Question

(Interim Reporting) Snider Corporation, a publicly traded company, is preparing the interim financial data which it will issue to its stockholders and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at the end of the first quarter of the 2017–2018 fiscal year. Snider’s financial accounting department has compiled the following summarized revenue and expense data for the first quarter of the year.

Sales revenue \(60,000,000

Cost of goods sold 36,000,000

Variable selling expenses 1,000,000

Fixed selling expenses 3,000,000

Included in the fixed selling expenses was the single lump-sum payment of \)2,000,000 for television advertisements for the entire year.

Instructions

1. Snider Corporation must issue its quarterly financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles regarding interim financial reporting.
2. Explain whether Snider should report its operating results for the quarter as if the quarter were a separate reporting period in and of itself, or as if the quarter were an integral part of the annual reporting period.

Short answer

Snider should report its operating result.

Step-by-step solution

Meaning of IFRS

Companies, accountants, auditors, investors, regulatory and tax authorities in many countries use the IFRS set of consistent accounting standards to prepare books of accounts or annual financial statements. Accounting standards are a set of standards that firms follow when compiling financial statements, which help evaluate a company's performance on an annual basis.

Explaining whether Snider should report its operating results

Snider Corporation will report its quarterly earnings as part of the annual period in compliance with IFRS. This means that the quarterly results of each intermediate period are included in the annual period.