Other terms and conditions remain the same as we agreed on our previous letters.()
A.terms and conditions
B.the same
C.agreed
D.on
A.terms and conditions
B.the same
C.agreed
D.on
Under the terms of 2/10 net 30, the buyer may:
A . deduct 10% of the invoice amount for payment within 30 days
B . deduct 2% of the invoice for payment within 10 days
C . incurs a penalty on 10% for payments more than 30 days late
D . settle the invoice with 2 equal payments; one within 10 days and the other within 30 days
E . None of the above
(71)
A.in which
B.that
C.which
D.on that
Required:
(a) (i) Discuss the main weaknesses in the current standard on revenue recognition; (11 marks)
(ii) Discuss the reasons why it might be relevant to take into account credit risk and the time value of money in assessing revenue recognition. (5 marks)
Professional marks will be awarded in part (a) for clarity and expression of your discussion. (2 marks)
(b) (i) Venue enters into a contract with a customer to provide computers at a value of $1 million. The terms are that payment is due one month after the sale of the goods. On the basis of experience with other contractors with similar characteristics, Venue considers that there is a 5% risk that the customer will not pay the amount due after the goods have been delivered and the property transferred. Venue subsequently felt that the financial condition of the customer has deteriorated and that the trade receivable is further impaired by $100,000.
(ii) Venue has also sold a computer hardware system to a customer and, because of the current difficulties in the market, Venue has agreed to defer receipt of the selling price of $2 million until two years after the hardware has been transferred to the customer.
Venue has also been offering discounts to customers if products were sold with terms whereby payment was due now but the transfer of the product was made in one year. A sale had been made under these terms and payment of $3 million had been received. A discount rate of 4% should be used in any calculations.
Required: Discuss how both of the above transactions would be treated in subsequent financial statements under IAS 18 and also whether there would be difference in treatment if the collectability of the debt and the time value of money were taken into account. (7 marks)
e been in () since 1923 and can boast having vast and wide experience in all lines we handle. Our Bankers are Bank of China, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of Hong Kong, from whom you will be able to () all the information you may require in regard to our business integrity and financial ().We shall be () if you let us know your trade terms, etc. and forward samples and other helpful literature with a view to getting into business in near future. We hope this letter will be a forerunner to many years of profitable business to both parties and look forward to the () of hearing from you.
(b) You are an audit manager with specific responsibility for reviewing other information in documents containing
audited financial statements before your firm’s auditor’s report is signed. The financial statements of Hegas, a
privately-owned civil engineering company, show total assets of $120 million, revenue of $261 million, and profit
before tax of $9·2 million for the year ended 31 March 2005. Your review of the Annual Report has revealed
the following:
(i) The statement of changes in equity includes $4·5 million under a separate heading of ‘miscellaneous item’
which is described as ‘other difference not recognized in income’. There is no further reference to this
amount or ‘other difference’ elsewhere in the financial statements. However, the Management Report, which
is required by statute, is not audited. It discloses that ‘changes in shareholders’ equity not recognized in
income includes $4·5 million arising on the revaluation of investment properties’.
The notes to the financial statements state that the company has implemented IAS 40 ‘Investment Property’
for the first time in the year to 31 March 2005 and also that ‘the adoption of this standard did not have a
significant impact on Hegas’s financial position or its results of operations during 2005’.
(ii) The chairman’s statement asserts ‘Hegas has now achieved a position as one of the world’s largest
generators of hydro-electricity, with a dedicated commitment to accountable ethical professionalism’. Audit
working papers show that 14% of revenue was derived from hydro-electricity (2004: 12%). Publicly
available information shows that there are seven international suppliers of hydro-electricity in Africa alone,
which are all at least three times the size of Hegas in terms of both annual turnover and population supplied.
Required:
Identify and comment on the implications of the above matters for the auditor’s report on the financial
statements of Hegas for the year ended 31 March 2005. (10 marks)
People who came to the bar were ______. ()
A.mostly salesmen
B.mostly passengers
C.only conductors
D.only visitors
Newspapers have one basic purpose – to get news as quickly as possible from their source, from those who make it to those who want to know it. Radio, television, and other inventions brought competition for newspapers, so did the development of magazines and other means of communication. However, this competition merely stimulated the newspapers to quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the speed of their own operations. Today more newspapers are printed and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers informed of the latest news, today’s newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters.
Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices through advertising. Most depend on advertising for their very existence. Newspapers are sold at a price that fails to cover even a small part of the production cost. The main source of income for most newspapers is advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This is measured in terms of circulation (发行量): How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends, to some extent, on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment offered in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as a source of information about the community, city, country, state, nation, and world – and even outer space.
45.According to the passage, the basic purpose of newspapers is to ________.
A.cover the cost of production
B.inform. readers of the latest news
C.influence readers’ economic choices
D.educate readers about important matters
46.What does the author try to tell us in the first paragraph?()
A.Important events take place every day
B.Newspapers should give details to the public
C.Newspapers tell us what happens in the world
D.Reporters should go to the spot to collect news
47.Which of the following is a consequence of competition for newspapers?()
A.Newspapers serve other purposes than reporting news
B.Newspapers are read by less people than ever before
C.Newspapers have to have entertainment pages
D.Newspapers have to sell at a very low price
48.The most important factor in selling newspapers successfully is to ________.
A.improve the work of the circulation department
B.provide attractive and special services to readers
C.offer more interesting and entertaining information
D.provide valuable information to attract more readers
49.What can we learn about advertising in newspapers?()
A.Advertising adds a lot of value to newspapers
B.Newspapers would not exist without advertising
C.Newspapers depend on advertising to keep going
D.Advertising makes newspapers sell at a good price
(i) Mr Lee would subscribe RMB 70,000 yuan in cash and RMB 110,000 yuan in the form. of computer software. He should make the first payment of RMB 20,000 yuan in cash to the special account of the certified public accountant firm, and the remaining RMB 50,000 yuan plus the computer software would be contributed within one year upon the incorporation of the company.
(ii) Mr Wang would subscribe RMB 150,000 yuan in the form. of equipment and land use right and make all the capital contributions within six months upon the incorporation of the company.
(iii) Mr Chan would subscribe RMB 270,000 yuan in cash. The first payment of RMB 90,000 yuan should be made before the incorporation, the remaining RMB 180,000 yuan should be made in the third year upon the incorporation of the company.
Required:
Answer the following questions in accordance with the Company Law of China, and give your reasons for your answers:
(a) discuss whether the initial capital contributions made by the sponsors were in conformity with relevant provisions of law; (3 marks)
(b) discuss the total amount of capital contributions in currency; (3 marks)
(c) state whether the time arrangement of making capital contributions by the three sponsors respectively was in conformity with the relevant provisions of law. (4 marks)
4 Hogg Products Company (HPC), based in a developing country, was recently wholly acquired by American Overseas
Investments (AOI), a North American holding company. The new owners took the opportunity to completely review
HPC’s management, culture and systems. One of the first things that AOI questioned was HPC’s longstanding
corporate code of ethics.
The board of AOI said that it had a general code of ethics that HPC, as an AOI subsidiary, should adopt. Simon Hogg,
the chief executive of HPC, disagreed however, and explained why HPC should retain its existing code. He said that
HPC had adopted its code of ethics in its home country which was often criticised for its unethical business behaviour.
Some other companies in the country were criticised for their ‘sweat shop’ conditions. HPC’s adoption of its code of
ethics, however, meant that it could always obtain orders from European customers on the guarantee that products
were made ethically and in compliance with its own highly regarded code of ethics. Mr Hogg explained that HPC had
an outstanding ethical reputation both locally and internationally and that reputation could be threatened if it was
forced to replace its existing code of ethics with AOI’s more general code.
When Ed Tanner, a senior director from AOI’s head office, visited Mr Hogg after the acquisition, he was shown HPC’s
operation in action. Mr Hogg pointed out that unlike some other employers in the industry, HPC didn’t employ child
labour. Mr Hogg explained that although it was allowed by law in the country, it was forbidden by HPC’s code of
ethics. Mr Hogg also explained that in his view, employing child labour was always ethically wrong. Mr Tanner asked
whether the money that children earned by working in the relatively safe conditions at HPC was an important source
of income for their families. Mr Hogg said that the money was important to them but even so, it was still wrong to
employ children, as it was exploitative and interfered with their education. He also said that it would alienate the
European customers who bought from HPC partly on the basis of the terms of its code of ethics.
Required:
(a) Describe the purposes and typical contents of a corporate code of ethics. (9 marks)
In the same month, Appliance Co intended to rent a space of 100 m2 from Department Store to exhibit its other appliance products. For this purpose the two parties entered into a rental agreement and agreed upon the following terms and conditions: the term of rental would be one year as from January to December 2011; the total rental would be RMB 400,000 yuan and be paid RMB 100,000 yuan quarterly within the first 10 days of January, April, July and October.
At the end of March 2011 Appliance Co sent Department Store a written notice, stating that it would set off its rental of RMB 200,000 yuan for the second and third instalments with the remaining price of 200,000 yuan for the refrigerators.
Required:
Answer the following questions in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Contract Law, and give your reasons for your answer:
(a) state the nature and different forms of set-off as presented by Appliance Co to Department Store; (4 marks)
(b) state the conditions to be met by Appliance Co when it was claiming the set-off of credit and debt with Department Store. (6 marks)