Question

Streep Factory provides a 2-year warranty with one of its products which was first sold in 2017. Streep sold $1,000,000 of products subject to the warranty. Streep expects $125,000 of warranty costs over the next 2 years. In that year, Streep spent $70,000 servicing warranty claims. Prepare Streep’s journal entry to record the sales (ignore cost of goods sold) and the December 31 adjusting entry, assuming the expenditures are inventory costs. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Answer 1

Answer:

accounts receivable   1,000,000 debit

   sales revenues                       1,000,000 credit

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warrant  expense    125,000 debit

        warrant liability              125,000 credit

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warranty liability       70,000 debit

             Inventory                       70,000 credit

Explanation:

The sales will be recorded as usual

Then we will recognize based on the company's expectation a warrant liability for 125,000 and a warrant expense for the same value

When the customer claims the warrant we will decrease the liaibility and also inventory as we are replacing the good so it is inventory account which decreases.

The reason why we do this treatment is to avoid charging expenses for the 2017 sales i nthe subsequent period (2019 and 2019) which vilates the matching principles.