Issues With Revenue Recognition within the Software Industry The Isoft Example Financial Controller-SoftWarehouse Ltd This report has been prepared for the Board of Directors of SoftWarehouse Ltd for elucidation about the contentious issues that have given rise to the publication of the article concerning Isoft’s issues with revenue recognition. Finally‚ it will also assess whether or not these issues are likely to affect SoftWarehouse Ltd. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary: 3
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Revenue recognition on FASB and IASB convergence process I. CONVERGENCE OF U.S. GAAP AND IFRS Since 2002‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) have been working toward “convergence” of US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). They have made significant progress in efforts to converge critical accounting standards such as those dealing with revenue recognition‚
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Assessing Revenue Recognition Timing Explain when each of the following business should recognize revenues: a. A clothing retailer like The Limited. Revenue recognition: Sales basis method (at the time of sale). The revenue for a retail store like The Limited should recognize their revenue when the
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5/18/09 Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1 – In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679 million as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firms market capitalization plummeted by $24.7 billion. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? There is usually a grey zone between aggressive accounting‚ which is the use of legitimate accounting methods to achieve
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Historical cost accounting Advantages • Historical cost accounts are straightforward to produce • Historical cost accounts do not record gains until they are realized • Historical cost accounts are still used in most accounting systems Disadvantages • Historical cost accounts give no indication of current values of the assets of a business • Historical cost accounts do not record the opportunity costs of the use of older assets‚ particularly property which may be recorded at a value based on costs
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Chapter 1 Accounting Information Systems and the Accountant INTRODUCTION WHAT ARE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS? Accounting Information Systems—A Definition Accounting Information Systems and Their Role in Organizations CASE ANALYSES The Annual Report Universal Concrete Products Ross‚ Sells‚ and Young‚ LLP REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED READINGS ANSWERS TO TEST YOURSELF WHAT’S NEW IN ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS? Suspicious Activity Reporting Countering Terrorism Corporate Scandals and Accounting The
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of your online course: This week you learned about the unearned revenue account. Provide three examples of unearned revenue. Answer: Three examples of unearned revenue would be 1.Prepaid Expense - A year long insurance contract a company paid $12‚000 for at the beginning of the year. Since the insurance company owes the company service‚ the expense prepayment is recorded as an asset Journal Entries: debit Prepaid Insurance and credit Cash). 2. Unearned Revenue - A year long subscription of $12
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1) Why have you chosen to pursue a social work education and career? (Max 300 words) I always knew I wanted to work with people; when I was younger I thought I might be a psychologist‚ but the more I studied it‚ the more I realized I didn’t want to diagnose people as one thing. I think working with people is so much more individual based than people realised; the way one person deals with depression could be so much different than a way another person does. Co-morbidity with mental illness is so
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Question 1: Sassu is online based accounting software which enables users to remotely access their business transactions from anyplace they want. All one is in need to be wired to the internet and login to their sassu account and start inputting or manipulating their business transactions (“What is Cloud Accounting‚” n.d.‚ parra. 1). Sassu is a market leader in the Asia Pacific software as a Service Accounting industry‚ thriving with millions of transaction worth billions of dollars with a reach
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Case 1 Answer 1: Company A is small and has a low profile because of low volume of sales and no advertisement expenses. This shows Proprietary Business. Company B is a large and have a high profile because sales value is high and it incurs heavy cost of advertisement expenses. Answer 2: This is possible because the sales of Company B are 3.4 times higher than the sales of Company A‚ so even the large expenditure doesn’t affect the Net Income. Answer 3: A: = $211686/$415072*100 = 50.99% or Say
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