Assume you are the accounting manager for Logan’s Landscaping & Design.  On December 1,  2013, Logan Karver, the owner,  presents you with a check for $15,000 from a customer, Anna DeJuliet, to do a landscape design at her residence as soon as the ground thaws in the spring of 2014.  No work on this project can be done until then.  Logan wants you to deposit the check and include the $15,000 in the 2013 income statement.  He is expecting to include the $15,000 in his 2013 net income in order to secure a loan from the bank in January 2014 for some new equipment.  Write a Business Memo in proper format to Logan explaining how this check should be accounted for and why.

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Assume you are the accounting manager for Logan’s Landscaping & Design.  On December 1,  2013, Logan Karver, the owner,  presents you with a check for $15,000 from a customer, Anna DeJuliet, to do a landscape design at her residence as soon as the ground thaws in the spring of 2014.  No work on this project can be done until then.  Logan wants you to deposit the check and include the $15,000 in the 2013 income statement.  He is expecting to include the $15,000 in his 2013 net income in order to secure a loan from the bank in January 2014 for some new equipment.  Write a Business Memo in proper format to Logan explaining how this check should be accounted for and why.

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