Answer:
Credit to refund liability of $280,000.
Explanation:
The year end adjusting entry would be
Sales Return $280,000 ($21 million × 8% - $1,400,000)
Refund Liability $280,000
(Being the anticipated sales return is recorded)
Here the sales return is debited as it increased the sales return and the refund liability is credited as it increased the liabilities
The same is to be considered
For each item listed the allocation terminology for the items are as follows:
Amortization: Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Annual licensing fees.
Depreciation: Buildings, Equipment and Land Improvements.
Depletion: None.
None of these: Land, Research and Development Costs and Franchises.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Throughout accounting, amortization applies to multiple-period distribution of revenues. The concept is used for two isolated processes: loan amortization and asset amortization. Depreciation is the reduction in asset value and the process used to redeploy or "write down" a tangible asset's expense (like equipment) over its expected life period.
Depletion is a term of accounting and taxation generally used in coal, forestry, petroleum, or other related industries. Depletion is identical to depreciation in that it is an accounting and tax tracking system for cost recovery.
Answer: Craft new initiatives to more strongly differentiate the various products/services in each of the company's businesses and thereby enhance the competitive power and reputation of the company's brand name
Explanation:
Once a company has diversified into a collection of related or unrelated businesses and concludes that some strategy adjustments are needed, the one that isn't one of the main strategy options that the company can pursue is crafting new initiatives to more strongly differentiate the various products or services in each of the company's businesses and thereby enhance the competitive power and reputation of the company's brand name.
This is because some strategies adjustment are needed and enhancing its competitive power isn't the right thing to do.
Answer:
A. Holiday lights in mid-December: Scarce on occasion: Holiday lights are only scarce on holiday season when the demand increases.
B. Air regardless of quality: Not scarce
: Only high quality air (clean) is scare.
C. Land: Inherently scarce: No matter what we do, our planet is only one.
D. Patented goods: Artificially scarce: Patents are scarce because a law protects them.
E. Original Picasso paintings: Inherently scarce: Picasso is dead, so he cannot paint anymore.