Construction Contracts: Measuring Revenues, Expenses and COGS

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According to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, the businesses should use the ‘percentage of completion method’ for recording the revenues and expenses in the same accounting period when they were incurred. The fixed assets like building space, warehouse, plant manufacturing, etc., can take years. A company can leave the financial statements blank for all times when work was in progress. It will violate the accrual principle to record some million revenues at the end of the construction. IAS 11 regulates the accounting treatment of construction contracts. The appropriation of revenues and expenses should be made in the relevant accounting period according to the work’s percentage completion.

What is Job Costing?

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• GAAP also allows the completed contract method, in which a contractor don’t recognize expenses or revenues until the contract is finished.
• Instead of depreciation, governments employing the modified approach report annual expenses for the cost of maintaining and preserving the assets at the predetermined condition level.
• You may receive a warning message similar to this if either of your dates falls on a non-working day (e.g. weekend).
• In other words, it tracks how money “accrues,” or accumulates, in holding before it moves as cash.

Control is transferred when the constructed asset becomes the customer’s to own. If it’s on the customer’s land, the foundation of a building might come under the customer’s control as soon as it’s poured, the frame as soon as it’s put up, etc. With a total development project, transfer of control might not be until the contractor hands over the keys. But because it’s part of a contract obligation, the parties must settleahead of time when control is transferred — at a point in time or over time — in order to account for income appropriately. To be eligible, contractors can’t exceed a certain average annual revenue and their contracts must be able to be completed within a set timeframe.

Integrated Reporting

If the company has multiple CIPs, the accountant will categorize each project separately. Each section of the balance sheet — assets, liabilities, and equity — provides a different view into the company’s finances. However, all three sections are related, as total assets are equivalent to the sum of liabilities and equity.

After the construction has been completed, the relevant building, plant, or equipment account is debited with the same amount as construction in progress. After the completion of construction, the company will record depreciation on the asset. However, the term ‘ construction under process’ is used when the company is making construction contracts. It can be a selling contract of building a ship, airplane, building, or other fixed assets. Therefore, the construction in progress is a non-current asset account that keeps a record of all the costs incurred until completion. A construction company might come to your mind by reading the phrase “Construction In Progress.” Indeed, construction in progress accounting is mostly used by construction firms.

Related Standards

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