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To: Joe Insalacco From: Accounting Advisor RE: Accounting issues on the financial statements of Daphne’s Catering Ltd. As an accounting advisor, it is my role to examine the financial statements of Daphne’s Catering Ltd. to provide recommendations on accounting issues and give explanations regarding the purchase of DCL. Users/Objective You, Joe Insalacco, are a potential buyer of Daphne’s Catering Ltd. With the financial statements, you are looking to evaluate the performance to determine whether this is a company worth purchasing. You are not familiar with the accounting matters of DCL but your objective is to minimize net income so that you can purchase DCL for a lower price. Daphne Flatt is the owner and CEO of Daphne’s …show more content…

This method will cause revenue to be recognized in the fiscal period ended on September 30, 2015. Alternative #2: Recognize revenue on October 2, when event takes place. Recognizing revenue on October 2, on the day of the event, is reasonable because now, performance has occurred and all of the risk and rewards have been transferred to the corporation holding the event. Revenue is measurable because the price was already set ($60,000) at the time when the contract was signed. Cost is measurable because the event has already occurred and the case states that DCL has incurred cost of $44,000 on the day of the event. Assuming that collectability is reasonably assured due to the size of the event, this method will cause revenue to be recognized in the fiscal period ended on September 30, 2016. Alternative #3: Recognize revenue on October 4, when all the payment is received. The conditions for this alternative are very similar to alternative #2 in the aspect that the only thing that has changed is the condition for the collectability. If we decide to recognize the partial revenue of $15,000 on October 4, 2015, when the customer pays the remaining $15,000, collectability is assured 100 percent because all the payment has been paid. In

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