2. What financial statement adjustments will Lucent have to make to correct the revenue recognition problems announced in late 2000? Lucent recognized revenue when persuasive evidence of an agreement exists‚ delivery has occurred‚ the fee is fixed and determinable‚ and collection of the resulting receivable‚ including receivables of customers to which Lucent has provided customers financing‚ is probable. For sales generated from long-term contacts‚ primarily those related to customized network
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-27- Lucent Technologies‚ Inc.—Revenue Recognition Lucent Technologies designs and delivers networks for the world’s largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development‚ Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility‚ optical‚ data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company’s systems‚ services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create
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basis accounting‚ revenues are simply recognized when cashed is received no matter when and how the services were performed or goods delivered. -In accrual basis accounting‚ revenues are recognized when they are realized/ realizable or earned in cases of: +Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists +Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered +The seller’s price to the buyer is fixed or determinable +Collectibles is reasonably assured. -Revenues are not recognized at the time of
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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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business performance and how to better serve clients. The CRM data system developed by RBC could capture millions of daily client transactions; the final goal is to serve the customer at the individual level. This RBC’s vision was confirmed by a study realized in 1997 which revealed that customers wanted banking where they were: Well understood‚ their needs anticipated and their business was valued. In this Environment‚ mass marketing to huge customer segments simply wouldn’t work. In order
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Case answers 1. The merger which was to be enacted in 2001 between the Alcatel‚ a telecommunication company in Paris- France and Lucent telecommunication and technology giants in the United States of America failed due to misunderstanding of the share-ability and resource control should they have collaborated in 2001 (Hartley 2010). The Lucent Company from US realized that Alcatel never intended to equally share and control the company after the merger; instead Alcatel intended to take over control
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Lucent Technologies: Global Supply Chain Management Executive Summary Lucent Technologies is a multinational telecommunication company which was spun off from AT&T in 1996. Before restructure‚ as an integrated telecommunications services and equipment company‚ AT&T had been primarily U.S.-centric market and more than half of income was generated by services in U.S. However‚ the restructure made Lucent focused on communications equipment globally. When Lucent expand into global market
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Harvard Case Study Analysis What is an ANALYSIS? analysis Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural analy·ses \- s z\ Etymology: New Latin‚ from Greek‚ from analyein to dissolve (from ana- + lyein to loosen‚ dissolve) + -sis -1 : separation or breaking up of a whole into its fundamental elements or component parts 2 a : a detailed examination of anything complex (as a novel‚ an organization‚ a race) made in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features : a thorough study
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Harvard Case Review and Analysis 1. Jeff Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee
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Week 2 Individual: Lucent Technologies Case Assignment: Read Case 2.1: Lucent Technologies on pp. 79 and 80 (Ch. 2) of the text. Compose a 500- to 750-word paper that includes your answers to questions 2-4 on p. 79. Question #2: Evalutat the asset‚ debt‚ and equity structure of Lucent Technologies‚ as well as trends and changes found on the common-size balance sheet. After reviewing the case of Lucent Technologies‚ we discover that the assets for Lucent Technologies suffered a decline
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