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Basic Question 0 of 15
In order to recognize revenue during the production phase of a product, the expected future costs necessary to complete the product must be reliably estimated. True or False?
User Contributed Comments 7
| User | Comment |
|---|---|
| teddajr | Future revenue recognition prior to completion can be achieved with availability of reliable estimates of expected future costs. |
| kutta2102 | I'm slightly confused. How can we recognize revenue when the product is in the "production" stage? Revenue cannot be recognized until the product is actually delivered to the customer. |
| ppjar | yes you can still recognize revenue even if the project is not complete: think about a huge project that takes years to complete. You would not recognize the revenue after all these years... |
| Drzewes | percentage of completion method, installment sales method... |
| johntan1979 | What about the cost recovery method? Cost cannot be reasonably determined. So the statement above is false, since under this method, sales are recognized when cash is received, but no gross profit is recognized until all of the costs of goods sold are collected. That is, it recognizes profit only when cash collections exceed the total cost of the product sold. |
| schweitzdm | johntan1979 has a point. This question is confusing. |
| kingirm | Reliable or reasonable? |
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Learning Outcome Statements
describe qualities of effective central banks; contrast their use of inflation, interest rate, and exchange rate targeting in expansionary or contractionary monetary policy; and describe the limitations of monetary policy
CFA® 2025 Level I Curriculum, Volume 1, Module 4.