Financial Accounting Analysis: Beachlife Ltd. Case Study Report

This financial accounting report, prepared by Magenta and Associates for Beachlife Ltd., addresses critical accounting issues, particularly contingent liabilities and asset valuation. The report delves into the definition and examples of contingent liabilities, emphasizing their disclosure in financial statements according to AASB 137 and IFRS. It recommends accounting treatments for Beachlife Ltd., including the recognition of intangible assets based on director valuations and the handling of a sales contract with Alpine Ltd., including warranty and potential refunds. The analysis covers the appropriate classification of financial items in the balance sheet and income statement, providing guidance on the treatment of sales revenue, maintenance provisions, and contingent liabilities. The report also references relevant accounting standards and provides recommendations for financial reporting practices, ensuring compliance with accounting regulations.

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718 Geelong Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Telephone [phone]
www.magentaandassociates.com.au
17th January 2018
Mr. Christopher Sampson
The Managing Director
Beachlife Ltd.
Level 7, 927 William Street,
Brisbane QLD 4000
Dear Christopher,
We are extremely happy to see that you have remembered us and that is why we would like to
show our gratefulness in response to the mail that you have sent to us. We cannot express our joy
to see that that you have written to us and we assure you to provide you with the best solution
that is available. With those possibly the best solutions it will become easy for you to make the
right choice and that also in an appropriate way. As always we will help you in solving the
problems related to accounting in addition to all those critical problems that you have mentioned

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in the mail. Moreover we will also help you with the recommendation that will be provided to
you as per the Corporation Act 2001, AASB and its representations will adhere to the problems
of accounting that will be reflected by IFRS (Macve 2015).
You should be acquainted with the fact that there is a term known as contingent liabilities which
refer to the fact that there are potential losses that can take place in the future days either due to
the occurrence or non- occurrence of a particular event or at the most due to the after effect of a
specific event as well. There are many examples which can be considered in this case of
contingent liabilities such as the information about failure in organization which is not yet done
and claims for its legit characteristic and the warranty present in every product that are procured
by the customers. The liabilities which are considered as contingent liabilities need to be
displayed in the financial statements of the company and the estimated amount also for keeping a
record in the annual balance sheet (Pratt 2016). This is the particular amount that can save the
company from any kind of crisis situation that can come up in the near future because an amount
of money is already kept aside for the future.
As per Para 29, it can be observed that in combination and in plenty the list of liabilities of the
company need to be treated under the broad heading of contingent liability (Barth 2015). These
are the liabilities which need to be taken care of in the primary stage because there is hardly any
chance that they will take place in the financial year. That is why the scrutiny of these liabilities
has to be in a continuous form so that the output can be easily recognized and that will help the
company to be beneficial. Again it can be contradicted that the benefit that the company will get
needs to be determined. In determining those, it will be helpful for the current constructive and
the legit responsibilities that had a chance to evolve from the past events can be calculated
properly and an exact amount of money can be kept aside for it. The primary intention behind

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this is that it needs to be adjusted with the balance amount of the ongoing year properly which
will be beneficial in bringing up the cost that was of another year and the financial statuses that
was calculated before can belong to that particular period.
That is the reason why the use of provision inside the company is not considered as a version of
saving but it might look like one in the first place. Whereas it can be identified in general under
the balance sheet which in turn is covered under the broad banner of income statement and it is
kept in place of the expenses. In addition to that, the key factor which differentiates provision
from contingent liabilities is that the former one is taken as a part of the financial statements
where the latter is put under the broad banner of liabilities. Here the amounts are recorded in
terms of a note in the financial statement of the company. Also if there is high potential liability
which is around 60 percent to 90 percent then it needs to be displayed in the financial statement
of the company. On the contrary if the same is more than 5 percent but less than 60 percent then
a record needs to be kept in the form of notes in the financial statement of the company. Again if
the liability rate is below 5 percent then the company is not allowed to take up any action
regarding it.
Hence, in compliance with the AASB 137 in the Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and
Contingent Assets, the problem is well mentioned in the previous email received from you
(Henderson et al. 2015). In that case it can be recommended that the intangible assets should be
present in the balance sheet which will lead to the paying back and then the related identification.
For the given case the company has an asset of the value of $87 million as per 30th June 2017
which was recognized by the valuation of the directors. Thus it can be stated that the company
must make amendments in its policies and procedures along with the ongoing happenings
keeping in mind the recognition of accounting with that of the cost so that it can be carried out

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and developed on an internal basis. The intangible assets of the company also have a life which
will be helpful in paying off the debts within the time frame when it was being used. So this
particular amount can be used with the purpose of paying back which needs to be reported at the
cost of $87 million so that it can be applied with the remaining vale of the assets.
In accordance with the second case, it can be observed that the Beachlife Ltd. had gone over a
sales contract with the Alpine Ltd. on 12th December 2017 with a particular amount of $180000
on the basis of which the payment was done in 31st December 2017. Nevertheless the required
equipments were delivered by the company on 22nd December 2017. As per the contract that took
place between the two companies, Alpine Ltd. had provide a maintenance factor for the first year
after the procurement was completed by the company about the product (Warren 2016). For
maintenance the amount that was fixed had a value of $15000. But the Alpine Ltd. was not at all
happy with the service provided to them regarding maintenance that was provided to them and
that is why they claimed a refund of 15 percent of the total amount that they paid which makes it
a total of $180000 * 15% = $27000. Therefore it can observed in this case that Beachlife Ltd.
must demonstrate an amount of $180000 as the recorded sale under the broad banner of income
related to the sale of the equipments because they had got their exact amount within 31st
December 2017. Also the amount of $15000 which was kept aside for maintenance will now be
placed under the banner of contingent liability in the balance sheet and also recorded in the
income statement under the banner of provision. The amount of $27000 must be illustrated in the
financial statement as contingent liability because there is no probability of this liability.
For further doubt or query, call or mail us at any time without hesitation.

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Yours sincerely
Ms. Lisa Magenta
Manager
Magenta and Associates
Copy: Emily Thompson
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