Merry Maidens Cleaning generally charges $300 for a detailed cleaning of a normal-size home. However, to generate additional bus
iness, Merry Maidens is offering a new-customer discount of 10%. On May 1, Ms. E. Pearson has Merry Maidens clean her house and pays cash equal to the discounted price. Required: Record the revenue recognized by Merry Maidens Cleaning on May 1. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field.)
The required entries relating to revenue recognized by Merry Maidens Cleaning on May 1 are:
Debit Cash [$300 x 0.9] $270
Credit Service revenue $270
<em>(To recognize the service revenue from house cleaning)</em>
Explanation:
Merry Maidens Cleaning offers service discount of 10% on a detailed cleaning of a normal-size home and charges $300, generally. This means, on May 1, Ms. E. Pearson was charged $270 ($300 x 0.9). Since the customer paid cash on the same date, the company would recognize it by debiting cash (for receipt of the money) and crediting revenue. Note that this does not necessarily means the company adopts the cash basis of accounting.
John's ingredient is his intellectual property. By giving the right regarding the usage of the ingredient to another business entity and by receiving a sales volume related <em>royalty payment</em> for each box sold, John is involved in a <em>licensing agreement</em>.
Two parties are involved in each licensing agreement: the licencor and the licencee. In this example, John is the licencor and the cereal manufacturer is the licencee. Both of the parties sign the licensing agreement, which is active over a specified amount of time.
Licensing is not to be confused with <em>franchising</em>. It refers to a specific business model when the franchisee operates under the brand (logo and trademark) of the franchiser, but essentially keeps its independence branch-wise. Best examples are McDonald's and KFC.
a. increase over time, reaching par value at maturity
Explanation:
If current yield is more than coupon rate, it means that the bond price is less than par value, as time to maturity decreases bond value amortizes to par value. Thus, If an investor purchases a bond when its current yield is higher than the coupon rate, then the bond's price will be expected to <u>increase over time, reaching par value at maturity.</u>
