On January 1, 2017, Loud Company enters into a 2-year contract with a customer for an unlimited talk and 5 GB data wireless plan for $68.00 per month. The contract includes a smartphone for which the customer pays $289.00. Loud also sells the smartphone and monthly service plan separately, charging $649.00 for the smartphone and $68.00 for the monthly service for the unlimited talk and 5 GB data wireless plan. On July 1, 2017, the customer realizes that she needs less data in her wireless plan and downgrades to the unlimited talk and 2 GB data plan for the remaining term of the contract (18 months). The unlimited talk and 2 GB data plan is priced at $51.00 per month. The $51.00 per month is Loud's current stand-alone price for this plan that is available to all customers.

Required:

1.How should Loud account for this contract modification?

2.Provide Loud's new monthly revenue recognition journal entry.