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Michael, after years in finance still love your video's - the best period! Thank you for the information and education you graciously and freely provide the world.
Edspira, you are making it possible to take online accounting classes. Since we don't have lectures, I depend on the expertise of instructors like you to fill the gaps in my understanding, and you are so good at explaining what are to me very complex concepts. Thank you so much!
@@Edspira I see this type of comment so much.. "My professor can't explain as well" etc. I makes me think that education is failing and this is a much better model. TH-cam or something similar where the best explanations get the most view and/or likes.
Some professors don’t want to spend their time and efforts to teach; in stead, they just want to use their teaching platform to do their side businesses.
I have been working as an accountant for 10 years but mainly for retail business. I recently got an offer from an engineering project business. To be honest, after working in retail/wholesale for 10 years, I completely forgot what CIP(or WIP) about. This is the best vedio. It saved time for me to look for my CPA books. Now I can remember the concept. THANK YOU!!!
This was the most helpful accounting video I have seen all semester. Thank you SO MUCH for your help!! I have a final tomorrow and this is reassuring me :)
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, YOU ROCK! I wish I had discover your videos, a couple of years ago. It would have saved me TIME, ENERGY and I would have passed classes, as an adult working student with lack of time, concerns and responsibilities, WITHOUT ANY FRUSTRATION! Following along, and jumping back and forth the Intermediate Accounting Textbook, with the assumptions of prior knowledge liberally taken, and concepts jumbled up and squeezed to fit in out of context, in pages and pages of lessons (seemingly to refer at least to all concepts related, but not really explained) would otherwise prove a futile endeavor. Admittedly my wife was telling me about your videos a month ago, after taking your class and finally passing her Masters level taxation online course, I should have been more diligent in following her advise. Lo and behold, it came to the point of frustration that I had to search the web, and thankfully it led me to your videos. I wish you the VERY BEST!
Your videos are the best! I learn best by lectures, so online school has been really difficult for me. Thank you for helping me to understand this material more clearly!
another way to find the Construction Rev for 2018 is 50% - 20% = 30% then 0.3 x 20mill same with 100% . 100% - 50% = 50% = 0.5 x 20mill = total rev of 2019 Thanks man great tutorial.
+Jon Wallach I don't have a video up for that situation just yet. When there is a loss on the contract you reverse any profit previously recognized and immediately book the anticipated loss.
Thank you so much for the clear explanation. I was very confused with the journal entries in the percent of completion method. But you explained it very well!
Wow! This seems like an easy way to calculate revenue and gross profit. The way I was taught involves lots of calculations lol However, I would like to know how you calculate construction in progress without finding the difference for year 2018. Like you take 50% of $5m and then subtract the previously recognized gross profit? Edited: Nevermind, I found my answer: Estimated total costs in 2018 is now $16 (instead of $15m), so $20m-16m=$4m 50% of $4m = $2m - 1m (previously recognized gross profit in 2017) = $1 gross profit recognized in 2018
I really appreciate your videos! These are so helpful and you do a great job of breaking down complex concepts to make them easier to understand. Also, your voice sounds a little bit like John C. Reilly. I like to picture Dr. Steven Brule teaching me about accounting.
I appreciate your videos, and remembered them. This one was extremely helpful for a current work life situation. Thank you so much for being here, your work is excellent!
No problem. I have 8 videos on revenue recognition on my website free of charge if you want additional study materials. edspira.com/lessons/revenue-recognition Good luck on your exam!
thank you sir for this wonderfull effort really helped me a lot to understand the concept just before a day of my final semester but can you please upload a video in case of we incurred loss on project please
I hope to create such a video this winter break! Unfortunately I haven't been able to create any new videos in the past few weeks and am merely releasing ones I created over the summer. I'm sorry I haven't been able to create new videos faster, but I will be opening up my schedule to produce more videos in the coming year.
Thank you so much, was really useful. Still, I just have 1 question left. At the begining you have shown the difference of $5.000.000 as Gross Profit (20m - 15m) However, summing up CIP-s in all years (1.000.000 + 1.000.000 + 2.000.000) we get only $ 4.000.000 So, where is the other $1.000.000 ?
+Batyrkhan Baimurzaev The gross profit change because the estimated total costs change too to $ 16 million, and for that reason the actual gross profit is $ 4 million (20m - 16m)
Thank you. Why is the CIP increased/debit when recorded revenue and construction expense? I understand the need to balance the entry, but doesn't that bring the value of CIP (Inventory) to it selling value and therefore overstate its value? If the revenue and the value of the inventory sold have the same value, how is profit recorded and why allow the overstatement of the CIP account?
Hi great video, Can you elaborate the difference between the construction in progress(what is it asset?) and construction Expenses(COS)? So are we saying that all expenses incurred during the project is an asset?
Thank you! This really helped my understanding. In Canada, we've recently adopted the Contract Asset/Liability instead of using the CIP and Billings Account. Do you think you upload an example using this method?
Thank you very much for your video, you're such a good teacher! May I ask what type of technology or gadget you used in order to be able to "write on the screen"?
Really great, clear explanation, thanks! Just wondering, should not it be A/P under the cash as credit? I keep in mind, A/R is debit account. I get confused with this credit and debit stuff 🤔
Thank you for the videos you have posted, they are all very helpful. I am curious as to the increase in cost...would the company not absorb the increase from their revenue, or are we presuming the client would?
Hey there, thanks for the video, i just have one que, (at the end of year 1) from the journal entries, BILLINGS A/C is a Revenue A/C... i mean as Dr. AR Cr. Sales/Revenue and then, In CONSTRUCTION Rev A/C we're again booking a revenue of 4M, no entry cancels out the Billings account at this point. the total rev adds up to BILLINGS A/C + CONSTRUCTION REV A/C help me with my concept please.
The Billings account that you mention is a substitute for revenue. So I am trying to wrap my head around what kind of account is a Billings account? Does it rest on the equity side? Also if you have an example of another term used other than Billings.
Is the CIP in the last journal entry each year (the filler as you referred) the gross profit for each year? So 2017 gross profit is $1,000,000, 2018 Gross profit $1,000,000 and 2019 gross profit $2,000,000? Thanks in advance very helpful video
Can you please explain why the $3 million is divided by the $15 million to get 20%? Other examples show that these totals are added together, then Costs Incurred to Date is divided by the sum of both. Shouldn't it have been $3m/$18m?
i love his videos, but im running into the same problem. im currently in taking int.accounting and was taught to get %completion =cost incurred/(cost incurred+est.cost to complete)
Adrienne Frame Because the $15m is the estimated TOTAL costs already. You will add to the cost incurred if the given amount will be an estimated cost to complete.
I realize there is a flaw in this. As it says % of completion method, at each year end the % completed should be recognized as Revenue and the corresponding Cost of sales. Thus what remains in the CIP will be only that part for which corresponding revenue is not recognized. Thus in year 1, $1mn, and in Yr $2, another million, and in yr 3 the remaining $2 million should be recognized. (The 'upon completion method 'is generally not used for long term projects that cross a financial year and standard and tax laws in many countries do not allow this form) However, most construction accounting is not as so straight forward as this. At the beginning there could be a mobilization or advance fee/revenue, and there could be final retention paid buy customer a year after the project is completed. In such situation, pro rated set of has to be taken in to account, for each stage of progress billing and can be much complicated.!
Hello Edspira, Where do you factor in % of work completion (i.e. % physical progress) in your computation? Or do we assume: the % progress on cost (% POC) i.e. cumulative cost to date / overall cost budget = % of work completion ?
Shouldn't the CIP account have a debit balance of $24,000,000 at the end of the whole project? (3,000,000 + 5,000,000 + 8,000,000 for the construction costs and then 1,000,000 + 1,000,000 + 2,000,000 at the end when recognizing revenue). The credit of $20,000,000 at the end doesn't zero out the CIP account. Can someone please explain?
Contract value doesn’t change, everything extra will be considered as change orders. All the current claims and change orders for the contract are subject to X% hold back. The HB will only be released when substantial completion is achieved. How to account for that?
CIP is basically an inventory account to store the capitalized costs of the project, and Billings is a contra-CIP account, which allow CIP to be presented as a liability at the end of a period in which Billings has a higher credit balance than CIP (i.e., the firm billed the customer for more than the duties they've yet performed)
Thanks very much for this video, have one question though. Is this really an accurate way of recognising project completion and by extension revenue? For example, to build the bridge, the first year could have huge costs such as raw materials, machinery purchase, etc. But the 2nd and 3rd years would be relatively cheaper, since there would be mostly only labour costs. The real question here is, does amount of money spent really equal project completion?? In the scenario given above, perhaps in the initial 6 months we would 80% of the cost, which would imply that 80% of the project is completed, even though actually the bridge construction probably hasn't even started yet... Hope I explained my question clearly :)
What is the "Billing" account? I hear this in accounting for the first time and I have troubles understanding the journal entries with it. Is it an Asset or Liability? And why do I credit it when debiting A/R?
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@@Edspira I see this type of comment so much.. "My professor can't explain as well" etc. I makes me think that education is failing and this is a much better model. TH-cam or something similar where the best explanations get the most view and/or likes.
Some professors don’t want to spend their time and efforts to teach; in stead, they just want to use their teaching platform to do their side businesses.
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Loved the explanation of the percentage of completion method of accounting.
I have been working as an accountant for 10 years but mainly for retail business. I recently got an offer from an engineering project business. To be honest, after working in retail/wholesale for 10 years, I completely forgot what CIP(or WIP) about. This is the best vedio. It saved time for me to look for my CPA books. Now I can remember the concept. THANK YOU!!!
This was the most helpful accounting video I have seen all semester. Thank you SO MUCH for your help!! I have a final tomorrow and this is reassuring me :)
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, YOU ROCK! I wish I had discover your videos, a couple of years ago. It would have saved me TIME, ENERGY and I would have passed classes, as an adult working student with lack of time, concerns and responsibilities, WITHOUT ANY FRUSTRATION! Following along, and jumping back and forth the Intermediate Accounting Textbook, with the assumptions of prior knowledge liberally taken, and concepts jumbled up and squeezed to fit in out of context, in pages and pages of lessons (seemingly to refer at least to all concepts related, but not really explained) would otherwise prove a futile endeavor.
Admittedly my wife was telling me about your videos a month ago, after taking your class and finally passing her Masters level taxation online course, I should have been more diligent in following her advise. Lo and behold, it came to the point of frustration that I had to search the web, and thankfully it led me to your videos.
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another way to find the Construction Rev for 2018 is 50% - 20% = 30% then 0.3 x 20mill same with 100% . 100% - 50% = 50% = 0.5 x 20mill = total rev of 2019
Thanks man great tutorial.
the 20 mins video of yours > my 2 hours class by a CPA tutor
Thank you! My brains are fried. This has really helped. Exam tomorrow!
I'm glad it helped. Good luck on the test!
+Education Unlocked do you have a video explaining how to record the journal entry when the project is not profitable?
+Jon Wallach I don't have a video up for that situation just yet. When there is a loss on the contract you reverse any profit previously recognized and immediately book the anticipated loss.
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thank you for the step by step play , the percentage of completion made easy.
Awesome video. Yet again you've managed to make an otherwise difficult accounting topic to grasp understandable.
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Thank you so much for the clear explanation. I was very confused with the journal entries in the percent of completion method. But you explained it very well!
Wow! This seems like an easy way to calculate revenue and gross profit. The way I was taught involves lots of calculations lol
However, I would like to know how you calculate construction in progress without finding the difference for year 2018. Like you take 50% of $5m and then subtract the previously recognized gross profit?
Edited: Nevermind, I found my answer: Estimated total costs in 2018 is now $16 (instead of $15m), so $20m-16m=$4m
50% of $4m = $2m - 1m (previously recognized gross profit in 2017) = $1 gross profit recognized in 2018
I really appreciate your videos! These are so helpful and you do a great job of breaking down complex concepts to make them easier to understand. Also, your voice sounds a little bit like John C. Reilly. I like to picture Dr. Steven Brule teaching me about accounting.
John C. Reilly and I are both from the south side of Chicago, so that explains the similarity!
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No problem. I have 8 videos on revenue recognition on my website free of charge if you want additional study materials.
edspira.com/lessons/revenue-recognition
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thank you sir for this wonderfull effort really helped me a lot to understand the concept just before a day of my final semester but can you please upload a video in case of we incurred loss on project please
I hope to create such a video this winter break! Unfortunately I haven't been able to create any new videos in the past few weeks and am merely releasing ones I created over the summer. I'm sorry I haven't been able to create new videos faster, but I will be opening up my schedule to produce more videos in the coming year.
Thank you so much, was really useful. Still, I just have 1 question left.
At the begining you have shown the difference of $5.000.000 as Gross Profit (20m - 15m)
However, summing up CIP-s in all years (1.000.000 + 1.000.000 + 2.000.000) we get only $ 4.000.000
So, where is the other $1.000.000 ?
+Batyrkhan Baimurzaev The gross profit change because the estimated total costs change too to $ 16 million, and for that reason the actual gross profit is $ 4 million (20m - 16m)
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Thanks Michael, you made my life easy. by the way CIP is also known as WIP right?
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Thank you. Why is the CIP increased/debit when recorded revenue and construction expense? I understand the need to balance the entry, but doesn't that bring the value of CIP (Inventory) to it selling value and therefore overstate its value? If the revenue and the value of the inventory sold have the same value, how is profit recorded and why allow the overstatement of the CIP account?
Hi great video,
Can you elaborate the difference between the construction in progress(what is it asset?) and construction Expenses(COS)?
So are we saying that all expenses incurred during the project is an asset?
Incredibly well explained. Thanks!
Great video, thanks for posting.
No problem!
Thanks a lot brother, thorough explanation and easy to read charts
Thank you! This really helped my understanding. In Canada, we've recently adopted the Contract Asset/Liability instead of using the CIP and Billings Account. Do you think you upload an example using this method?
I will put that on my production list, although I might not get around to it until this fall. Sorry for the delay!
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Great! Could I have deeper on it please!
Thanks! Do you happen to have a quick video on when the project experiences a loss - borrowing profit from the next year??
Thank you very much for your video, you're such a good teacher! May I ask what type of technology or gadget you used in order to be able to "write on the screen"?
Really great, clear explanation, thanks! Just wondering, should not it be A/P under the cash as credit? I keep in mind, A/R is debit account. I get confused with this credit and debit stuff 🤔
Thank you for the videos you have posted, they are all very helpful. I am curious as to the increase in cost...would the company not absorb the increase from their revenue, or are we presuming the client would?
Thanks a ton! You are very clear, and the example is fantastic. Great video!
i read "billings" as "billingo" and wondered what is it the whole time until it was mentioned 😂
Hey there, thanks for the video, i just have one que, (at the end of year 1)
from the journal entries, BILLINGS A/C is a Revenue A/C... i mean as Dr. AR Cr. Sales/Revenue
and then, In CONSTRUCTION Rev A/C we're again booking a revenue of 4M, no entry cancels out the Billings account at this point. the total rev adds up to BILLINGS A/C + CONSTRUCTION REV A/C
help me with my concept please.
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The Billings account that you mention is a substitute for revenue. So I am trying to wrap my head around what kind of account is a Billings account? Does it rest on the equity side? Also if you have an example of another term used other than Billings.
Is the CIP in the last journal entry each year (the filler as you referred) the gross profit for each year? So 2017 gross profit is $1,000,000, 2018 Gross profit $1,000,000 and 2019 gross profit $2,000,000?
Thanks in advance very helpful video
Thank you, helped me understand this topic .
Thank you for your video I was just dying due to construction contract 😂
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Can you please explain why the $3 million is divided by the $15 million to get 20%? Other examples show that these totals are added together, then Costs Incurred to Date is divided by the sum of both. Shouldn't it have been $3m/$18m?
i love his videos, but im running into the same problem. im currently in taking int.accounting and was taught to get %completion =cost incurred/(cost incurred+est.cost to complete)
Adrienne Frame Because the $15m is the estimated TOTAL costs already. You will add to the cost incurred if the given amount will be an estimated cost to complete.
@@claudiaigarcia925 I think they meant cost incurrred (3mln)+estimated cost to complete (12mln, that is 15mln - 3mln already incurred)
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I realize there is a flaw in this. As it says % of completion method, at each year end the % completed should be recognized as Revenue and the corresponding Cost of sales. Thus what remains in the CIP will be only that part for which corresponding revenue is not recognized. Thus in year 1, $1mn, and in Yr $2, another million, and in yr 3 the remaining $2 million should be recognized. (The 'upon completion method 'is generally not used for long term projects that cross a financial year and standard and tax laws in many countries do not allow this form)
However, most construction accounting is not as so straight forward as this. At the beginning there could be a mobilization or advance fee/revenue, and there could be final retention paid buy customer a year after the project is completed. In such situation, pro rated set of has to be taken in to account, for each stage of progress billing and can be much complicated.!
Thank you very mutch for this video
Helpful video...thank you very much
Thank you for this great video!
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Hello Edspira,
Where do you factor in % of work completion (i.e. % physical progress) in your computation?
Or do we assume:
the % progress on cost (% POC) i.e. cumulative cost to date / overall cost budget
= % of work completion ?
Shouldn't the CIP account have a debit balance of $24,000,000 at the end of the whole project? (3,000,000 + 5,000,000 + 8,000,000 for the construction costs and then 1,000,000 + 1,000,000 + 2,000,000 at the end when recognizing revenue). The credit of $20,000,000 at the end doesn't zero out the CIP account. Can someone please explain?
Gr8 explanation 👍🏼
Contract value doesn’t change, everything extra will be considered as change orders. All the current claims and change orders for the contract are subject to X% hold back. The HB will only be released when substantial completion is achieved. How to account for that?
thank you sir that was helpful
does this still applicable to IFRS 15 Revenue recognition?
What type of accounts are the Billings and CIP. Are they just some sort of clearing account?
CIP is basically an inventory account to store the capitalized costs of the project, and Billings is a contra-CIP account, which allow CIP to be presented as a liability at the end of a period in which Billings has a higher credit balance than CIP (i.e., the firm billed the customer for more than the duties they've yet performed)
Thanks very much for this video, have one question though. Is this really an accurate way of recognising project completion and by extension revenue? For example, to build the bridge, the first year could have huge costs such as raw materials, machinery purchase, etc. But the 2nd and 3rd years would be relatively cheaper, since there would be mostly only labour costs.
The real question here is, does amount of money spent really equal project completion?? In the scenario given above, perhaps in the initial 6 months we would 80% of the cost, which would imply that 80% of the project is completed, even though actually the bridge construction probably hasn't even started yet...
Hope I explained my question clearly :)
On what basis is the billing done? Does some percentage formula is used?
Can I amend my client's business return for prior years to reflect this method as the previous accountant filed a straight cash = revenue method?
It really helps!! Thanks !!!
+tang summer It's my pleasure. Good luck with your class!
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What is billing account? Asset? Liabilities?
What is the "Billing" account? I hear this in accounting for the first time and I have troubles understanding the journal entries with it. Is it an Asset or Liability? And why do I credit it when debiting A/R?
Thanks
Very clear ! Thanks !
Thank you!