ACC 302 – Exam 1 Study Guide
Chapter 13
- Accounting for warranties (assurance-type and service-type)
- Understand the criteria for reporting gain and loss contingencies
- Analyzing current liabilities and company liquidity
- Presentation of current liabilities and refinancing of short-term debt
- Understand how a company accounts for payroll deductions
Chapter 14
- Accounting for bonds and notes payable (including how to determine a premium or
discount, how to record journal entries over the life of a bond/note, and how to use the
effective interest method)
- Understand how to use present value tables to record the issuance of bonds and notes
payable
- Understand the differences between interest-bearing notes and non-interest-bearing notes
- Fair value measurement of long-term liabilities
- Redemption of bonds before maturity date
Chapter 20
- Know the five main components of pension expense and how each is calculated
- Pension plan reporting on the financial statements
- Understand the differences between defined contribution plans and defined benefit plans
- Know how to use a pension worksheet and how to make the annual pension expense
journal entry
- Amortization of prior service costs and the years-of-service method
- Amortization of accumulated OCI-Gain/Loss
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