Handout Cases on Revenue Recognition CASE 1 The Sea-Soft Water Company distributes its water softeners to dealers upon their request. The contract agreement with the dealers is that they may have 90 days to sell and pay for the softeners. Until the 90-day period is over‚ any softeners may be returned at the dealer’s expense and with no further obligations on the dealer’s part. If the water softeners are damaged while in the hands of a dealer‚ Sea-Soft agrees to accept the return of the
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Methods of Revenue Recognition 1. The Accrual Method of Revenue Recognition The most common revenue recognition system is based on the accrual method. Under this approach‚ if the revenue recognition rules presented in the last section have been met‚ then revenue may be recognized in full. In addition‚ expenses related to that revenue‚ even if supplier invoices have not yet been received should be recognized and matched against the revenue. The name of this method does not imply that the revenue
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#1-E) Experience with Revenue Recognition--- Do you have any experience related to revenue recognition? Surely‚ I do #2-Please read the financial statement analysis case (Merck & Johnson & Johnson) on page 613‚ Chapter 12. Please read the instructions for (a)‚ (b)‚ and (c) and address the three questions that are asked. Case Merck & Johnson & Johnson are two leaders producers of health care products. Each has considerable assets‚ and each expends considerable funds each year toward the development
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Executive Summary This memorandum is intended to communicate the deferred tax issues of Lucent Technologies Inc. on the basis of analysis of the veracity of the situation according to the reporting framework’s guidelines to anticipate unfavorable implications that had been resulted due to poor performance of the company over the past years. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is the recognized body for making pronouncements as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs) in the
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Report for Lucent Technologies Background Lucent’s history goes back to the 1875 invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. It’s one of the three companies which were separated from AT&T’s restructure. Lucent was organized into four units‚ the largest of which was Network Systems. It provided networking systems and software to local and long distance telephone companies and cable companies. It was the marker leader for switching systems. The Switch Solutions Group(SSG)‚ which made the
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CHAPTER 18 Revenue Recognition ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) | | |Brief | | | Concepts | |Topics |Questions |Exercises |Exercises |Problems |for Analysis | |*1. Realization and recognition; sales |1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ |1‚ 2‚ 3‚ |1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚
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Revenue Recognition: Apple Inc. THE COMPANY Our analysis of Apple Inc. will incorporate the general overview of the company and how it records it revenues. We will observe how they make an honest effort to be within compliance of all accounting standards according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board for recording and disclosure of its income. Apple’s leading competitor‚ Google Inc.‚ will also be examined to see whether they are comparable to Apple and still within compliance of the Securities
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Revenue Recognition Revenue is the electricity that drives business. Revenue has been the starting point on every income statement generated‚ every sales meeting conducted‚ and is on every entrepreneur’s wish list. The basic concept for revenue recognition is that revenue should not be recognized until it is realized or realizable and earned. There are also four criteria must be met in order to recognize revenue: 1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists: Consider the substance of the transaction
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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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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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