1. Introduction Increasingly‚ we are seeing many firms from various industries allowing their customers to pay on credit. This action will inevitably have a direct implication on the financial statements of these firms‚ in terms of accounts receivables‚ allowance for bad debt and uncollectible debt expense. This is especially so when customers are unable to repay their debts. In this paper‚ we will examine the 2008 financial statement of four companies in the retail industry‚ namely
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Accounting Cycle Paper | Accounting Cycle of Walmart | | Melanie Bartholomew | September 2‚ 2012 | When a company‚ like Walmart‚ begins to prepare financial statements and reports at the end of an accounting cycle they generally use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and “the collective process of recording and processing the accounting events” (Definition of ‘Accounting Cycle’‚ 2012)‚ known as the accounting cycle. There are nine steps involved in the accounting cycle. Walmart would
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Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost An understanding of marginal revenue and marginal cost is economically crucial to owning and operating a successful business. Marginal revenue is the amount of change in total revenue by selling one additional product. So if a company sells four extra unit of product and brings extra total revenue of 500 dollars than the marginal revenue for this month would be 125 dollars. This is found by taking the change in total revenue‚ 500 dollars‚ and dividing it by the
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Life Cycle of Blockbuster Not a day goes by where some new technological breakthrough is born‚ offering bigger and better advantages to consumers. Unfortunately‚ this new technology does come with a price tag for companies that don’t have a clear understanding of the current stage of their business’s life cycle. Without understanding the four stage business life cycle plan‚ and where they currently sit‚ they have no way of knowing what lies ahead without being prepared. I have chosen Block
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Unearned revenues are revenues that are received before the company delivers goods or provides services. Some industries that have unearned revenues would include magazine publishers as they only receive checks from customers once the magazine is ordered. Until then the company awaits payment and does not have this in advance. Another company would be airlines because they receive cash once the tickets are sold for future flights. Unearned revenue is used by any company that accepts payments or deposits
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adequate revenue. It is based on this fact that there was the need for the government to levy taxes on the income of the legible citizenry. The Ghana Revenue Authority (Domestic Tax Revenue Division) is charged with that utmost responsibility of levying and collecting taxes on the incomes of individuals such as the Employed and Self-employed‚ (Income Tax)‚ corporate bodies (Corporation Tax)‚ Capital Gains (Capital Gains Tax) and others. Income taxes are different from other sources of revenue in that
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IASB and FASB release revenue recognition exposure draft What is the issue? On June 24th‚ the FASB and IASB issued an exposure draft proposing a new revenue recognition model that could fundamentally alter the way entities across a variety of industries recognise revenue. The proposal is an output of the boards’ joint efforts to develop a converged revenue recognition standard based on the same principles. A key objective is to increase the consistency of revenue recognition for similar contracts
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Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines) The Bureau of Internal Revenue (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Rentas Internas‚ or BIR) is an attached agency of Department of Finance. BIR collects more than one-half of the total revenues of the government. Functions The powers and duties of the Bureau of Internal Revenue are: Assessment and collection of all internal revenue taxes‚ fees and charges; and enforcement of all forfeitures‚ penalties‚ and fines connected therewith‚ including the execution of judgments
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Public Revenue Reporting and Monitoring The main sources of public revenue are: Taxes and levies such as for e.g. income tax‚ property tax‚ sales tax‚ license fees‚ import and export duties‚ levies charged for services etc Earnings from natural resources like oil‚ gas‚ minerals etc Loans from other governments‚ the private sector‚ or international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund‚ World Bank and regional development banks that must eventually be repaid with
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3.6 Revenue recognition with examples when goods are sold under sale or return There are cases when payments are received prior to events that trigger revenue recognition. In that case‚ cash is debited and the unearned revenue is credited. On the other hand‚ when revenue recognition is triggered before actual payment is received‚ accounts receivable is debited while revenue is credited (“Revenue Recognition Principle‚” 2013). Goods are sold under sale or return when they are “sent by the supplier
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