Sandown has a financial year ended 31 december 2008. Sandown’s revenue includes 16m for goods sold to pending on 1 oct 2008. The terms of the sales are sandown will incur ongoing service cost of 1.2m per annum for 3 years after sales. Sandown make a gross profit of 40% on such service work. Briefly explain how above transaction should be treated under IAS 18.
IAS 18 no longer exists and has been replaced by IFRS 15
May I ask you to read the chapter on IFRS15 in the free course notes downloadable on this site and then, if you still have a problem, post again
If you do post again, I’ll need to know which accounting reference date I’m working to – I presume that it’s 31 December 2008 but I need confirmation of that