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Accounting: The Language of Business - Vol. 2 (Intermediate: Part 120)
Revenue Recognition (Part G)
by
Charles Lamson
Step 3: Determine the Transaction Price (continued from Part 119)
Recall from Exhibit 8.1 from Part 114 and reintroduced below, the five steps in revenue recognition. In this post, we continue our discussion of Step 3.
Also recall from part 119 that the transaction price is the amount that an entity will ultimately recognize as revenue. Measuring the transaction price can be quite simple in some cases. For example, assume a customer shopping at a retail store selects and pays $100 cash for a new dress. The transaction price is $100. However, with complex transactions, determining the transaction price is involved. Sellers consider the effects of a number of different factors when determining the transaction price, including:
Variable consideration and constraining estimates of variable consideration
Any significant financing component in the contract
Noncash consideration
Consideration payable to a customer
In contracts when delivery of the goods or services occurs in advance of the payment, the seller is providing financing to the buyer. Alternatively, in contracts when delivery occurs well after payment, the buyer is providing financing to the seller. When the time lapse between payment and delivery is more than one year, entities are required to separate the revenue generated from the contract from the financing component if the financing component is significant at the individual contract level. The rationale is that the seller should recognize revenue at the amount that properly reflects the price that a buyer would pay if payment occurred on the same date as delivery. In determining whether a significant financing component exists, the entity considers three factors:
Once an entity concludes that there is a significant financing component, it determines the transaction price by using the time value of money:
The entity ultimately recognizes the transaction price as sales or service revenue and records the difference between the total contract price and the present or future value as interest revenue if the payment occurs after delivery or interest expense if the payment occurs before delivery. We present an example of a contract with a significant financing component in Example 8.9.
Example 8.10 provides an illustration of a scenario in which the delivery occurs after the payment. *GORDON, RAEDY, SANNELLA, 2019, INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING, 2ND ED., PP. 384-385* end |
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Accounting: The Language of Business - Vol. 2 (Intermediate: Part 119)
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Revenue Recognition (Part F)
by
Charles Lamson
Step 3: Determine the Transaction Price (continued from Part 118) Recall from Exhibit 8.1 from Part 114 and reintroduced below, the five steps in revenue recognition. In this post, we continue our discussion of Step 3. Also recall from part 118 that the transaction price is the amount that an entity will ultimately recognize as revenue. Measuring the transaction price can be quite simple in some cases. For example, assume a customer shopping at a retail store selects and pays $100 cash for a new dress. The transaction price is $100. However, with complex transactions, determining the transaction price is involved. Sellers consider the effects of a number of different factors when determining the transaction price, including:
Variable Consideration and Constraining Estimates of Variable Consideration Variable consideration is when the payment received for providing a good or service is not a fixed amount. The amount of consideration may vary from a fixed amount due to price concessions, performance bonuses or penalties, discounts, refunds, rebates, and incentives. Elements of variable consideration may be stated explicitly or implicitly in the contract. For example, a discount for early payment typically offered by a seller is considered an element of variable consideration, even though it may not be specified explicitly in the contract. If variable consideration is included in the contract, then the entity must estimate the consideration that it expects to receive using one of two acceptable approaches: the expected-value approach (discussed in Part 118) or the most-likely-amount approach (discussed below). The entity should use the approach that provides the best estimate of the amount of consideration it will receive. Most-Likely-Amount-Approach. The most-likely-amount approach uses the single most likely amount in a range of possible consideration amounts as the estimate. This approach is best suited when there are only two possible outcomes. Example 8.7 illustrates estimating variable consideration under the most likely amount approach.
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Accounting: The Language of Business - Vol. 2 (Intermediate: Part 118)
— Zig Ziglar
Revenue Recognition (Part E)
by
Charles Lamson
Step 3: Determine the Transaction Price
Recall from Exhibit 8.1 from Part 114 and reintroduced below, the five steps in revenue recognition. The next few parts in this analysis will discuss Step 3.
The third step in the revenue recognition process is to determine the transaction price. The transaction price is the amount of consideration that the entity expects to be entitled to as a result of providing goods or services to the customer. The transaction price is not necessarily the price stated in the contract—rather, it is the amount the seller expects to receive. The transaction price does not include amounts collected that will be remitted to third parties (such as sales tax). The transaction price is the amount that an entity will ultimately recognize as revenue. Measuring the transaction price can be quite simple in some cases. For example, assume a customer shopping at a retail store selects and pays $100 cash for a new dress. The transaction price is $100. However, with complex transactions, determining the transaction price is involved. Sellers consider the effects of a number of different factors when determining the transaction price, including:
We discuss each of these factors in the following sections. Variable Consideration and Constraining Estimates of Variable Consideration Variable consideration is when the payment received for providing a good or service is not a fixed amount. The amount of consideration may vary from a fixed amount due to price concessions, performance bonuses or penalties, discounts, refunds, rebates, and incentives. Elements of variable consideration may be stated explicitly or implicitly in the contract. For example, a discount for early payment typically offered by a seller is considered an element of variable consideration, even though it may not be specified explicitly in the contract. If variable consideration is included in the contract, then the entity must estimate the consideration that it expects to receive using one of two acceptable approaches: the expected-value approach (discussed below) or the most-likely-amount approach (discussed in Part 119). The entity should use the approach that provides the best estimate of the amount of consideration it will receive. Expected-Value Approach. To compute the expected transaction amount under the expected-value approach, the entity sums the probability-weighted amounts in a range of possible consideration amounts. This method is best suited when the entity has a large number of contracts with similar characteristics. This approach is Illustrated in Example 8.6. *GORDON, RAEDY, SANNELLA, 2019, INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING, 2ND ED., PP. 381-382* end |
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Accounting: The Language of Business - Vol. 2 (Intermediate: Part 117)
— Jodi Levine
Revenue Recognition (Part D)
by
Charles Lamson
Step 2: Identify the Performance Obligations in the Contract
Recall from Exhibit 8.1 in Part 114 and reintroduced below that in order to accomplish the objectives of revenue recognition, companies must follow five steps. This post discusses Step 2.
A seller needs to identify the various performance obligations in a contract to allocate the transaction price to these different performance obligations and to recognize revenue when or as it satisfies each individual one. Conceptually, a performance obligation is a promise to transfer a good or service that is distinct. As shown in Exhibit 8.3, a performance obligation is either:
The determination of performance obligations starts with identifying the promised goods and services. After identifying the goods or services in the contract, the seller must determine which goods and services are distinct. The notion of distinct goods and services is critical to determining separate performance obligations. To be distinct, a good or service must meet two conditions:
It is often clear that a customer can benefit from the product or service on its own (or in conjunction with other assets). At other times, this determination requires more judgment. If the good or service can be used, consumed, or sold for a nontrivial amount, then it passes the test of being distinct. A good or service is also distinct if the customer can benefit from it in conjunction with other readily available resources. Another resource is considered to be a readily available resource if it is sold separately by the seller or another entity, or if the customer already has obtained it from the seller or in some other transaction. For example, consider a set of earbuds packaged with a mobile phone. Because the earbuds can be sold separately and can be used with other electronic devices, the earbuds are a readily available resource. A promise to deliver a good or service is separately identifiable if it is not highly dependent or interrelated to another promise in the contract to deliver another good or service. Judgment may be involved in the determination of whether the promise to deliver the good or service is separate from other promises. For example, consider a lawn care company that mows the lawn and then blows clippings off the sidewalk and driveway. Blowing the clipping is highly dependent on having the lawn mowed. Without mowing the lawn, there would be no clippings to blow away. So, blowing the clippings is not separately identifiable from the promise to mow the lawn. At times a seller may provide a “ free” good or service with the contract, such as in the telecommunications industry where entities offer free mobile phones with a service agreement. These goods and services should be considered as possible performance obligations even though they are identified in the contract as being free of charge. Also, the promised good or service does not have to be explicitly identified in the contract. If the customer has a valid expectation that the seller will provide the good or service, then this item should also be assessed as a possible performance obligation. An entity should aggregate the goods or services promised in a contract until it identifies a bundle of goods or services that is distinct and thus defined as a separate performance obligation. There may be only one performance obligation identifiable in a contract. Example 8.4 illustrates how to identify separate performance obligations. Modification of this contract will result in a different outcome as seen an example 8.5. *GORDON, RAEDY, SANNELLA, 2019, INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING, 2ND ED., PP. 379-381* end |
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