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The key elements of financial statements are defined as follows: - Assets are present economic resources controlled by the entity due to past events that have the potential to produce future economic benefits. Rights that are assets include contractual rights to receive cash or goods/services and rights over physical objects. - Liabilities are present obligations of the entity to transfer economic resources due to past events. - Equity is the residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all its liabilities. - Income increases equity through increases in assets or decreases in liabilities, other than contributions from equity holders. Expenses decrease equity through decreases in assets or increases in liabilities, other than distributions to equity holders.

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Asset

The key elements of financial statements are defined as follows: - Assets are present economic resources controlled by the entity due to past events that have the potential to produce future economic benefits. Rights that are assets include contractual rights to receive cash or goods/services and rights over physical objects. - Liabilities are present obligations of the entity to transfer economic resources due to past events. - Equity is the residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all its liabilities. - Income increases equity through increases in assets or decreases in liabilities, other than contributions from equity holders. Expenses decrease equity through decreases in assets or increases in liabilities, other than distributions to equity holders.

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The Accounting Equation and

the Double Entry System| 69

statements are defined as follows:


In summary, the eleménts of financial

Element Definition or Description


A present economic resource controlled by the entity as a result of past
Asset
An economic resource is a right that has the potential to produce
events.
economic benefits. result of
transfer an economic resource as a
Liability A present obligation of the entity to
past events.
the entity after deducting all its liabilities.
Equity The residual interest in the assets of
Increases in assets, or decreases in liabilities, that result in increases in equity,
Income
holders of equity claims.
other than those relating to contributions from
Decreases in assets, or increases in liabilities, that result in decreases in equity,
Expenses
other than those relating to distributions to holders of equity claims.

Financial Position
Asset

Per March 2018 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (Conceptual


Framework), asset is a present economic resource controlled by the entity as a result of
past events. An economic resource is a right that has the potential to produce economic
benefits. There are three aspects to these definitions: "right"; "potential to produce
economic benefits"; and "control".

Rights that have the potential to produce economic benefits take many forms,
including:
(a) rights that correspond to an obligation of another party, for example:

(i) rights to receive cash.


(ii) rights to receive goods or services.
(ii) rights to exchange economic resources with another party on favorable terms.
Such rights include, for example, a forward contract to buy an economic
resource on terms that are currently favorable or an option to buy an economic
resource.
(iv) rights to benefit from an obligation of another party to transfer an economic
resource if a specified uncertain future event occurs.

(b) rights that do not correspond to an obligation of another party, for example:
(i) rights over physical objects, such as property, plant and equipment or
inventories. Examples of such rights are a right to use a physical object or a
right to benefit from the residual value of a leased object.
(ii) rights to use intellectual property.

An economic resource could


produce econamic benefits for an entity by entitling or
enabling it to do, for example, one or of more the following:
(a) receive contractual cash flows
or another economic
resource;
(b) exchange economic resources with another
party on favorable terms;

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