The New York Knicks, Inc. sold 10,000 season tickets at $2,000 each. By December 31, 2017, 16 of the 40 home games had been played. What amount should be reported as a current liability at December 31, 2017?

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The business entity will report a current liability of$12,000,000.

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Definition of Unearned Revenue

Acurrent liability representing the obligation to provide service or product for which payment has been received in advance isunearned revenue.

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Calculation of current liability

Calculation of total unearned revenue:

Totalunearnedrevenue=Totaltickets×Priceperticket=10,000×$2,000=$20,000,000

Calculation of revenue earned for 16 games:

Revenueearnedfor16games=TotalunearnedrevenueTotalhomegames×16=$20,000,00040×16=$8,000,000

Calculation of unearned revenue:

Particular

Amount $

Total unearned revenue

$20,000,000

Less: Revenue earned for 16 games

(8,000,000)

Unearned revenue (current liability)

$12,000,000

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E5-9 (L02,3) (Current Assets and Current Liabilities) The current assets and current liabilities sections of the balance sheet of Allessandro Scarlatti Company appear as follows.

ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI COMPANY

BALANCE SHEET PARTIAL

December 31, 2017

Cash

\(40,000

Account payable

\)61,000

Accounts receivables

\(89,000

Note payable

67,000

Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts

(7,000)

82,000

\)128,000

Inventory

171,000

Prepaid expenses

9,000

\(302,000

The following errors in the corporation’s accounting have been discovered:

1. January 2018 cash disbursements entered as of December 2017 included payments of accounts payable in the amount of \)39,000, on which a cash discount of 2% was taken.

2. The inventory included \(27,000 of merchandise that had been received at December 31 but for which no purchase invoices had been received or entered. Of this amount, \)12,000 had been received on consignment; the remainder was purchased f.o.b. destination, terms 2/10, n/30.

3. Sales for the first four days in January 2018 in the amount of \(30,000 were entered in the sales journal as of December 31, 2017. Of these, \)21,500 were sales on account and the remainder were cash sales.

4. Cash, not including cash sales, collected in January 2018 and entered as of December 31, 2017, totaled \(35,324. Of this amount, \)23,324 was received on account after cash discounts of 2% had been deducted; the remainder represented the proceeds of a bank loan.

Instructions

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(b) State the net effect of your adjustments on Allessandro Scarlatti Company’s retained earnings balance.

Martinez Corporation engaged in the following cash transactions during 2017.

Sale of land and building $191,000

Purchase of treasury stock 40,000

Purchase of land 37,000

Payment of cash dividend 95,000

Purchase of equipment 53,000

Issuance of common stock 147,000

Retirement of bonds 100,000

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Case 3: Deere & Company Presented below is the SEC-mandated disclosure of contractual obligations provided by Deere & Company in a recent annual report. Deere & Company reported current assets of \(50,060 and total current liabilities of \)21,394 at year-end. (All dollars are in millions.)

Aggregate Contractual Obligations

The payment schedule for the company’s contractual obligations at year-end in millions of dollars is as follows:

Total

Less than 1 year

1-3 Years

4 and 5 Years

More than 5 Years

Debt

Equipment Operations

\( 5,091

\) 434

\( 270

\)775

\( 3,612

Financial services

31,692

9,962

11,477

6,578

3,675

Total

36,783

10,396

11,747

7,353

7,287

Interest on debt

4,777

609

1,069

745

2,354

Account payable

2,743

2,611

90

39

3

Capital lease

87

39

42

4

2

Purchase obligations

3,007

2,970

37

0

0

Operating leases

371

121

134

70

46

Total

\) 47,768

\( 16,746

\)13,119

8,211

9,692

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(b) Briefly discuss how the information provided in the contractual obligation disclosure would be useful in evaluating Deere & Company for loans (1) due in one year and (2) due in five years.

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