The founder, president, and major shareholder of Dewitt Corp. recently sold his controlling interest in the company to a national distributor in the same line of business. The change in ownership was effective June 30, 2017, halfway through Dewitt's current fiscal year.
During the due diligence process of acquiring the company and over the last six months of 2017, the new senior management team had a chance to review the company's accounting records and policies. Dewitt follows ASPE. Although EPS are not part of ASPE, management calculates EPS for its own purposes and applies the IFRS guidelines. By the end of 2017, the following decisions had been made.
1. Dewitt's policy of expensing all interest as incurred will be changed to correspond to the policy of the controlling shareholder whereby interest on self-constructed assets is capitalized. This policy will be applied retrospectively, and going forward it will simplify the consolidation process for the parent company. The major effect of this policy is to reduce interest expense in 2015 by $9,200 and to increase the cost of equipment by the same amount. The equipment was put into service early in 2016. Dewitt uses straight-line depreciation for equipment and a five-year life. Because the interest has already been deducted for tax purposes, the change in policy results in a taxable temporary difference.
2. Deferred development costs of $12,000 remained in long-term assets at December 31, 2016. These were being written off on a straight-line basis with another three years remaining at that time. On reviewing the December 31, 2017 balances (after an additional year of depreciation), management decided that there were no further benefits to be received from these deferrals and there likely had not been any benefits for the past two years. The original costs were tax deductible when incurred.
3. A long-term contract with a preferred customer was completed in December 2017. When discussing payment with the customer, it came to light that a down payment of $30,000 made by the customer on the contract at the end of 2015 had been taken into revenue when received. The revenue should have been recognized in 2017 on completion of the contract.
Dewitt's financial statements (summarized) were as follows at December 31, 2016 and 2017, before any corrections related to the information above. The December 31, 2017 statements are in draft form only and the 2017 accounts have not yet been closed

Instructions
(a) Prepare any December 31, 2017 journal entries needed to put into effect the decisions made by senior management. Where retrospective adjustments are made, record the journal entry to include the effect of income taxes.
(b) Prepare the comparative statement of financial position, income statement, and statement of retained earnings that will be issued to shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2017.
(c) Prepare the required note disclosures for the accounting changes.
(d) Assume now that Dewitt follows IFRS instead of ASPE. Briefly comment on the changes, if any, to the accounting treatment for the three decisions in items 1 to 3 above.

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DEWITT CORP. Statement of Financial Position December 31 Assets 2017 2016 Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity 2017 2016 Current assets $192,300 $168,400 Current liabilities Long-term assets 322,000 311,000 Long-term liabilities $117,000 $103,000 166,000 153,000 50,000 50,000 181,300 173,400 $514,300 $479,400 $514,300 $479,400 Share capital (10,000 shares) Retained earnings DEWITT CORP. ncome Statement Year Ended December 31 Revenues Expenses Income tax (30% effective rate) Net income Earnings per share Dividends declared, per share 20172016 $475,000 $460,000 378,000 376,000 97,000 84,000 29,100 25,200 $67,900 58,800 $6.79 $ 5.88 $6.002.50