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FASB and IASB indicated that reporting for revenue

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Was unsatisfactory

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IASB and FASB issued a diverged standard on revenue recognition called

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Revenue from contracts with customers

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Boards believe new standard will improve GAAP and IFRS BY

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Providing a more robust framework for addressing revenue recognition issues

Improving comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdiction, and capital markets

Simplifying prepapartion of financial statements by reducing # of requirements to which companies must refer

Required enhanced disclosures to help financial statement users better understand amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue that is recognized

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Asset liability approach is the basis for

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Revenue recognition

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Asset liability approach recognized and measures revenue based

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On changes in assets and liabilities

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Board decided that focusing on

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Recognition and measurement of assets and liabilities

And changes in assets or liabilities over life of contract brings more discipline to measurement of revenue COMPARED TO EARNED AND REALIZED STANDARDS

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The process of key concept of revenue recognition is the REVENUE RECOGNITION PRINCIPLE which

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States that revenue is recognized when performance obligation is satisfied

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Contract

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Is an agreement between two or more parties that creates enforceable rights or obligations

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Contract Can be?

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Written, oral or implied from customary business practice

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When is revenue recognized only?

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When a valid contract exists

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On entering contract with customer, a company obtains rights to

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Receive consideration from customer and assumes obligations to transfer goods and services to customer (performance obligation)

The combination of those rights and performance obligation give rise to an net asset or net liability

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The contract must meet 5 conditions:

Company applies revenue guidance to contract according to following criteria

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  1. Contract must have commercial substance
  2. Parties approve contract
  3. Identification of rights of parties established
  4. Payment terms are identified
  5. It is probable that consideration will be collected
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A key feature of revenue arrangement is that the contract between two parties is not recorded until when?

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Until one or both of parties perform under contract

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Until performance occurs

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No net asset or net liability occurs

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Performance obligation

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Is the promises to provide a product or service to the customer

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To determine whether a performance obligation exists, the company must provide what?

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A distinct product or service to the customer

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When is a product or service distinct?

&I when does this typically occur?

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When the customer is able to benefit from good or service on its own or together with other readily available resources

This typically occurs when a company can sell a good or service on a standalone basis (sold separately)

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To determine whether a company has to account for multiple performance obligations is

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The company promise to sell good or service to customer must be separately identifiable from other promises within contract

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What is the objective of separating performance obligations

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Is to determine whether the nature of company’s promise is to transfer individual goods and services to customer or to transfer a combined item or items for which individual goods or services are inputs

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When the service is distinct and not interdependent

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Can be sold separately as two performance obligations

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When a service is distinct but interdependent then it should be accounted for

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As one performance obligations

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Transaction price is

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Amount of consideration a company expects to receive from a customer in exchange for transferring goods and services

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Why is the transaction price contract often easily determined?

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Because the customer agreed to pay a fixed amount to company over short period of time

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In other contracts companies must consider the following factors

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Variable consideration

TVM

No cash consideration

Consideration paid or payable to customer

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In variable consideration, the price of good or service is dependent on what?
Future events
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The future events may include?
Price increases, volume discounts, rebates, performance bonuses or royalties
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Company estimates the amount of consideration it will receive from contract because?
It will determine the amount of revenue to recognize
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What do companies use to estimate variable consideration? Pg. 988
Expected value - probability weighted amount in range of possible consideration amounts OR Most likely amount: the single most likely amount in a range of possible consideration outcomes
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A company only allocates variable consideration of it is
Reasonably assured that it will be entered to that amount
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Companies therefore may only recognize variable consideration if
1. They have experience with similar contracts and are able to estimate cumulative amount of revenue 2. Based on experience highly probable there will not be significant reversal of revenue previously recognized
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What happens when the two criteria of recognizing variable consideration is not met?
Revenue recognition is constrained
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Companies account for time value of money if involved
Significant financing component
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When sales transaction involves significant financing component ( interest is accrued on consideration to be paid over time) the fair value is determined by?
Measuring consideration received or by discounting the payment using an imputed interest rate
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Imputed interest rate is can be more determined when
Prevailing rate for similar instrustment of issuer with similar credit rating Rate of interest that discounts minimal amount of instrument to current sale price of good or services
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Companies do not have to reflect time value of money to determine transaction price if the time period payment is less than
Year
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Companies sometimes receive what? In the form of goods services or other non cash consideration
Considerations
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Companies generally recognize revenue on basis of what?
FV of what is recieved
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A contribution is often a type of?
Asset (Securities, land buildings or use of facilities) But if could be the forgiveness of debt
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Customers sometimes contribute goods and services such as
Equipment or labor as consideration for goods provided or services performed
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The previous consideration should be recognized as
Revenue based on fair value of consideration recieved
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Consideration paid or payable to customers include
Discounts , rebates , coupons, free products or services
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Discount volume rebates coupons free products or services reduce what?
Consideration recieved and revenue recognized
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In many cases companies provide cash discounts to customers for
A short period of time
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In most cases companies record the revenue at And sales discount if
Full price If payment is made within discount period
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Companies often have to allocate transaction price to
More than one performance obligation in contract
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If the allocation is needed, transaction price allocated to performance obligations is based on
Relative fair values
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The best measure of fair value is when a company
Could sell the good service for a standalone basis referred as standalone selling price
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If info not available impatiens should use
Best estimate of what good or service might sell for a sandalone unit
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A company satisfies its performance obligation when
A customer obtains control of good or service
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The concept control is a deciding factor in determining?
When a performance obligation is satisfied
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The customer controls product or service when
It has the ability to direct use of and obtain substantially all the remaining benefits from asset or service
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Control also includes customers ability to
Prevent other companies from directing the use of or receiving benefits from asset or service
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What are the change in control indicatiors?
1. Company has the right to payment for asset 2. The company has transferred legal title to asset 3. Company has transferred physical possession of asset 4. Customer has significant risks and rewards of ownership 5. Customer has accepted asset
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The change in control indicators are list of indicators not
Requirement or criteria
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All of the indicators need to be met for management to conclude control has been transferred
FALSE!!! All indicators do not need to be met
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Companies recognize revenue if one of the following 3 criteria are met
Customer recieved and consumes benefits The customer control asset as it created Company does not have alternative use for asset created or enhanced
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A company recognized revenue from performance obligation over time by measuring
Progress toward completion
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Method for measuring progress should depict what?
The transfer of control from company to customer
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For many service arrangements revenue is recognized on
Straight line basis BBC performance obligation is being satisfied over contract period
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What methods do companies use to determine extent of progress toward completion?
Cost to cost and units of delivery methods
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What r the objectives of methods
To measure extent of progress in terms of costs units or value added
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Input measures
Cost incurred and labor hours worked
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Output measures
Units of delivery measured as tons produced, floors of building completed
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The most popular input measure used to determine progress toward completeioj is
Cost to cost basis
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What are the accounting for revenue recognition issues?
``` Sales and returns and allowances Repurchase agreements Bill and hold Principal agent relationships Consignments Warranties No refundable upfront fees ```
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Sales returns and allowances
Customers granted right to return product for various reasons (dissatisfaction of product)
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Customers granted right to return product and receive any combination of the following
1. Full or partial refund of any consideration paid 2. Credit can be applied against amounts Owed or that will be owed 3. Another product in exchange
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Repurchase agreements
Allows them to transfer an asset to a customer but have unconditional (forward) obligation or unconditional right (call option) to repurchase asset at a later date
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If the company has forward obligation or call option to repurchase asset for an amount greater than or equal to selling price, the transaction is what type of transaction by company?
Financing
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Bill and hold arrangements
Contract under which an entity bills a customer for a product but the entity still retains physical possession of product until it is transferred to customer at a point in time in future
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Bill and hold sales results when the buyer is
Not ready to take delivery but does take title and accepts billing
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Principal agent relationships
Principals performance obligation is to provide goods or perform services for a customer
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Examples include
Travel company facilitates booking of cruise excursions by finding customers Priceline agent facilitates the sale of various services such as car rentals
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Amounts that are collected on behalf of principle are not
Revenue of agent
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Revenue of agent is the amount
Of commission it receives
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Consignments
Manufacturers or wholesales deliver goods but retain title to goods until sold
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Specialized method of marketing certain types of products makes use of agreement known as
Consignment
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Consignor is
Manufacturer or wholesaler
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Consignee is the
Dealer who is to act as an agent for consignor in selling merchandise
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Consignor recognizes revenue only
After receiving notification of sale
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Consignor makes a profit on
Sale Carries merch as inventory
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Consignor makes commission on
Sale
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Consignee does not record merchandise as an
Asset, upon sale of merch , consignee has liability for net amount due to consignor
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Consignor periodically receives from consignee a report called
Account sales that shows merchandise received, sold and expenses chargeable to consignment and cash remitted
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Consignees only recognize
Commission revenue
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What are the two types of warranties?
1. Warranties that product meets agreed upon specifications in contract at time product is sold •assurance type warranty (included in sales price) 2. Warranties that provide additional service beyond assurance type warranty •service type warranty (not included in sales price) • recorded as separate performance obligation
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Companies sometimes receive payments (upfront fees) from customers before
They deliver product or perform good or service
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Upfront fees generally relate to what?
Initiation, activation or set up of good or service to be provided or performed in the future
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In most cases upfront payments are not Examples include
Refundable Examples include membership in health club or buying club, activation fees for phone
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In most situations these payments are for future delivery of products and services and therefore should not be
Recorded as revenue at the time of payment
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Companies use what to recognize revenue
Asset liability approach
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Contract assets are two types
1. Unconditional rights to receive consideration bc the company has satisfied its performance obligation with customer 2. Conditional rights to receive consideration because company satisfied one performance obligation but must satisfy another performance obligation in contract before it can bill customer
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Companies should report unconditional rights to receive
Consideration as a receivable on the balance sheet
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Conditional rights on balance sheet should be reported separately as
Contract assets
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Contact liability
Company obligation to transfer goods or services to customer for which company has recieved consideration from customer
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Contract liability is referred as
Unearned sales revenue , unearned service revenue etc
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Contract modification
Companies sometimes change contract terms while it is onfoing
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When a contract modification occurs companies determine
Whether a new contract results or whether it's a modification of existing contract
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Separate performance obligation A company accounts for contract modification as a new contract if both of the following conditions are satisfied
Promised goods or services are distinct (sold separately and not interdependent) Company has right to receive amount of consideration that reflects standalone selling price of goods or services
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Prospective modification Company should
Account for effect of change in period of change as well as future periods of change affects both Not change previously reported results
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Costs to fulfill contact Companies divide fulfillment costs in two categories
1. Those that give rise to an asset | 2. Those that are expense as incurred
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Companies only capitalize costs that are
Direct incremental and recoverable
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Collectibility
Refers to customers credit risk, risk that a customer will be unable to pay the amount of consideration in accordance with contract
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Under revenue guidance- as long as contract exists the amount recognized as revenue is not
Adjusted for customer credit risk
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Whether a company gets paid for satisfying performance obligation is not
Consideration in determine revenue recognition.
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Disclosure requirements for revenue recognition are designed to help financial statement users understand
Nature, amount timing and uncertainties of revenue
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Companies disclose qualitative and quantitiative info about the following
Contract with customers Disaggregatjon of revenue Presentation of open and close balances in contract assets and liabilities Significant judgments Determine transaction price,allocation of transaction price and determine time of revenue Assets recognize from costs incurred to fulfill contract Close balance of asset recognized to obtain or fulfill contract , amount of amortization recognition

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