Debt vs equity
Types of bonds
notes, contingencies, and deferrals
Accounting Codification
the grab bag
100

this financial statement item usually comes with a right to enforce payment.

What are bonds?

100

These types of bonds are typically issued by private companies to generate short term capital.

What are corporate bonds?

100

these are the primary issuers of notes payable.

What are banks and private lenders?

100

This IFRS guidance defines financial liabilities as contractual obligations to deliver cash or another financial asset to another enterprise.

What is IAS no.32?

100

This trait is what sets apart short term and long term liabilities.

What is a term longer than a year?

200

 this type of debt possesses aspects of both debt and equity.

  • What is convertible debt?

200

these types of bonds are considered to be among some of the lowest risk bonds.

What are government bonds?

200

Deferrals usually result from this type of accounting system.

What is double entry accounting?

200

This IFRS guidance allows companies to perform hedge accounting methods assuming proper criteria have been met.

What is IFRS no.9?

200

This company recently fell into the junk bond category as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

What is the ford motor company?

300

one of the main reasons for issuing stocks over bonds is to keep this off the books.

What is debt?

300

the use of borrowed funds resulting from bonds is known as this.

What is financial leverage?

300

This deferral is no longer considered to meet the proper definitions of a deferral and is closer to asset valuation.

What is unrealized gross profit?

300

 IFRS no.7 has disclosure requirements for this financial item at fair value and at amortized cost.

What are financial liabilities?

300

Zero coupon bonds are the most appealing to this group of people.

What are pensioners?

400

Securities issued by a company in a dire financial situation are most likely to be considered this.

What is equity?

400

Zero coupon bonds amortize this figure over time in lieu of a traditional periodic interest expense.

What is the deep discount?

400

This FASB statement established the two primary types of contingencies, gain and loss contingencies.

What is SFAS no.5 / accounting for contingencies?

400

 IAS no.37 indicates that these should be recognized in the balance sheet when an enterprise has a present obligation as a result of a past event with a high probability of a large expenditure that can be reasonably estimated will be required to settle it.

What are provisions?

400

This theory depicts the accounting equation as assets = equity.

What is the entity theory?

500

Upon issuing this guidance, companies became required by the IFRS to report mandatorily redeemable preferred stock as a liability on balance sheets.

What is SFAS no.150?

500

the accounting principles board issued this statement that established a standardized method to record the gain or loss resulting from a call provision.

What is opinion no.26 / early extinguishment of debt?

500

according to this principle, reporting deferred credits requires that revenue recognition be postponed until there is assurance that it’s earned while expenses are to be recorded as incurred.

What is conservatism? 

500

 This IFRS guidance defines the difference between short and long term liabilities.

What is IAS no.1?

500

This term is used to refer to any financial statement items that possess characteristics of both debt and equity.

What are complex financial instruments?