Invoice and Revenue Cycle

Net sales consist primarily of revenue from the sale of hardware, software, digital content and applications, peripherals, and service and support contracts. The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collection is probable. Product is considered delivered to the .customer once it has been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the Company's product sales, these criteria are met at the time the product is shipped. For online sales to individuals, the Company defers revenue until the customer receives the product because the Company legally retains a portion of the risk of loss on these sales during transit. The Company recognizes revenue from the sale of hardware products (e.g., Macs, iPhones, Wads, iPods and peripherals), software bundled with hardware that is essential to the functionality of the hardware, and third-party digital content sold on the

The basis of the revenue cycle in Epic is the Hospital Account Record, often abbreviated as the HAR.

a) Postal materials—numerous suppliers of necessary postal and packaging materials. Switching costs are not high. The postal materials suppliers have low bargaining power.

An accounting cycle is a process, or a series of activities, that consists of collecting an organization’s transactions at the end of a reporting period to prepare essential financial statements of a business (Fleury, 2015). The accounting cycle is a strict, methodical set of rules used to ensure the accuracy and conformity of financial statements (Investopedia, 2017). The steps involved with an accounting cycle, the roles each of the step facilitate, the impact of omission, and what financial statements are assembled from the accounting cycle data.

5. No because the amount of the invoice fluctuates for the same product in this type of scheme and therefore it would be difficult to figure out how much the invoice should have been made out for.

Sales invoices are prepared in batches on a daily basis using numbered sales invoices. Sales invoice numbers are automatically generated by the company’s computer system. The accounts receivable clerk does not have appropriate computer rights to override the computer-generated invoice number. Upon preparing sales invoices, the accounts receivable clerk verifies that the first invoice number of the batch is consistent with the last invoice number of the previous batch. Inconsistencies or skipped sales invoice numbers are investigated and resolved before new sales invoices are prepared. The items shipped are compared to the items billed for proper quantity, price, and other sales order terms.

i. With regards to suppliers delivering goods, they simply sent the goods without any prior notification. This led to a variable rate of arrival of stock in the ware houses.

All goods purchased pass through a receiving department under the direction of the chief purchasing agent. The duties of the receiving department are to unpack, count, and inspect the goods. The quantity received is compared with the quantity shown on the receiving department’s copy of the purchase order. If there is no discrepancy, the purchase order is stamped “OK—Receiving Dept.” and forwarded to the accounts payable section of the accounting

There is a five step process to recognize revenue to depict transfers of goods or services to customers in amounts that reflect the consideration to which entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods and services: Identify contracts with customer, identify the performance obligations in the contract, determine the transaction price, allocate the transaction price with the performance obligation in the contract and recognize revenue when or as the entity satisfies the performance obligation.

(b) Cost of Finished Goods Sitting Idle in the Warehouse: They are able to ship out   finished products effectively.

Within this organization, revenue is generated from the services given to patients and the medication given to them. Services such as, Social services, dietary, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and nursing services. Medication distributions and ancillary services impact revenue and reimbursements.

iii) The delivery method is particularly important for commodities that involve significant transportation costs. However, the delivery method in the contract is not mentioned and may cause confusion.

First, in aspects of personal selling this cost will be deducted out of the salesperson’s salary whereas all sales personal receive the same amount of salary. Next, the order processing is role of businesses to deliver consumer products accurately when and where the consumer wants the product is beneficial to retail grocery stores, supermarkets and Foodservice wholesalers. Making deliveries order processing top priority will provide the Cooper Company the fortitude to create competitive prices as well as, make deliveries in a cost-effective manner (Sabri, E. H., Gupta, A. P., & Beitler, M. A. 2007).

1. What parts of the supply chain are most closely involved with the situation in this case? What is the responsibility of each part in order to maintain a smooth flow of material?

Purchasing-Information gained from planning stage used to purchase raw material for products and packaging from supplier.