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The accounting and financial reporting of a regular corporation's income taxes is complicated because the accounting principles are likely to be different from the income tax laws and regulations. Generally, a profitable regular corporation's financial statements will report both income tax expense and a current liability such as income taxes payable.

The statement of financial position, often called the balance sheet, is a financial statement that reports the assets, liabilities, and equity of a company on a given date. In other words, it lists the resources, obligations, and ownership details of a company on a specific day. You can think of this like a snapshot of what the company looked like at a certain time in history.

An impairment, in accounting, is a loss of value of an intangible asset like a copyright or patent that should be reflected on future financial statements in the form of an impairment loss.

The current ratio is probably the best known and most often used of the liquidity ratios, which analysts and investors use to evaluate the firm's ability to pay its short-term debt obligations, such as accounts payable (payments to suppliers) and taxes and wages. Short-term notes payable to a bank, for example, may also be relevant.

Materiality therefore relates to the significance of transactions, balances and errors contained in the financial statements. Materiality defines the threshold or cutoff point after which financial information becomes relevant to the decision making needs of the users. Information contained in the financial statements must therefore be complete in all material respects in order for them to present a true and fair view of the affairs of the entity.