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1- a. According to ASC 605-25-25-5 , a delivered item in an arrangement with multiple deliverables shall be considered a separate unit of accounting if the following criteria are met:

* The delivered item or items have value to the customer on a standalone basis, which is satisfied in this case. * When vendor-specific objective evidence or third-party evidence of selling price for deliverables is absent, the vendor is allowed to give an objective estimation of the price of deliverable unit on standalone basis (in accordance with ASU No.2009-13), which is generally satisfiable. * If the arrangement includes a general right of return relative to the delivered item, where the delivery or …show more content…

Additionally, both of the following conditions shall be met: The services are not essential to the functionality of any other element of the transaction, and the services are described in the contract such that the total price of the arrangement would be expected to vary as the result of the inclusion or exclusion of the services.
Also the deliverables in this case do meet the general separation criteria under FASB ASC 605-25-25-5. This is because the software does have a standalone value to the customer, and there is an objective and reliable evidence of fair market value for the installation, and there is no reference or evidence that a general right of return granted by the supplier. Therefore we can consider the units in this arrangements as separate entities and use the relative selling price method to account for them.
250,000 + 5,000 + 57,500 = 312,500 total base . 250,000/312,500 = 80% of the actual price of the arrangement to be allocated to the software. 5,000/ 312,500 = 1.6% of the actual price of the arrangement to be allocated to the installation. 57,500/ 312,500 = 18.4% of the actual price of the arrangement to be allocated to the technical support. The relative price of the software would be $240,000, the relative price of the installation would be $4,800 and the

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