Question 1:
What equity items does your company report on the Statement of Financial Position?
If your company reports Share Capital/Contributed Equity, what are the components of it? Discuss these components and talk about what changes does Share Capital/Contributed Equity has in the past two years. What have caused such changes?
If your company reports Reserves, what reserves are they? How many reserves accounts does your company disclose? What they are? What changes does each of them have in the past two years? What might have caused those changes?
If your company reports Retained Earnings/Retained Profits/Accumulated Loss, what does it mean? What changes does it have in the past two years? What have caused it to change?
Questions 2:
What is your firm's tax expense in its last two years' financial statements? Is this figure each year the same as the company tax rate times your firm's accounting income? Explain why this is, or if not, the case for your firm.
What do you think accrual accounting is? How is the concept of accrual accounting relevant to tax-effect accounting?
Does your company use tax-effect accounting? If so, why does it have to use tax-effect accounting? If not, why not?
Is your company's tax expense in their income statement in each of the last two years the actual tax they paid to the Government in each of those years? Why or why not?