Question 21

Company B sold a service contract that covers a two-year period for $10,000. The service period commenced on July 1, Year 1. Service revenue is recognized evenly throughout the contract period. What amount should Company B report as deferred revenue from this service contract on its balance sheet on December 31, Year 1?
  • Question 22

    Which of the following activities will NOT cause total assets to increase?
  • Question 23

    In Dec. of 2013, a company signed a promissory note and recorded a note payable of $150,000. This note is payable in three equal annual installments beginning from Dec. of 2014. How should the company report the note payable on its Dec. 31, 2013 balance sheet?
  • Question 24

    A company manager commissions a report to study the relationship between sales volume (in thousands of units) and the number of computers in each of the company's offices.

    When the manager receives the report, however, the p-value for the independent variable is missing. Based on the rest of the regression output, which of the following numbers is the correct p-value?
  • Question 25

    While proposing an advertising campaign to a supermarket, a marketing firm claimed that a previous campaign it designed for a department store increased sales by 10 percent. Which of the following research strategies should the supermarket pursue to determine whether this claim is justified?
    I. Research sales growth for the department store's competitors during the time of the campaign.
    II. Research sales growth for the marketing firm's other clients after their campaigns.
    III. Research sales growth for companies that used different marketing companies' campaigns.
    IV.
    Research the department store's sales growth prior to the marketing campaign.