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ACCT 610 Accounting 1 Module 3 Financial Accounting Heather M Higgins Northern Kentucky University ACCT 610: Accounting January 27, 2024 Dr. Chad Greenfield
ACCT 610 Accounting 2 Module 3 Assignment 1 Financial Accounting and Budgeting For the Sears Company, provide a brief detail of the one-time charges included in the income statement. What do these charges inform the reader regarding the ongoing survival of the company? Since the sale of assets is included in all four of the most recent year’s financial statements what does this inform the reader? Upon reviewing the income statements for Sears company for the years of 2014 through 2017. I was able to locate several on time charges included-on page three of the income statement. These one-time charges were listed under consolidated statements of cash flows below adjustments to reconcile net losses for the years disclosed. The following charges were listed, 1. Tax benefits, 2. Gains on sales of investments, 3. Separation from Lands’ End Inc 4. Proceeds from Sears Canada rights on land 5. An amortization of deferred gain on sales leasebacks 6. The settlement of Canadian dollar hedges. The liquidation of these assets over the years 2014 to 2017 tells the reader that Sears Company is currently in a state where they are currently unable to generate stable revenue due to how their company has been performing according to the years indicated. In addition, the selling of these assets to generate income appears to show the extent to which Sears has been struggling to generate enough annual revenue to ensure their financial stability. When a company continues
ACCT 610 Accounting 3 to experience substantial losses while expenses continue to accrue companies may decide to downsize by closing down underperforming stores and or choose to file bankruptcy. For the GE revenue recognition footnote, can you decipher what this company is attempting to explain to the readers of the financial statements? The premise for the information contained within the footnote provided by GE is to explain their methods for the accounting of goods and services along with how they compute their revenue including investments and services. More specifically GE breaks down how they acknowledge the sales of goods and services according to SEC, Staff accounting bulletin 104. This is especially important for the readers of GE’s financial statements. Without reading the footnote one may find it difficult to see exactly how they account for sales and revenue. Additionally, GE goes on to disclose how they account for revenue as it pertains to military equipment and the sales of aircraft engines. Furthermore, it is explained that GE is involved in long-term agreements and presents to the reader the ways in which they keep track of sales and income directly correlated with long term projects. Lastly, it should be noted that GE is demonstrating their compliance with GAAP by the disclosure of their accounting methods, which is required by law. For the Disney revenue recognition footnote compare the two different footnotes presented and explain the difference between the two and your opinion on why this footnote has changed so significantly in the last 10 years. With regards to the two footnotes provided by Walt Disney, the most notable difference between the two pertains to the footnote for 2005. Within this footnote, the terms and procedures
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