ACCTG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deferred Income, Income Statement

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23 Oct 2020
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Sales allowances (right of returns, volume discounts, or retailer promotions causing reduction of the amount cash companies receive from sales) Gaap requires companies to report sales revenue at net expected to be received in cash, thereby companies must deduct the expected sales returns, or other allowances, from gross sales. Levi must set up reserve for estimated returns. Companies must provide a reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances for the past three years in its 10-k. Additions charged to net sales as compared with gross sales for both sales returns and sales discounts and incentives. Reveals effects of pricing pressure on net sales; increasing pricing pressure is evident when allowances increase as a percentage of gross sales. Compare annual deductions from the allowance account (realized sales returns) with the additions charged to net sales. To analyze, we look for divergence between the amount charged to sales and the cost actually incurred.

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