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Memorandum Date: From: Subject: Facts: million.

5/2/21 Penny Woelfert Period of Revenue Recognition and Persuasive Evidence of Arrangement

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Sales were made to 3 customers at $1 million each with a total $3 All three customers received delivery in December of 2012. Following normal business practice, Medical Devices prepared, signed and faxed out sales agreements to each customer in December 2012. One customer signed and returned the sales agreement on December 29, 2012. Two customers signed and returned the sales agreements on January 10, 2013.

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Which period(s) should Medical Device recognize $3 million in sales revenue from sales to three customers who took delivery in December 2012 but signed sales agreements on January 10, 2013 and December 29, 2012?

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FASB Codification: FASB ASC 605-10-25-1 FASB ASC 605-10-25-2 FASB ASC 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.1 FASB ASC 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.2

Alternatives: Alternative 1: Recognize revenue in December for all customers based on when delivery was made. Alternative 2: Recognize revenue according to when the contract was signed. Conclusion: My research indicates the following found under FASB 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.1-2: FASB 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.1, Revenue Recognition states: Revenue generally is realized or realizable and earned when all of the following criteria are met: 1. Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists 2. Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered. 3. The seller’s price to the buyer is fixed and determinable. 4. Collectability is reasonably assured. FASB 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.1, Revenue Recognition expands on Persuasive evidence of an arrangement as follows: “FN3 Concepts Statement 2, paragraph 63 states "Representational faithfulness is correspondence or agreement between a measure or description and the phenomenon it purports to represent." The staff believes that evidence of an exchange arrangement must exist to determine if the accounting treatment represents faithfully the transaction.” FASB 605-10-S99-1, SAB Topic 13.A.2, Persuasive Evidence of an Arrangement, Question 1 refers to a similar situation as Medical Devices Inc. has incurred. The interpretive Response to Question 1 states that the company discussed had a business practice of requiring a written sales agreement and as a result,

“persuasive evidence of an arrangement would require a final agreement that has been executed by the properly authorized personnel of the customer”. In conclusion, Medical Devices Inc. has a regular business practice of requiring a written sales agreement and therefore had persuasive evidence for the sales as of the date of the signed agreements. The revenue from the sales agreements signed on January 10, 2013 should be recorded as of the January signature date. The Revenue from the agreement signed December 29, 2012 should be recorded as of the December signature date....