Accounting for Terriorist Attacks

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revenue; doing so would violate the matching principle. The best way to do this is to allocate the depreciation for the equipment to later periods when the equipment will be up and running. For instance, if we had a $1000 expense each month for equipment depreciation, for the 3 months and 2 weeks the machines will be down, we would readjust the $3500 to the remaining time of our lease. If there were 10 months on the lease after that time, we could add $350 to each of the remaining months.
The situation that Tommy finds himself in is unfortunate, but yet the effects could have been reduced if he had taken a few precautions, in case of an unexpected event, occurred. The first precaution that Tommy could have taken was to produce T-shirts the whole year, not to just increase production before spring break occurs. If he had lots of extra shirts in stock for spring breakers, the week that he will not be able to produce t-shirt because of the crash would not economically affect his ...

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is extra expense insurance. Extra expense insurance reimburses you for some of the money you spend to recover from the accident which helps you from having to close down the business during the time of recovery (Insurance Information Institute, paragraphs 1-6).
For the September 11 attacks, the EITF classified most of the damage not as an extraordinary event but rather to be accounted for under continuing operations. They reached this decision because they felt that terrorist attacks did not fall under the category of extraordinary events because they had happened in previous years (FASB, Pg. 5, para. 2). For this particular event, however; the accounting impact on Tommy's ...

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