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Alvarado Company sells a machine for $7,400 with a 12-month warranty agreement that requires the company to replace all defective parts and to provide the repair labor at no cost to the customers. With sales being made evenly throughout the year, the company sells 600 machines in 2020 (warranty expense is incurred half in 2020 and half in 2021). As a result of product testing, the company estimates that the warranty cost is $390 per machine ($170 parts and $220 labor). Use "Inventory" account to record the warranty expense. Assuming that actual warranty costs are incurred exactly as estimated, what journal entries would be made relative to the following facts? (a) Sale of machinery and warranty expense incurred. (b) Warranty accrual. (c) Warranty costs incurred in. (d) What amount, if any, is disclosed in the balance sheet as a liability for future warranty costs

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Answer:

Cash 7,400 debit

   Sales revenue    7,400 credit

--to record the sale of the machine--

warranty expense 390 debit

     warranty liability     390 credit

----entries made to record teheh accrued warranty----

warranty liability   390 debit

          inventory              390 credit

--to record the parts incurred for the warranty--

(d) zero as we assume the incurrent cost are equal to expected

Explanation:

(a) we record the sale as usual

(b) we record a liability as we don't know at which time the warranty will be executed but; we expected to occur in the future.

(c) When the customer uses the warrany we decrease the liability and credit the way we settle the warrant.

This could be inventory, cash or labor cost or.

We record inventory as we request to do so.