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The following accounting issues memo illustrates the determination of whether Scientific Laboratories should report its R&D cost as capitalized, or not capitalized.

This means that under the company’s current policy, revenue is recognized too early, before delivery, while actual payment is not received until 30 days after customer acceptance or until the 90-day warranty period has ended. Furthermore, the 90 day warranty provision creates an uncertainty in the collectibility of sales proceeds.

Increased leverage would increase the risk for the shareholder. This is due to the fact that an increased amount of debt would increase the financial return that investors expect. For example, if a company has no debt and posts better than expected earnings, the equity holder would get all of this benefit. If the company had some debt and posted better than expected earnings, the bond holders would get a fixed payment as usual, and shareholders would still enjoy increased profits; the problem arises if worse than expected profits were shown by Kelly Services. If Kelly Services had no debt and posted bad earnings, then the equity bears all the risk in that situation. However, if Kelly

Higher leverage is very likely to create value for a firm considering capital structure change by exerting financial discipline and more efficient corporate strategy changes.

Higher leverage is very likely to create value for a firm considering capital structure change by exerting financial discipline and more efficient corporate strategy changes.

Rate each of the following statements as TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer with an example or explanation to prove and illustrate your understanding. DO NOT OMIT THIS PART OF THE TEST. True/False answers can be guessed. But when you defend your answer by example or explanation, you demonstrate not only your memory and understanding but also that you can apply what you have learned. The first question is answered for you.

One of Citigroup’s main concerns was the risk of their exposure from holding leveraged loans. Due to the increasing risks and

The consequences of increasing credit period are more cash required to be invested in working capital and also losses due to increased bad debts.

It seems then that companies should fully leverage the company or a least come close to doing so but there is a probability that the company enters financial distress as its leverage (D/E) increases. Financial distress can be very costly for companies, and the cost for this scenario is shown in the current market value of the levered firm's securities. Investors factor the potential for future distress into their assessment of the present value (this is where PV of distress costs is subtracted from un-levered company value and the PV of the tax-shield.) The value for the costs

Costs associated with the project in the research phase are expensed while costs associated with the project in the development phase are capitalised.

Day’s sales in receivable is the average of number of days that a company usually takes before collecting the credit sales. Walmart takes on average 5 days to collect the money, While Boeing takes on average 29 days to collect credits sales. In this case, Boeing takes longer times to collect the money.

Increase in debt-to-capital ratio can cause agency cost of Agency cost of debt will be more problematic This level will involve highest agency debt to be higher. However, at level of 20%, it is still because the managers are not left with freedom cost of debt. considerably low. to operate the company.

High Rate of Borrowing: If the Bank’s rate of borrowing is high, borrowers tend to seek lower cost of financing for example, issuers of commercial papers, etc to reduce overall interest expense and ultimately improve on company’s cash flow from operations.

A steep leverage curve can tempt reckless behaviour; executives overly focused on short-term results can pose risk to long-term value creation. Separately, executives with significant shareholdings can become risk-averse and miss opportunities.

Additionally, ASC 805-20-30-4 states that a separate valuation allowance should not be recognized for accounts receivable as the parent is recording fair market value, which already takes into consideration an allowance for uncollectable accounts.