Financial Reporting and Analysis – ACG6175 Date: 5/18/09 Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1 – In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679 million as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firms market capitalization plummeted by $24.7 billion. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? There is usually a grey zone between aggressive accounting‚ which
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Revenue Recognition: Case Study on Caltron Computers‚ Inc. Julie Mong April 17 ‚ 2010 1. In general‚ evaluate Caltron’s revenue recognition policy and the quality of Caltron’s earnings. Caltron Computers‚ Inc.‚ a computer hardware company‚ is publicly held with market capitalization amounting to over $450 million. Carlton’s system designs enable their mini-computer systems to measure up to the power of mainframes with small cost outlays. The accounting practices
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Issues With Revenue Recognition within the Software Industry The Isoft Example Financial Controller-SoftWarehouse Ltd This report has been prepared for the Board of Directors of SoftWarehouse Ltd for elucidation about the contentious issues that have given rise to the publication of the article concerning Isoft’s issues with revenue recognition. Finally‚ it will also assess whether or not these issues are likely to affect SoftWarehouse Ltd. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary: 3
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Revenue-Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1) In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679m as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firm’s market capitalization plummeted by $24.7bn. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? The large drop in market capitalization is probably due to several factors. Historically‚ Lucent had successfully met analysts’ projections for
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ACCT 30101 Carlos Briones Revenue Recognition Case Amanda Eng Alipasha Ziaee 1. Revenue Recognition for MultipleElement Arrangements The Case of Velocity Cellular a) According the ASC 60525255 there are two criteria that must be met in order to be considered a separate deliverable and a separate unit of accounting:
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How SAB affects Wareham’s revenue recognition? Accordingly to SAB 101‚ all of the following conditions should be accomplished to recognize revenue. During our analyses‚ we have identified several missing conditions in current situation‚ accordingly to information provided. * Evidence of Order Arrangement: SAB 101 requires an evidence to identify any transaction as a formal sales order. During our analyses we have found that in the sales transactions tested by Soma Desai‚ only the Technology
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Revenue Recognition and Wareham SC Systems‚ Inc. Wareham SC Systems‚ Inc. is a capital equipment and testing instrument manufacturer and supplier comprised of three divisions: the Glendale Division‚ the Advanced Technology Division and the Technical Devices Division (Anthony‚ Hawkins‚ & Merchant‚ 2011‚ p. 137). In 1999‚ Somai Desai‚ the company’s chief financial officer‚ received news that the Security Exchange Commision (SEC) issued a new set of revenue recognition and reporting
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company’s revenue. This paper explains the fraud occurred in recognizing the revenue and how it overstated the financial statements and increased the stock price. It also explains the fraud theory applied to the revenue recognition and the auditor’s failure in discovering the fraud and reports it to the SEC. This paper will provide methods that auditors should follow in auditing public companies and the best practices they should follow if the company changed the revenue recognition. Background
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Q3: Should Apple lobby the FASB to change the revenue recognition rules for smartphones? In our opinion‚ Apple should lobby FASB to change the revenue recognition rules for smartphones‚ given the following reasons:- 1. Under “non-GAAP measures”‚ Apple’s performance looked much better than that under GAAP measures. Please find below a table1 summarizing the differences of key financial data between GAAP and non-GAAP measures for the fourth quarter of 2008:- Q4 2008 GAAP ($ billions) Non-GAAP
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(1) summarizes the factual situation The company was started off by Amelia. The company is a family software company that Aunt Amelia started. She started working in a spare room in her house and was able to bring other relatives together to invest together and form a company. The company was a success that is became part of Wall Street just three years ago. The company has being profitable and there haven’t being any issues associated with the accounting records or any financial data associated
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