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Limitations of financial statements
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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What does the historical cost convention require?

  1. Recording assets at the cost of replacing them
  2. Recording assets at what was paid for them, less depreciation
  3. Recording assets at what they would fetch if sold today
  4. Recording assets at the profit they are expected to generate
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✓ Answer: B — Recording assets at what was paid for them, less depreciation
Award 1 mark. It is chosen for objectivity — a cost is evidenced by an invoice, whereas a current value is an opinion.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Which of these is excluded from the financial statements by the money measurement rule?

  1. The quality of the management team
  2. Inventory held at the year end
  3. A delivery vehicle bought for $95,000
  4. A bank loan repayable in five years
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✓ Answer: A — The quality of the management team
Award 1 mark. It cannot be expressed reliably in money, so it never appears — even though it may matter more to the future of the business than anything that does.
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