Chow Publications Inc. is a publicly traded media company focused on products for the home chef market. The company publishes a monthly magazine that can be purchased at newsstands and is available for annual subscriptions (either paper copy or digital copy).

Chow Publications sells annual subscriptions for $50 (paper copies) or $40 (digital copies). Subscriptions are paid in advance and are non-cancellable. Chow sold for cash 115,000 subscriptions on December 1, 2020, of which 30% were digital subscriptions.

Single issues can be purchased on newsstands. Chow Publications uses various magazine distributors across Canada to rack it at newsstands, charging the newstands $5 per copy. Normally 25,000 copies are sent out each month, with 15% of these being returned unsold. Of the 25,000 magazines sent out in December 2020, all were sold on account, and none of the returned magazines are expected to be resold and, as a result, are sent to recycling. Unsold nagazines are returned by newstands in the following month.

Required

a. Determine how much revenue Chow Publications would be able to recognize in December 2020. Use the five-step model for revenue recognition in preparing your response. Round the per magazine price to three decimal places. ie. $4.965

b. Prepare the required summary journal entries for the contract based on your analysis in part “a.”