snider’s financial accounting department has compiled the following summarized revenue and expense data for the first quarter of the year. Sales revenue $60,000,000 Cost of goods sold 36,000,000 Variable selling expenses 1,000,000 Fixed selling expenses 3,000,000 Included in the fixed selling expenses was the single lump-sum payment of $2,000,000 for television adver- tisements for the entire year. Instructions (a) Snider Corporation must issue its quarterly financial statements in accordance with IFRS regarding interim financial reporting. (1) Explain whether Snider should report its operating results for the quarter as if the quarter were a separate reporting period in and of itself, or as if the quarter were an integral part of the annual reporting period. (2) State how the sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and fixed selling expenses would be reflected in Snider Corporation’s quarterly report prepared for the first quarter of the 2014–2015 fiscal year. Briefly justify your presentation. (b) What financial information, as a minimum, must Snider Corporation disclose to its shareholders in its quarterly reports? Professional Research IFRS24-10 As part of the year-end audit, you are discussing the disclosure checklist with your client. The checklist identifies the items that must be disclosed in a set of IFRS financial statements. The client is surprised by the disclosure item related to accounting policies. Specifically, since the audit report will attest to the statements being prepared in accordance with IFRS, the client questions the accounting policy checklist item. The client has asked you to conduct some research to verify the accounting policy disclosures. Instructions Access the IFRS authoritative literature at the IASB website (http://eifrs.iasb.org/). (Click on the IFRS tab and then register for free eIFRS access if necessary.) When you have accessed the documents, you can use the search tool in your Internet browser to respond to the following questions. (Provide paragraph citations.) (a) In general, what should disclosures of accounting policies encompass? (b) List some examples of the most commonly required disclosures. IFRS Insights 1557 International Financial Reporting Problem Marks and Spencer plc IFRS24-11 The financial statements of Marks and Spencer plc (M&S) are available at the book’s companion website or can be accessed at http://annualreport.marksandspencer.com/_assets/downloads/ Marks-and-Spencer-Annual-report-and-financial-statements-2012.pdf. Instructions Refer to M&S’s financial statements and the accompanying notes to answer the following questions. (a) What specific items does M&S discuss in its Note 1—Summary of Significant Accounting Policies? (List the headings only.) (b) For what segments did M&S report segmented information? Which segment is the largest? Who is M&S’s largest customer? (c) What interim information was reported by M&S? ANSWERS TO IFRS SELF-TEST QUESTIONS 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. c 5. a Remember to check the book’s companion website to fi nd additional resources for this chapter.

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GAAP company. IFRS24-9 Snider Corporation, a publicly traded company, is preparing the interim financial data which it will issue to its shareholders at the end of the first quarter of the 2014–2015 fiscal year. Snider’s financial accounting department has compiled the following summarized revenue and expense data for the first quarter of the year. Sales revenue $60,000,000 Cost of goods sold 36,000,000 Variable selling expenses 1,000,000 Fixed selling expenses 3,000,000 Included in the fixed selling expenses was the single lump-sum payment of $2,000,000 for television adver- tisements for the entire year. Instructions (a) Snider Corporation must issue its quarterly financial statements in accordance with IFRS regarding interim financial reporting. (1) Explain whether Snider should report its operating results for the quarter as if the quarter were a separate reporting period in and of itself, or as if the quarter were an integral part of the annual reporting period. (2) State how the sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and fixed selling expenses would be reflected in Snider Corporation’s quarterly report prepared for the first quarter of the 2014–2015 fiscal year. Briefly justify your presentation. (b) What financial information, as a minimum, must Snider Corporation disclose to its shareholders in its quarterly reports? Professional Research IFRS24-10 As part of the year-end audit, you are discussing the disclosure checklist with your client. The checklist identifies the items that must be disclosed in a set of IFRS financial statements. The client is surprised by the disclosure item related to accounting policies. Specifically, since the audit report will attest to the statements being prepared in accordance with IFRS, the client questions the accounting policy checklist item. The client has asked you to conduct some research to verify the accounting policy disclosures. Instructions Access the IFRS authoritative literature at the IASB website (http://eifrs.iasb.org/). (Click on the IFRS tab and then register for free eIFRS access if necessary.) When you have accessed the documents, you can use the search tool in your Internet browser to respond to the following questions. (Provide paragraph citations.) (a) In general, what should disclosures of accounting policies encompass? (b) List some examples of the most commonly required disclosures. IFRS Insights 1557 International Financial Reporting Problem Marks and Spencer plc IFRS24-11 The financial statements of Marks and Spencer plc (M&S) are available at the book’s companion website or can be accessed at http://annualreport.marksandspencer.com/_assets/downloads/ Marks-and-Spencer-Annual-report-and-financial-statements-2012.pdf. Instructions Refer to M&S’s financial statements and the accompanying notes to answer the following questions. (a) What specific items does M&S discuss in its Note 1—Summary of Significant Accounting Policies? (List the headings only.) (b) For what segments did M&S report segmented information? Which segment is the largest? Who is M&S’s largest customer? (c) What interim information was reported by M&S? ANSWERS TO IFRS SELF-TEST QUESTIONS 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. c 5. a Remember to check the book’s companion website to fi nd additional resources for this chapter.