Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting Practice Question
Question
A practitioner wants to reduce risk before proceeding for the CPA FAR Financial Accounting and Reporting involving governmental funds in Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting. Which option best reduces risk or error? (Item 176)
Answer choices
- A. Use the most complex option even when a simpler compliant action directly solves the problem.
- B. Apply a rule from a different domain even though the exam objective is different.
- C. Choose the option that sounds familiar even if it does not fit the scenario.
- D. The best answer is to choose the accounting treatment that best matches recognition, measurement, presentation, and reporting principles for the governmental funds scenario.
Correct Answer
D. The best answer is to choose the accounting treatment that best matches recognition, measurement, presentation, and reporting principles for the governmental funds scenario.
Explanation
The correct answer is D because governmental funds is tested by asking candidates to choose the accounting treatment that best matches recognition, measurement, presentation, and reporting principles. The distractors reflect common exam mistakes: ignoring context, using informal shortcuts, skipping verification, or applying a rule from the wrong domain.
Question details
- Difficulty: hard
- Domain: Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting
- Objective: governmental funds