Intermediate Accounting 1 Chapter 1 True False 1. Financial accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, and communicating financial information needed by management to plan, evaluate, and control an organization's operations. 2. Financial statements are the principal means through which financial information is communicated to those outside an enterprise. 3. Users of the financial information provided by a company use that information to make capital allocation decisions. 4. An effective process of capital allocation promotes productivity and provides an efficient market for buying and selling securities and obtaining and granting credit. 6. Accounting standards are now less likely to require the recording or disclosure of fair value information due to its inherent subjectivity. 7. While objectives for financial reporting exist on an informal basis, no formal objectives have been adopted. 9. Some generally accepted accounting principles have simply been accepted as appropriate because of their universal application rather than due to the action of an authoritative accounting rule-making body. 10. Users of financial accounting statements have both coinciding and conflicting needs for information of various types.