ACC 421 Week 3 During 2007 Pierson Company started a construction job with a contract price of $1,500,000

ACC 421 Week Three (Week 3)

Exercise 18-4 (E18-4) (Recognition of Profit on Long-Term Contracts) During 2007 Pierson Company started a construction job with a contract price of $1,500,000. The job was completed in 2009. The following information is available.

2007 2008 2009
Costs incurred to date $400,000 $935,000 $1,070,000
Estimated costs to complete 600,000 165,000 –0–
Billings to date 300,000 900,000 1,500,000
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 2008.
(c) Compute the amount of gross profit to be recognized each year assuming the completed-contract method is used.

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Kenny Corp., a capital goods manufacturing business that started on January 4, 2007, and operates on a calendar-year basis, uses the installment-sales method of profit recognition in accounting for all its sales

Exercise 18-15 (E18-15) (Installment-Sales Method and Cost Recovery) Kenny Corp., a capital goods manufacturing business that started on January 4, 2007, and operates on a calendar-year basis, uses the installment-sales method of profit recognition in accounting for all its sales. The following data were taken from the 2007 and 2008 records.

2007 2008
Installment sales $480,000 $620,000
Gross profit as a percent of costs 25% 28%
Cash collections on sales of 2007 $140,000 $240,000
Cash collections on sales of 2008 –0– $180,000
The amounts given for cash collections exclude amounts collected for interest charges.
Instructions
(a) Compute the amount of realized gross profit to be recognized on the 2008 income statement, prepared using the installment-sales method.
(b) State where the balance of Deferred Gross Profit would be reported on the financial statements for 2008.
(c) Compute the amount of realized gross profit to be recognized on the income statement, prepared using the cost-recovery method.

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