*Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy 1. What are the factors that likely explain the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity and its reported book value of equity? The most obvious reason for the difference between the market value of equity and the book value of equity is the inability to record certain intangible assets such as brand value, customer loyalty, and perhaps most importantly, human capital. These intangible assets are likely to provide tremendous earnings growth in the future which determines the company’s market value. Notice also that the company’s choice of conservative accounting policies has the effect of depressing the company’s book value of equity. 2. What effect did Microsoft’s …show more content…
3. What effect did Microsoft’s revenue recognition policy have on its financial statements? Ignore any potential tax effects. a. Estimate the amount of revenue that Microsoft would have been reported in each year from 1996 through 1999 if Microsoft had not adopted its new revenue recognition policy in 1996. [pic] b. Why do you think Microsoft decided to defer a portion of its revenues in fiscal 1996? The company’s decision to defer revenues came at a time of significant growth in revenues—suggesting that the company’s decision to defer revenues was partially to dampen or “smooth” the company’s revenue growth. The company’s decision to defer revenue had the effect of reducing reported revenue growth from 88% to 64% in the first quarter of 1996 and increasing revenue growth from 4% to 15% in the first quarter of 1997. Even as reported the first quarter of 1997 represented the lowest quarterly revenue growth in the company’s history. While the timing of the company’s decision to defer revenues appears particularly opportune, the introduction of Windows 95 to the market provides a legitimate reason for the decision. As described in the case, the company expected to integrate its Internet technologies into both Windows 95 and Office 97 “at no additional cost to customers.” Arguably, then, sales of these products were improved by these
2. On the basis of the response to Question 1, discuss the revenue recognition accounting literature
a. Book value equals the $800,000 the founder of the firm has contributed in tangible assets. Market value equals the value of his patent plus the value of the production plant: $50,000,000 + $800,000 = $50,800,000.
Microsoft earned more on the dollar of their net income for each dollar of the stockholder's equity.
1. As of December 31, 2011, what amount, if any, of sales due should be recognized in eVade’s financial statements?
Over the past few years the economy in the United States has taken a downturn. It has been so bad, that some businesses were not able to survive. However, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) was not one of those companies. The fiscal strength of Microsoft played a large part in providing the company with the ability and resources to survive the difficult financial markets (Microsoft Corporation, 2009). As a
d. For each item in quotations, provide the year-end total disclosed in Darden’s 2007 income statement. Write a journal entry to record the activity for the year. Assume that the company recorded a single (summary) journal entry.
3) How much of Intel’s 2012 total provision for income taxes was current tax expense, and how much was deferred tax expense?
D. there is no way to determine what has happened to supply and demand with this information
d. The alternative is accounting profit, it estimates BRK by its size, by the performance of the company.
3. How would you judge whether a firm is likely to face revenue recognition problems?
Microsoft, a key figure in the technology industry, presents many key products and services that help the technology industry grow to where it has gotten. Microsoft is a corporation that is the NASDAQ market. The company provides products and services in the technology industry. The products highlighted for the 2015 fiscal year for Microsoft were the Surface family, Microsoft Office 365, and Xbox console to name a few. Microsoft has a retail sector that have both online and in store locations, with addition to business to business commerce. In the SEC 10-K analysis for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2015, Microsoft includes key financial features to include nonmanufacturing (selling and administrative expenses) to go along with the
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3. Refer to the monthly sales forecasts given in the first Table. Assume that these amounts are realized and that the firm’s customers pay exactly as predicted.
Attached is an Income Statement from 2005 to 2007 (Microsoft Corporation Annual Report, 2008). As you can see, revenues and net income have continued to increase over the years. Earnings per share have increased as well. This shows that Microsoft is in a good financial standing. This means they are able to pay their shareholders and increase what they