Enhancing qualitative characteristics are the attributes that make financial information useful. Qualitative attributes are the non-numerical characteristics that distinguish more useful information from less useful information. All of the following characteristics are considered to be enhancing qualitative characteristics: comparability (i.e. consistency), verifiability, timeliness, and understandability. 

"The US GAAP uses a principles based approach while the IFRS employs a rules based approach" is the correct answer. This is not an accurate difference between the IFRS and the USGAAP. The US GAAP typically employs a rules based approach while the IFRS follows a principles based approach. The other choices represent accurate differences between the IFRS and US GAAP according to the International Accounting Standards Committee. 

FOB stands for free onboard destination. This means that goods in transit should be considered as the seller's inventory because they have not yet reached the buyer. In other words, if issues were to incur during sipping, then responsibility would fall on the shipper rather than the buyer; therefore, the buyer would record the account payable upon arrival. 

In order for an asset to be considered as cash equivalent, it needs to be readily convertible into cash; furthermore, they must be near maturity so that they carry little to no risk of value alteration due to changes in interest rates. Generally, cash equivalents include investments with maturities of three months or less from the date of purchase. All of these—Treasury bills, commercial paper, and money market funds—are cash equivalents. 

In relation to compensated absences, the knowledge of the conditions that must be met in order to accrue loss contingency is helpful in accounting for compensated absences such as vacation, sick pay, and leave. In order for an employer to accrue liability for employee's compensation for future absences, several conditions must be met. These conditions include the following: the employer's obligation is related to employee's rights to receive compensation for future absences is attributable to the employee's services already rendered; the obligation relates to rights that vest or accumulate; payment of the compensation is probable; and the amount can be reasonably estimated.

In a consignment, the manufacturer—Foxtrot Incorporated—is known as the consignor and the retailer is the consignee—Beta Company. In this type of arrangement, title to the goods remains with the manufacturer until they are sold to a third or unrelated party; thus, the Beta Company's payment of reimbursable freight costs results in an account receivable from Foxtrot Incorporated. 

Contracts form the foundation of many law topics; furthermore, a contract is made up of several essential elements that include the following: offer, acceptance, consideration, legal capacity, and legality. It is important to note that acceptance refers to an agreement or mutual assent between the parties initiating a contract. On the other hand, a statute of frauds is not an essential element. Statutes of frauds are applied on a case-by-case basis depending on the factual situation of each contract. 

The following choice is the correct answer:

This means that an individual may exclude from income up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of gain that is realized on the sale or exchange of a residence, if the individual owned and occupied the residence as a principle residence for an aggregate of at least two of the five years preceding the sale. The amount can be increased to five hundred thousand if married individuals file jointly. This applies if either spouse meets the ownership requirement and both spouses meet the use requirement. 

We need to find the amount of the life insurance payments that need to be included in Angelica's gross income. It is important to note that life insurance payments paid by reason of death are excluded from income if they are paid in lump sums or installments. If the payments are received in installments, then then the principle amount of the policy divided by the number of annual payments is excluded each year. 

Let's start by calculating the principle amount of the policy to be received every year. 

In order to calculate the gross income to be reported, subtract this amount from the annual installment.

This question asks us to identify the maximum amount of tax-free group-term life insurance that can be provided to an employee by an employer. The cost of the first  of employer provided group-term life insurance coverage can be excluded from an employee's income.