Assume that a manufacturing company usually pays a waste company(by the pound) to haul away manufacturing waste. Recently, a landfill gas company offered to buy a small portion of the waste for cash, saving the manufacturing facility a portion of its disposal costs and providing it with proceeds from the disposal.

The sale of manufacturing waste is not a primary business activity of the manufacturing; however, it will now result in inflow cash.

Which is more appropriate classifying this transaction as an increase in revenue or a decrease in expense, or be recorded as a gain

Assume you are the occupant of a building for which you have just entered into a 2-year lease agreement. Due to the short term nature of the arrangement; the lease will likely be classified as an operating issue.

The FASB is currently proposing fundamental changes to lease accounting, based in part on their view that a lessees obligation to make payments over the lease period meets the definition of a liability. Using language from CONN 6, state whether you believe the lessees obligation meets the definition of a liability.

Analysis- Why might a lessees obligation to meet the definition of a liability?