Accounting for Multinational Corporations Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Accounting for Multinational Corporations explores the unique accounting issues and practices that arise when businesses operate across multiple countries. The course covers topics such as foreign currency transactions and translation, international financial reporting standards (IFRS), transfer pricing, international taxation, and the consolidation of financial statements for global entities. Students will analyze how cultural, economic, and regulatory differences impact financial decision-making and reporting in multinational environments, preparing them to navigate the complexities of global accounting practices.
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International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises 6th Edition by Lee H. Radebaugh
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Chapter 1: International Accounting and International Business
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Q1) When examining the lists of the largest corporations in the world, it is obvious that
A) European firms dominate the list of large and most profitable firms.
B) exchange rates have the potential of distorting the list.
C) Japanese companies are the largest in sales and most profitable in the world.
D) U.S. companies are the largest in sales but are not among the most profitable.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement concerning MNEs?
A) Developing country MNEs tend to come from the industrial sector rather than the services and utilities sectors
B) There are no MNEs from developing countries due to small market size.
C) Top developing country MNEs tend to come from Eastern Europe.
D) Latin American and Asian MNEs are the most significant of the emerging market companies.
Answer: D
Q3) One trend in European securities markets is consolidation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: International Accounting Patterns, Culture and Development
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Q1) One of Gray's accounting values is "uniformity versus flexibility."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The EU has embarked on a major program of harmonization that will coordinate all of the following except
A) accounting
B) company law
C) monetary systems
D) urbanization
Answer: D
Q3) International forces for change:
A) directly affect accounting values
B) do not directly affect accounting values
C) directly affect accounting systems
D) do not directly affect physical environment factors
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Comparative International Financial Accounting
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Q1) The SEC acts in a supervisory capacity over FASB
A) never
B) rarely
C) frequently
D) always
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following accurately reflects Japanese accounting?
A). There are no significant legal requirements due to the adherence to a flexible approach to accounting.
B) Accounting standards are set by a government body.
C) According to the measurement and disclosure scales in Gray's model, the Japanese would lean to secrecy
D) Secret reserves are an accounting issue
Answer: B
Q3) Japanese prepare an additional set financial statements in English.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Comparative International Financial Accounting
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Q1) The Malaysian accounting system
A) has similar tax and book accounts
B) aims to provide for the information needs of investors
C) is based on a macro-economic justification
D) takes a flexible approach
Q2) Many of Russia's soviet-style production units continue to exist with losses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a significant impact on Czech Republic accounting?
A) The accession to the EU.
B) A business economics approach to accounting in the Czech Republic has resulted in widespread use of inflation-adjusted accounting.
C) The effect of tax law is minimal, because tax and book accounting are not allowed to be the same.
D) The Nordic legal tradition has had a strong impact on accounting standards and practices.
Q4) India's accounting system is of a British origin.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: International Financial Statement Analysis
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Q1) Research on the stock market
A) is certain about the international accounting differences and the US stock market B) shows value relevance for Form 20-F reconciliations
C) of Pope and Rees indicates that the UK GAAP earnings adjustment information has incremental information for dual listed firms in the US and UK D) greater power distance for non US firms
Q2) The number of companies that follow IASC standards
A) has declined from its founding B) has remained about the same from its founding C) has increased from its founding D) none of the above
Q3) For purposes of financial analysis it is important to assess the differential impact of accounting principles on A) return on equity B) professionalism C) individualism D) power distance
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Chapter 6: International Transparency and Disclosure
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Q1) The recent Asian financial crisis
A) might have been prevented with decreased transparency
B) was the result of inconsistent accounting standards
C) could have been prevented with better computer systems
D) might have been prevented with increased transparency
Q2) There are direct and indirect costs of disclosure.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Competitive disadvantage
A) of increased disclosure will likely increase business incentives in the long term
B) affects the cost of data collection and processing.
C) is the most important cost factor in voluntary disclosures
D) increases direct disclosure costs
Q4) Which of the following are considered by managers to generate the greatest cost of competitive disadvantage?
A) line of business profits, narrowly defined.
B) inflation adjusted profits.
C) a description of organizational structure.
D) quarterly interim financial statements.
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Chapter 7: International Accounting Standards and Global Convergence
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Q1) All of the following are trade unions except A) ETUC
B) ICFTU
C) WCL
D) IASC
Q2) International accounting firms are not active in the international harmonization of accounting and reporting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true concerning the impact of the United Nations on accounting?
A) The U.N. generally represents the wishes of industrial countries.
B) It has been more effective at monitoring accounting practices than at setting accounting standards.
C) It has not been able to establish guidelines for accounting practices due to internal disagreements.
D) It has been interested in nonfinancial rather than financial disclosures.
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Chapter 8: International Business Combinations, Goodwill and Intangibles
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Q1) Research and development costs
A) are generally written off immediately to earnings in the United States.
B) are typically capitalized and amortized.
C) are not very significant due to the lack of R&D being done in the U.S. currently.
D) are split into two parts by the IASB. Research costs should be capitalized, whereas development costs should be written off.
Q2) In the UK merger accounting means
A) purchase accounting
B) joint-venture accounting
C) pooling accounting
D) goodwill accounting
Q3) According to the 7th Directive of the EU,
A) proportional consolidation is not permitted.
B) consolidation can only occur when one firm owns a majority of the shares with voting rights of another company.
C) the definition of a group is a good example of a compromise.
D) the Germans did not have to make many changes in their consolidation practices.
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Chapter 9: International Segment Reporting
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Q1) A major value of segment information for users is that
A) it focuses on issues other than cash flows.
B) in the United States, GAAP requires firms to disclose segment information by major country.
C) it provides information to investors that might involve cost of preparation but not cost of competitive advantage.
D) it allows users who have different information needs to get disaggregated information that might be of use to them.
Q2) According to predictive ability tests of segment reports,
A) it has clearly been proven that users use disaggregated information to make forecasts.
B) forecasts based on line of business data are not as accurate as those based on geographic segments.
C) forecasts based on segment earnings are more accurate than those based on segment sales.
D) segment information is not useful for small firms.
Q3) Segment identification is very easy in practice.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Foreign Currency Transactions and Translation
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Q1) Options are the right but not the obligation to trade foreign currency in the future.
A)True
B)False
Q2) From the standpoint of the parent company, a foreign currency is
A) the currency in which the parent company prepares its financial statements.
B) any currency other than the parent currency.
C) the currency of the primary economic environment in which the firm operates.
D) the currency in the country where the foreign firm is operating.
Q3) Assuming the tax treatment for foreign currency transactions, what is the foreign exchange gain or loss on June 30?
A) $ 750 loss
B) $ 750 gain
C) $1125 loss
D) $1875 loss
E) gain or loss is deferred
Q4) In the current rate method the assets are translated at market on the balance sheet date.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: International Accounting for Price Changes
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Q1) Philips introduced current value financial statements
A) to be consistent with international accounting standards
B) because no company was using general purchasing power adjustments
C) for internal cost accounting purposes
D) to consolidate the Indonesian subsidiary
Q2) Current cost accounting is required in the I..UK
II..US
A) only I
B) only II
C) I and II
D) neither I nor II
Q3) What is the trend in inflation accounting in South American countries of Argentina and Brazil
A) change to current cost accounting
B) dropping of inflation accounting
C) change to general purchasing power adjustments
D) continued use of an index in general purchasing power statements
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Chapter 12: Corporate Governance and Control of Global Operations
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Q1) For IT, economies of scale result in A) worldwide innovation.
B) local differentiation.
C) global integration.
D) lateral relations.
Q2) The movement of business data electronically between or within firms in a structured, computer-processable data format is known as A) decentralization.
B) globalization.
C) Electronic Data Interchange.
D) routine transfers.
Q3) A decentralized, independent strategy is symbolic of a A) multidomestic strategy.
B) global strategy.
C) transnational strategy.
D) geocentric strategy.
Q4) The use of external experts is common in the international division structure. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Foreign Exchange Risk Management
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Q1) An option is considered "in-the-money" if the strike price is unfavorable relative to the market price.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the United States, derivatives held for trading or speculative purposes are
A) carried at the original spot rate.
B) are deferred and amortized over the useful life of the derivative.
C) are marked-to-market.
D) and not permitted in the case of foreign currencies.
Q3) The choice of exposures to be hedged depends on
A) the desired return on equity
B) the use of options and futures
C) the risk aversion of the company
D) the international Fisher effect
Q4) What is the dollar value of the sale on July 15?
A) $120,750
B) $120,000
C) $119,625
D) $121,500
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Chapter 14: International Budgeting and Performance Evaluation
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Q1) A challenge for the strategic control process is
A) clarity in planning
B) the process gets big and bureacratized
C) nonfinancial measures
D) annual operating plans
Q2) Which of the following describe some of the national practices in performance evaluation techniques.
A) British firms rely more on ROI and sales growth.
B) U.S. firms rely more on budgets than do British firms.
C) Japanese firms rely more on sales growth and market share than do U.S. firms.
D) All of the above.
Q3) Global innovators and integrated players tend to rely more on outcome controls than on behavioral controls.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Benchmarking performance based on global competitors is sound practice, because since it is easy to get good data on them.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: International Auditing Issues
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Q1) Reciprocity in the accounting profession means that
A) practitioners certified in one country should be allowed to practice in another country.
B) the U.S. will grant reciprocity to accountants from Anglo-Saxon traditions, but not from other countries.
C) accountants are allowed to practice but not certify outside of their countries.
D) audit reports should be accepted in different countries.
Q2) International auditing standards
A) make it more difficult for developing countries to produce domestic auditing standards
B) are principally generated by FASB
C) are created and reviewed by G11 summits
D) provide incentives to improve and extend the set of international accounting standards
Q3) Sarbanes-Oxley prohibits all of the following services to audit clients except A) tax
B) bookkeeping
C) financial information systems design
D) internal audit outsourcing
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Chapter 16: International Taxation Issues
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Q1) According to the tax credit,
A) companies are allowed to defer the recognition of income until a dividend has been declared by the foreign corporation.
B) income can be excluded from U.S. taxation.
C) firms can reduce their tax liability by the amount of income taxes paid to foreign governments.
D) credits can be given for active but not passive income.
Q2) The price set on goods and services transferred between a parent and subsidiary is known as a (an)
A) transfer price.
B) arms-length price.
C) allocation price.
D) none of the above.
Q3) The concept where the tax effect should not have an impact on business decisions is
A) double taxation.
B) a tax incentive.
C) equity.
D) neutrality.
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