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Chapter 18: Question BE18-21 (page 1034)

Stengel Co. enters into a 3-year contract to perform maintenance service for Laplante Inc. Laplante promises to pay \(100,000 at the beginning of each year (the standalone selling price of the service at contract inception is \)100,000 per year). At the end of the second year, the contract is modified, and the fee for the third year of service, which reflects a reduced menu of maintenance services to be performed at Laplante locations, is reduced to \(80,000 (the standalone selling price of the services at the beginning of the third year is \)80,000 per year). Briefly describe the accounting for this contract modification.

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$80,000 will be recorded in the third year.

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01

Meaning of Contract Modification

A contract modification is a change, adjustment, or alteration to a contract's scope or price (or both) that adds new rights or responsibilities or changes existing ones.

02

Accounting for the contract modification

Stengel Co. has a contract with Laplante Inc. to provide maintenance services. $100,000 each year will be the revenue for the two years in the beginning and in Stengel’s record will be credited to Laplante's account when received in cash. Due to a change in contract revenuein the third year, the disclosure will be restricted to $100,000, with a contract debit.

Costs of modification is $20,000, which must be expensed. Only $80,000 will be paid in cash from Laplante Inc. in the third year and will be deposited into their account.

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(Determine Transaction Price) Jeff Heun, president of Concrete Always, agrees to construct a concrete cart path at Dakota Golf Club. Concrete Always enters into a contract with Dakota to construct the path for \(200,000. In addition, as part of the contract, a performance bonus of \)40,000 will be paid based on the timing of completion. The performance bonus will be paid fully if completed by the agreed-upon date. The performance bonus decreases by $10,000 per week for every week beyond the agreed-upon completion date. Jeff has been involved in a number of contracts that had performance bonuses as part of the agreement in the past. As a result, he is fairly confident that he will receive a good portion of the performance bonus. Jeff estimates, given the constraints of his schedule related to other jobs , that there is 55% probability that he will complete the project on time, a 30% probability that he will be 1 week late, and a 15% probability that he will be 2 weeks late.

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(a) Determine the transaction price that Concrete Always should compute for this agreement.

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Instructions

(b) Prepare the journal entry for the sale of 10 more stations after the contract modification, assuming that the price for the additional stations reflects the standalone selling price at the time of the contract modification. In addition, the additional stations are distinct from the original products as Gaertner regularly sells the products separately.
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