Question

Question 2

Part A

Luxury Living Concepts Corp. (LLC) is a publicly accountable enterprise that builds large complexes, including schools, office towers, apartment buildings and shopping centres, on a contract basis. Additional information with respect to the company is as follows:

- LLC’s year end is December 31.

- The company uses the cost-to-cost approach to determine the stage of completion of its construction projects.

- The enterprise rounds the percentage of completion to two decimal places (for example, 13.54%).

- A discount rate of 4% adequately reflects the underlying credit risk of LLC’s customer for this transaction.

In 20X1, LLC entered into a $120 million contract to construct a shopping mall over a three-year period. Construction of the project was completed in late 20X3. Total costs were originally estimated to be $98 million. LLC’s progress on the contract and other pertinent information is detailed below:

in 000's	20X1	20x2*	20x3**	Total
Costs incurred during year	23,000	55,000	43,000	121,000
Cumulative costs incurred to date	23,000	78,000	121,000
Estimated costs to complete	72,000	46,000	0
Progress Billings during the year	29,000	51,000	40,000	120,000
Collections during the year	22,000	50,000	48,000	120,000

* The revised cost data was not known in 20X1.

** The revised cost data was not known in 20X2.

Required:

a) Prepare the required journal entries to record transactions relating to the contracts for the 20X1, 20X2 and 20X3 fiscal periods. Show all supporting calculations for each journal entry. The calculations are to be referenced or included in the description of the journal entry.

b) Prepare the excerpts of LLC’s statements of financial position as at December 31, 20X1, and December 31, 20X2 (exclude the impact on cash and retained earnings).

Part B

Refer to the facts in Part A. Independent of the requirements in Part A, assume that the additional cost in 20X2 resulted from changes to the project requested by the customer in 20X2 and that the customer agreed to increase the contract price to $140 million. The additional $20 million was added by LLC to its final progress billing in 20X3 and was paid by the customer during that year.

Required:

a) Determine the revenue to be recognized by LLC in each of 20X1, 20X2 and 20X3.

b) Determine the expense to be recognized by LLC in each of 20X1, 20X2 and 20X3.

Show all supporting calculations for requirements a) and b) to be eligible to receive partial marks.

Answer 1