South Olympia Systems (SOS) has a long-term project to install a complex information system for a client.

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South Olympia Systems (SOS) has a long-term project to install a complex information system for a client. The project has a contract price of $40 million, and it was scheduled to be completed over four years from 2012 to 2015. SOS uses the percentage of completion method to account for long-term contracts using the cost-to-cost ratio. It is currently early 2015. The following table provides information relating to this project so far:
(amounts in $ millions) Cost incurred in the year Additional costs to complete, estimated at year-end Billings on constr


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a. Compute the amount of revenue that SOS should recognize in each of 2012, 2013, and 2014.
b. The gross profit (loss) for the contract recognized in 2013 is a loss of $9 million. Compute the amount of gross profit for each of 2012 and 2014.
c. Prepare all the journal entries required in 2014, the third year of the contract.

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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 9787300071374

3rd Edition Vol. 1

Authors: Kin Lo, George Fisher

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