SEC has issued SAB 101 guidelines. The effects of applying this guideline would be reported as a cumulative effect adjustment resulting from a change in accounting principle. As a test, Fisher has selected from each of the three divisions a limited number of representative sales transactions to review and the main question is- if all revenue recognition criteria is met other than the issues raised by the customer acceptance provisions, when should revenue be recognized. SAB 101 The guidelines
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Caltron Case University of Phoenix ACC/541 Accounting Theory and Research Week 5 Marina Layvand 21 July 2008 To: Caltron Computers, Inc. From: Peale, Gower and Quill Date: 21 July 2008 Subject: Revenue Recognition Issues There are many different sources for rules and regulations coming from different accounting boards. They are created to ensure every company reports their financial statements properly and that each transaction is in accordance with the generally accepted
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theme Revenue Recognition R evenue is usually the largest single item in financial statements, and the issues involving revenue recognition are among the most important and difficult ones that standardsetters and accountants face. In recent years, concerns related to the recognition of revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards have heightened significantly. Quite often, companies end up tweaking the Revenue numbers, besides some other reasons. Recording revenue improperly is also a
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eliminates the use of the residual method, requires entities to allocate revenue using the relative-selling-price method and significantly expands the disclosure requirements for multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements. 2) GAAP SAB 101:New Revenue Recognition Guidelines,; SAB 104: Revenue Recognition. Under US GAAP, prepaid calling card revenue is deferred and revenue recognition occurs only once
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Chapter 5 REVENUE AND MONETARY ASSETS Changes from Tenth Edition The chapter has been updated. The SEC’s SAB101 Revenue Recognition tests have been added. Approach The sequence of transactions for accounts receivable and bad debts often causes difficulty; indeed, the time that one is sometimes forced to spend on this topic is all out of proportion to its importance. Students often do not understand why an Allowance for Bad Debts account is necessary at all; they do not grasp the notion
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Chapter 5 REVENUE AND MONETARY ASSETS Changes from Tenth Edition The chapter has been updated. The SEC’s SAB101 Revenue Recognition tests have been added. Approach The sequence of transactions for accounts receivable and bad debts often causes difficulty; indeed, the time that one is sometimes forced to spend on this topic is all out of proportion to its importance. Students often do not understand why an Allowance for Bad Debts account is necessary at all; they do not grasp the notion
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I. Succinct The case present a company named Lighthouse that it business specializes as a provider of locating services for the shipping industry. The services comprise of a one-way messaging service that routes messages from the ships at sea to the shipping company’s offices. The messages provide the shipping company detailed information regarding to ship location, speed and current local weather. The way the system works for gathering the ships data is, by installing a device as a dedicated
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United Thermostatic Controls This paper will show the legality of the activities that happened within United Thermostatic Controls based on federal, state, and local laws. As this case is examined the Sarbanes-Oxley act will be discussed as it played a role in this case because United is a publicly owned company. Also this paper will show the ethicality, if the activities were equitable to internal and external stakeholders, and what is the next step based on everything that has happened.
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Acct 325 Legal Plan Services, Inc. The company designs, underwrites, and markets legal services plans, called Memberships. The company sells their plans, in the course of a network of independent contractor sales associates, throughout the United States and in several Canadian provinces. 1. Legal Plan Services offers four types of Intangible product lines: * The Family Plan * Business Owners’ Legal Plan * Law Officers’ Legal Plan * Commercial Driver Legal Plan
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(a) | Discuss the expected effect on income (1) in the year that Wal‐Mart makes the changes in its revenue recognition policy, and (2) in the years following the change. | The SAB deals with various revenue recognition issues, several of which are common within the retail industry. As a result of the issuance of SAB 101, the company changed its method of accounting for SAM’S CLUBS and for Layaway transaction policy both of those are the most representative and the most affected by SAB101. During
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