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Chapter 18: Q.18-8CA_1 (page 1048)

Question: CA18-8 ETHICS (Revenue Recognition—Membership Fees) Midwest Health Club (MHC) offers 1-year memberships. Membership fees are due in full at the beginning of the individual membership period. As an incentive to new customers, MHC advertised that any customers not satisfied for any reason could receive a refund of the remaining portion of unused membership fees. As a result of this policy, Richard Nies, corporate controller, recognized revenue ratably over the life of the membership. MHC is in the process of preparing its year-end financial statements. Rachel Avery, MHC’s treasurer, is concerned about the company’s lacklustre performance this year. She reviews the financial statements Nies prepared and tells Nies to recognize membership revenue when the fees are received.

Instructions

Answer the following questions.

(a) What are the ethical issues involved?

Short Answer

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Answer

There will beethical issues between the fair reporting of financial information and higher corporate profits.

Step by step solution

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Definition of Corporate Profit

The money that remains in the hand of the corporation after paying all of its expenses is known as corporate profit.

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 Step 2: Ethical issued involved

In the above case, the business entity must recognize revenue over the period rather than the point of time because the membership fee might be refunded if the customer is not satisfied. But to report higher gross, the business entity is recognizing revenue at a point in time that will misrepresent the financial statement and consequently mislead the users of the financial statement. This would create an ethical issue.

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Tablet Tailors sells tablet PCs combined with Internet service, which permits the tablet to connect to the Internet anywhere and set up a Wi-Fi hot spot. It offers two bundles with the following terms.

1. Tablet Bundle A sells a tablet with 3 years of Internet service. The price for the tablet and a 3-year Internet connection service contract is \(500. The standalone selling price of the tablet is \)250 (the cost to Tablet Tailors is \(175). Tablet Tailors sells the Internet access service independently for an upfront payment of \)300. On January 2, 2017, Tablet Tailors signed 100 contracts, receiving a total of \(50,000 in cash.

2. Tablet Bundle B includes the tablet and Internet service plus a service plan for the tablet PC (for any repairs or upgrades to the tablet or the Internet connections) during the 3-year contract period. That product bundle sells for \)600. Tablet Tailors provides the 3-year tablet service plan as a separate product with a standalone selling price of \(150. Tablet Tailors signed 200 contracts for Tablet Bundle B on July 1, 2017, receiving a total of \)120,000 in cash.

Instructions

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(Recognition of Profit on Long-Term Contracts) During 2017, Nilsen Company started a construction job with a contract price of \(1,600,000. The job was completed in 2019. The following information is available.

2017 2018 2019

Costs incurred to date \)400,000 \(825,000 \)1,070,000

Estimated costs to complete 600,000 275,000 –0–

Billings to date 300,000 900,000 1,600,000

Collections to date 270,000 810,000 1,425,000

Instructions

(a) Compute the amount of gross profit to be recognized each year, assuming the percentage-of-completion method is used.

(b) Prepare all necessary journal entries for 2018.

(c) Compute the amount of gross profit to be recognized each year, assuming the completed-contract method is used.

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Instructions

(a) Prepare Zagat’s journal entry necessary on March 1, 2017.

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Instructions

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