Easywrite Software Company shipped software to a customer on July 1, 2018. The arrangement with the customer
Question:
Easywrite Software Company shipped software to a customer on July 1, 2018. The arrangement with the customer also requires the company to provide technical support over the next 12 months and to ship an expected software upgrade on January 1, 2019. The total contract price is $243,000, and Easywrite estimates that the individual fair values of the components of the arrangement if sold separately would be as follows:
Software .................................... $210,000
Technical support ..........................30,000
Upgrade .....................................30,000
Required:
1. Determine the timing of revenue recognition for the $243,000.
2. Assume that the $243,000 contract price was paid on July 1, 2018. Prepare a journal entry to record the cash receipt. Disregard the cost of the items sold.
Step by Step Answer:
Intermediate Accounting
ISBN: 9781259722660
9th Edition
Authors: J. David Spiceland, James Sepe, Mark Nelson, Wayne Thomas