Accounting Methods

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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.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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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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Hi there!Attached please find the completed assignment in a Word file.Thanks again,Selenica

The cash basis method of accounting is used by small businesses that generally have little reason to
use the accrual basis. In the case of BizCon, the corporation is by far too large to use the cash basis of
accounting. Under the cash basis, expenses and revenues are not matched to any period in which they
are incurred. Bizcon, for example, has several events that work quite differently under either method of
accounting:








180 day financing. Cash-basis accounting would not recognize revenue earned until the
company received the cash for it. Bizcon would not record re...


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