Marvin the Martian has contacted you asking for help in preparing his company's financial statements. After reviewing Earth's accounting literature, he is confused about whether to prepare his financial statements in accordance with U.S GAAP or IFRS.

As Mars does not have a regulatory framework for accounting, its companies are free to prepare their financial statements using any form of GAAP. Marvin Company is a manufacturing company located on the Planet Mars, and has just completed its first year of trading. As it sole stockholder, Marvin wishes to prepare 'strong' financials in order to attract new galactic investors to finance the acquisition of a local space station. The following trial balance was generated for the company at 12/31/2020:

Trial Balance for Marv Ltd as at 31 December 2020

$000s $000s

Common Stock ($1 shares) 5,100

Trade and other accounts payable 900

Revenue 4300

Beginning Inventory at 1 January 2020 0

Raw materials used in production 400

Production and factory wages 200

Factory Rent for 2020 100

Plant and equipment at cost 5,000

Administration expenditure 200

Distribution expenditure

Cash 250

Research and development expenditure 1900

Patent legal costs 700

Loan interest paid on construction loan (before capitalization) 640

Interest received on unused portion of construction loan 90

Manufacturing facility at construction cost 3200

Construction loan 3200

Freehold land at cost 1,000

13,590 13,590

The company has not yet determined appropriate accounting policies for inventory, non-current assets and research and development. The following information is made available:

1. Marv uses the periodic inventory measurement approach. The ending inventory of finished goods at December 31 2020 was valued on a first in, first out basis at $400,000, on a weighted average cost basis at $700,000 and a LIFO basis at $1,200,000.Assume that the company does not keep inventories of raw materials and unfinished work in process.

2. The manufacturing plant and equipment has an estimated useful economic life of four years and a residual value at the end of that period of $500,000. The accountant believes it appropriate to use either the straight-line, double declining balance, or the diminishing balance (applying a depreciation rate of 44% per year to the current net book value) methods for calculating annual depreciation.

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3. Research ($500,000) and development expenditure ($1,400,000) were incurred researching, developing and completing a new manufacturing process. The process is expected to be operational on March 1 2021 and is estimated to have a useful economic life of ten years and have no residual value. When development commenced, the company's engineers were sure of the technical and commercial feasibility of the project as it was expected to result in significant reductions to production costs.

4. At 31 December 2020, the company's freehold land was valued at $1,900,000. Land is not depreciated.

5. As a result of a meteor hitting Mars on 12/31/2020, the company's manufacturing plant and equipment must be tested for impairment. The following data is made available:

Net book value of plant and equipment (i.e. carrying value) at 12/31/2020 Use your own calculations, after accounting for annual depreciation

Fair value (i.e. selling price) $3,300,000

Cost of asset disposal $600,000

Expected future cash flows from use $3,600,000

Present value of expected future cash flows from use $2,900,000

Note: the impairment has not been accounted for in the trial balance at 12/31/2020. Account for this, after depreciating the plant. Any impairment loss must be expensed and added to the accumulated depreciation in the balance sheet.

6. On 12/1/2020, the company incurred $200,000 of legal fees to register a 10 year patent for the new manufacturing process. On 12/14/2020, the company incurred $500,000 of legal fees to successfully defend its patent in a New York court. The court's verdict did not increase the future value of the patent. If you choose to capitalize the intangible patent cost(s), assume that there is no amortization during 2020.

7. On January 1 2020, the company signed a contract for the construction of a new factory. To finance this expansion, the company obtained a specific $3,200,000 construction loan at an annual interest rate of 20% per year. The factory was completed on December 31 2020. The total construction cost (excluding borrowing and interest costs) was $3,200,000.

The loan financed the construction costs of the factory. Construction fees of $2,000,000 were paid to the construction on January 1 2020, with a further $1,200,000 paid to the contractor on October 1st 2020. The unused portion of this loan was invested on the money markets at a rate of return equal to 10% per year. The interest income and loan interest are already included in the ending trial balance above.

Using Excel and appropriate journal entries, create answers to the following:

a) Using accounting practices allowed under U.S. GAAP, create an income statement for Marvin Ltd for the year ending December 31 2020 and a statement of financial position at that date that achieve the company's aim of impressing potential investors and lenders. Briefly explain all of the accounting policies that you used to produce this answer. (30 points)

b) Using accounting practices allowed under IFRS, create an income statement for Marvin Ltd for the year ending December 31 2020 and a statement of financial position at that date that achieve the company's aim of impressing potential investors and lenders. Briefly explain all of the accounting policies that you used to produce this answer. (30 points)

c) In your opinion, which set of financial statements prepared in parts (a) and (b) should the company choose to publish for the financial year 2020? Explain your answer. (5 points)

d) Briefly explain which set of financial statements provides the most useful information to users in making decisions about providing resources to the entity"? Justify your answer with reference to the qualitative characteristics of relevance and faithful representation. (10 points)