For the following financial reporting assessment opportunities (AO), provide a resolution to each AO and ensure that the resolution is well supported by appropriate standard references.

Question 3 International Clothing Ltd. (ICL) is in the fiercely competitive retail clothing market. A public company, ICL has been seeing its profits steadily decline in recent years. Feeling pressure from its shareholders to rectify the situation, ICL's management team has decided to undertake a massive re-organization that will help streamline operations. In effect, an entire layer of middle-management will be let go and many offices will merge into one location to save costs. The CFO and her finance team have worked closely with the COO and come up with what they feel is a solid plan for the restructuring. The total cost of the restructuring, including termination packages, cost of lease cancellations, and all other restructuring costs has been calculated to be $2.3 million. At a meeting of the Board held at the end of the November, 20x7, the Management team presented their plan to the Board. The plan was for the restructuring to begin in February, 20x7, during the slowest time of the year for ICL. The Board approved the plan in a unanimous vote, but indicated that they did not want management to inform any of the employees of the plan until January, 20x7, "to let them enjoy the holiday season." ICL has a November 30th year end