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Questão 1
Questão
Which of the following is not a rationale for regulating financial accounting information?
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To protect users from fraudulent or misleading information.
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A market for information without regulation is inefficient, and may result in the production of a sub-optimal amount of information.
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To assist management with better information, and to provide reports for use by management and parties within the organisation.
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To ensure equal access to information by all interested parties, including those that have limited power to demand it.
Questão 2
Questão
Which theoretical perspective suggests that where firms are able to choose accounting methods, they will choose those that best reflect their economic performance?
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Opportunistic perspective
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Efficiency perspective
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Creative accounting perspective
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Economic interest perspective
Questão 3
Questão
According to some free-market theorists, there are private economics-based incentives for the organisation that will ensure that credible information will be provided. Which of the following assumptions is not consistent with this?
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Managers will provide true and correct information for fear of not being rewarded, or fired for not doing so.
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Shareholders will assume managers will act opportunistically and so, in the absence of safeguards, will pay less for shares.
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Lenders will price protect, in that the higher the preserved risk, the higher will be the cost of loan funds demanded.
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All of the given options are correct.
Questão 4
Questão
Which of the following assumptions of the market for corporate takeovers can be criticised for being unrealistic in practice?
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An under-performing firm will be taken over by another firm, which will then subsequently replace the current management team.
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Managers will be motivated to maximise the firm's value to minimise the likelihood that outsiders could seize control.
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Management will know the marginal cost and benefit involved in producing the optimum amount of information required to minimise the firm's cost of capital.
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All of the given options are correct.
Questão 5
Questão
Which of the following was not one of the pieces of evidence put forward by Walker (1987) to argue that the ASRB had been captured by the accounting profession?
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The accounting profession's AARF proposals for standards were fast-tracked, but more stringent requirements were in place for others.
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The profession influenced new appointments to the AASB so that, after just 2 years, virtually all members had some community of interest with the professional accounting bodies.
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The whole of AARF was merged with the AADB in 1987.
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By the beginning of 1986, the accounting profession indirectly managed to influence the procedures, priorities and output of the AASB.
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