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Intermediate Accounting
Chapter 6
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
02/23/2012

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Term
Time Value of Money
Definition
a relationship between time and money
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Notes
Definition
valuing non-current receivables and payable that carry no stated interest rate or a lower than market interest rate.
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Leases
Definition
Valuing assets and obligations to be capitalized under long-term leases and measuring the amount of the lease payments and annual leasehold amortization.
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Pensions and other Post-retirement Benefit
Definition
measuring service cost components of employers' post-retirement benefits expense and obligations
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Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Long-term assets
Definition
evaluting alternative long-term investments by discounting future cash flows. determining the value of assets acquired under deferred payment contracts. measuring impairments of assets.
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Stock-Based Compensation
Definition
Determining the fair value of employee services in compensatory stock-option plans.
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: Business Combinations
Definition
Determining the value of receivables, payables, liabilities, acrrruals, and commitment acquired or assumed in a "purchase."
Term
Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: disclosures
Definition
measuring the value of future cash flows from oil and gas reserves for disclosure in supplementary information.
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Present Value-Based Accounting Measurements: environmental liabilities
Definition
determining the fair value of future obligation for asset retirements.
Term
interest
Definition
payment for the use of money
Term
principal
Definition
excess cash received or repaid over and above the amount lent or borrowed
Term
time
Definition
number of years or fractional portion of a year that the principal is outstanding
Term
simple interest
Definition
Interest= P * i * n

computed on the amount of principal only
Term
compound interest
Definition
computed on the amount of principal and on any interest earned that has not been paid or withdrawn, may be compounded more than once a year
Term
compound interest: compute total number of compounding periods
Definition
multiply the number of years by the number of compounding periods per year
Term
compound interest: compute compounding period interest rate
Definition
divide annual interest rate by number of compounding periods per year
Term
Interest tables and their contents:
Future Value of 1 table
Definition
contains the amounts to which 1 will accumulate if deposited now at a specified rate and left for a specified number of periods.

-accumulation

FV= PV * (FVFn,i)
Term
Interest tables and their contents:
Present Value of 1 table
Definition
contains the amounts that must be deposited at a specified rate of interest to equal 1 at the end of a specified number of periods.
Term
Interest tables and their contents:
Future value of an ordinary annuity of 1 table
Definition
contains the amounts to which periodic rents of 1 will accumulate if the payments (rents) are invested at the end of each period at a specified rate of interest for a specified number of periods.
Term
Interest tables and their contents:
present value of an ordinary annuity of 1 table
Definition
contains the amounts that must be deposited now at a specified rate of interest to permit withdrawals of 1 at the end of a regular periodic intervals for the specified number of periods.
Term
Interest tables and their contents:
Present value of an annuity due of 1 table
Definition
contains the amounts that must be deposited now at a specified rate of interest to permit withdrawals of 1 at the beginning of regular periodic intervals for the specified number of periods.
Term
future value
Definition
value at a future date of a given sum or sums invested assuming compound interest
Term
present value
Definition
value now of a future sum or sums discounted assuming compound interest.
Term
Single-Sum Problems:
Unknown Future Value
Definition
accumulate all cash flows to a future point, interest increases the amounts of values overtime so that the future value exceeds the present value
Term
Single-Sum Problems:
Unknown Present Value
Definition
discount all cash flows from the future to the present,
discounting reduces the amounts or values, so present value is less than future amount
Term
Future Value of a Single Sum
Definition
FV = PV (FVFn,i)
Term
Present Value of a Single Sum
Definition
PVFn,i= 1/(1+i)^n

or
PV= FV (PVFn,i)
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