Accounting Methods
Purpose of Assignment
This week’s activity illustrates the role a company’s accounting method plays in financial statement reporting. In this assignment, students evaluate the events occuring in a business setting and determine how to properly analyze those events to identify the impact on both cash and accrual accounting methods.
Resources
Accounting Methods Grading Guide
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Assignment Steps
Scenario: BizCon, a consulting firm, has just completed its first year of operations. The company’s sales growth was explosive. To encourage clients to hire its services, BizCon offered 180-day financing – meaning its largest customers do not pay for nearly 6 months. Because BizCon is a new company, its equipment suppliers insist on being paid cash on delivery. Also, it had to pay up front for 2 years of insurance. At the end of the year, BizCon owed employees for one full month of salaries, but due to a cash shortfall, it promised to pay them the first week of next year.
As the senior accountant, the Chief Financial Officer has asked you to prepare a memo to be sent to management notifying them of the delayed wage payments.
Prepare the memo in a maximum 700 words including the following information to better outline the situation:
Explain how cash and accrual accounting differs for each of the events listed in the above scenario and describe the proper accrual accounting.
Assess how at the end of the year, BizCon reported a favorable net income, yet the company’s management is concerned because the company is very short of cash. Explain to management how BizCon could have positive net income and yet run out of cash.
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Cash and accrual eventually add up to an equal amount. This accounting techniques differ when it comes to recording finances in a given period. Therefore basically after the customers have completed the payments the financial statements during that period where the payments are completed will reveal how profitable the business was.
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