Blanchard Construction Company entered into a long-term construction contract with the government to build a special landing

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Blanchard Construction Company entered into a long-term construction contract "with the government to build a special landing strip at an Air Force base in Saint Huber t, Quebec. The project took three years and cost the government $12 million. Blanchard spent the following amounts each year: 2017, $2 million; 2018, $5 million; and 2019, $3 million. The company uses the percentage of completion method. Cost estimates equaled actual costs.


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1. Determine the amount of profit that Blanchard can report each year for this project Ignore income taxes.
2. Assume that the costs of this project could not be estimated reliably. What amount of profit should the company recognize in each of the three years? Explain.

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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-1259105692

6th Canadian edition

Authors: Robert Libby, Patricia Libby, Daniel G Short, George Kanaan, Maureen Sterling

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