apter 31 LO 2 S3-6. (Learning Objective 2: Applying accounting concepts and principles) Identify the accounting concept or principle that gives the most direction on how to account for each of the following situations: a. A physician performs a surgical operation and bills the patient's insurance company. It may take four months to collect the payment from the insurance company. Should the physician record revenue now or wait until cash is collected? b. May has been a particularly slow month, and the business will have a net loss for the second quarter of the year. Management is considering not following its customary practice of reporting quarterly earnings to the public. c. Salary expense of $2,835,000 is accrued at the end of the period to measure income properly d. A utility bill is received on December 28 and will be paid next year. When should the company record this utility expense? e. A construction company is building a highway system, and construction will take five years. When should the company record the revenue it earns? 2. Post allee the account the 3. Rend the righ $3-12. (Learning Objectives account) Wie a pr revenues. In your explain sational newspaper, lech s subscribers over a one-year course of st The A the earned subscription rev entries that The Asahi Shimbun v advance, and (b) recund caring! each entry, as illustrated in the