Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club Bill Ahern had to resolve the profitability issues between the owners of the major baseball leagues and the players. The main differences were the following: - Roster depreciation: Per IRS code, 50% of the purchase price ($6M) was designated as the value of the player roaster at that time, and the owners decided to spread it over six years (they did it because they could). Players argue that no depreciation should take place because, they believe that with
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Financial Accounting July 2012 Session 3 Kansas City Zephyrs and Inventories Jacob Cohen MIT Sloan School of Management 1 Kansas City Zephyrs – Setting I Kansas City Zephyrs – Setting II What are the owners’ incentives? What are the players’ incentives? Kansas City Zephyrs – Discussion Take-Away slide I Kansas City Zephyrs • A case where financial statements are used to resolve an internal dispute • Distinct from Shrek 2, which focused on the effect of accounting
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Katelynn Tax 1/18/16 Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc. 2006 There are five main points of difference between the accounting methods of players and owners. The five main differences appear in roster depreciation, current roster salary, amortization of signing bonuses, non-roster guaranteed contract expense, and stadium operations. The following paragraphs analysis the main points above. Owners take 50% of purchase price of $228 million and depreciate it for 6 years this amounts to $19,000
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In the case study of the Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc. Bill Ahern the arbitrator was assigned to resolve the issue on the parties’ agreeing on the true profitability of the major league baseball teams. Both Zephyr’s owners and players disagree on three different areas: a) Roster depreciation, b) Overstated Player Salary Expense which entails current signing bonuses, roster salary, amortization of and non-roster guaranteed contract expense; and c) Related-Party Transactions (Stadium Operations)
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KANSAS CITY ZEPHYRS BASEBALL CLUB This case has three fundamental issues 1. Roster depreciation; 2. Player compensation; 3. Transfer pricing of related party operations (stadium costs); 1. Roster Depreciation (I side with the Owners) The owners recognize depreciation as of a value placed on the player roster at the time the baseball club was purchased. They do this for two reasons. 1. It lowers the value of the team and second for tax purposes. This is very legal and is normally used
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Refer to the Kansas City Zephyrs reading from earlier in the week. For each of the 5 areas in dispute, answer the following: Who is right? Why? 1. Roster Depreciation The players are right. All players believe that depreciation is not required because the players improve their skills through their years of experience. Also, they believe the roster appreciates through the years. The appreciation and depreciation of the player rosters are based on the player’s talent, scouting, and coaching
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Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc. This case helps demonstrate how different accounting techniques can come to different results. In this case I believe the owners of the team were not being completely honest in the way they were allocating expenses and therefore indicating losses instead of profits. There are three areas that the players association did not agree with the expenses allocated by the owners of the team. These areas are the Roster depreciation, the player’s compensation and
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Case 1-1 Ribbons and Bows Questions: 1a. How would you report on the three-month operations of Ribbons an’ Bows, Inc., through June 30? Ribbons an’ Bows remains in the black at the end of the three month period given to us in the case. However, several items need to be considered to have a good understanding of the state of the company from a profitability standpoint: all monies going out (debited), and all monies already in (credited). 1b. Was the company profitable? On paper
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Applying Accounting Principal to the Kansas City Zephrys Baseball Club Case Measurement Positions Roaster Depreciation Measurement Issues Player Compensation Stadium Expense 1. Owners’ Accounting The accounting follows the industry standard of accounting principles within the baseball field in essence the owners get to write off the declining market value of the player contracts as a loss while also counting the annual salaries paid the players as an expense. The financial statement account
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KANSAS CITY ZEPHYRS BASEBALL CLUB INC. In this case we have a typical issue related with different accounting approaches analyzing expenses generated and paid in different periods. We have the position of the Owner-Player Committee (OPC) representing the owners who obviously want to present low profitability in their financial statements to get a better treatment for taxes and in the other side we have the position of the Professional Baseball Players Association (PBPA), the organization representing
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