Chapter 4 The Revenue Cycle Objectives for Chapter 4 • Tasks performed in the revenue cycle‚ regardless of the technology used • The functional departments involved in revenue cycle activities and the flow of revenue transactions through the organization • The documents‚ journals‚ and accounts that provide audit trails‚ promote the maintenance of records‚ support decision making‚ and sustain financial reporting • Risks associated with the revenue cycle and the controls that reduce these risks
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expensed when purchased. (f) Agricultural companies use market value for purposes of valuing crops. (g) Each enterprise is kept as a unit distinct from its owner or owners. (h) All significant postbalance sheet events are reported. (i) Revenue is recorded at point of sale. (j) All important aspects of bond indentures are presented in financial statements. (k) Rationale for accrual accounting. (l) The use of consolidated statements is justified. (m) Reporting must be done at defined time intervals
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What Is Revenue Management? The science and expertise of forecasting immediate consumer demand at the micro-market stage when optimizing cost and accessibility of your goods is called as revenue Management. The implementation of RM philosophy is indefinite‚ and has the prospective to yield remarkable stages of revenue. Enterprises that have used RM procedures have seen profits rising greatly by 7 percent exclusive of incorporating considerable sum of capital overheads‚ providing outcome in a revenue
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Costs and Revenues What is cost? If you go to a store and like an item and you want to buy it‚ which of the following questions would you ask: What’s the price of …..? 0R How much does …. cost? Examples of costs – set-up Examples of costs - running Fixed Costs 5000 What happened to the fixed costs if for some reason the company had technical problems and was unable to produce for 2 weeks? What happens if the landlord decided to raise the rent due to high property prices
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A: The primary criteria the auditor should use in determining revenue to be recognized are: (1): persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists. (2): Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered. (3): The seller’s price to the buyer is fixed or determinable. (4): Collectability is reasonably assured. The most basic principle for revenue recognition is revenue has been realized or realizable and earned. B: (1) a: Multiple deliverable. Does the software and one year internet service has
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PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND (PED) & REVENUE Price elasticity of demand (PED) is particularly important to businesses‚ because of its effect on their revenue (income). Consider the following examples: 1) Mrs Robinson wants to increase her business’s revenue‚ but can’t decide whether she should increase or lower her prices. She currently charges £1 per unit and sells 1‚000 units. She knows that the PED for her product is (-) 0.4. What will happen to sales‚ sales revenue and profit if she: a) raises the
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The issue of revenue recognition practices is an area that has received a lot of attention from regulators. Whenever there is a report of financial restatements or negative earnings‚ regulators pay extra attention to review the financial statements in order to verify that that there are not any indications of financial fraud or that the organization overstepped their boundaries in the area of managed earnings. The reason that regulators have taken a special interest in financial accounting and potential
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TEST OF CONTROLS – REVENUE TRANSACTIONS |Audit Objective |Audit procedure |Findings | |General | | | |Validity |Observe
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The Accounting Cycle Five Cycles of Accounting The accounting cycle consists of five components: revenue‚ expenditures‚ financing‚ conversion‚ and fixed assets (Bagranoff‚ Simkin‚ & Strand‚ 2008). There are many business activities within a company that will take place in each of these cycles. The revenue cycle incorporates sales and cash receipts. Expenditures are the decrease in cash assets to acquire goods or services necessary to operate. The conversion cycle is a continual process that
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1. What are the revenue streams for TechMall? The revenues streams for TechMall include the following: a. Setup Fee Revenue b. Statement Fee Revenue c. Transaction Fee Revenue 2. What drives each of the revenue streams? a. Merchant setups drives the Setup Fee Revenue (Setup Fee Revenue=Merchant setups*$750); b. System merchants drives the Statement Fee Revenue (Statement Fee Revenue=System Merchants*$50); c. Total transactions‚ and Transaction Dollars drives the Transaction Fee
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