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World War I didn't just pop up out of nowhere. It was the result of years of tension in Europe finally bubbling over.

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principles of finance. a la shmoop. simplified Lemonade Stand. alright people

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time to simplify simplify and yet Thoreau still has nothing on us. all [old man in the woods]

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right well let's go back to our little lemonade stand and drill into some of

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the more difficult elements of the income statement. the income statement

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right here this thing read through it and you're skimming reading are you

00:22

paying attention good. okay so let's think about when our big question here

00:26

is easy. when are revenues revenues? all right. that's also from Jeopardy. well

00:31

when a customer stands at your stand and pays you the dollar for their lemonade

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and they drink it they say boy howdy that was good. and they walk away well

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that constitutes a clean sale. we're gonna assume that thirty minutes later [kid sells lemonade]

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they aren't throwing up from food poisoning and then coming back to sue

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you. and even if they did while the cost of defending yourself wouldn't be a

00:50

revenue item on the income statement, it would be in a new category you just

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realized you need legal and insurance or something like that.

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so clean sale makes for clean revenues. well when are they dirty?

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well revenues are dirty when a sale may or may not happen. that is there isn't

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certainty of revenues, but when is there really certainty? well you could posit

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that when cash goes into your Bank of America coffers, that's a sale. but what

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if there's a three-month money-back guarantee attached to it? don't you have

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to reserve some amount of money for the number of people who will exercise their

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right to that money-back guarantee? how do you do that ?well in the beginning

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you really have no history so you essentially make all revenues deferred.

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and yep that's a new category. and as soon as the 90 days are up then you can [deferred revenue defined]

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call them revenues. but over time if you have one percent of your revenues pretty

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steadily being redeemed for the money-back guarantee, well then you can

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start to reserve way less than the hundred percent you started with. and

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it's rational that in a given month if you took in a million dollars that you

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reserve and at ten thousand dollars for that kind of guarantee. well why would

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you have started with a hundred percent reserves? one word yeah GAAP we whispered.

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it art we'll say it loud. loud GAAP. and not the Levi's store people. the religion

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of GAAP tells you that you must do the most rationally conservative thing that

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you can do when accounting for money. and since you were just starting a business

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you had no idea if the product was going end up being a defective clunker or [cash counted on many screens]

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something really good, where 1% or less was ever redeemed. okay so that's

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deferred revenues. and what about the credit card issue here? well we noted

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earlier that credit card companies take a fair chunk out of your purchases. in

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this made-up example of nothingness, let's say the credit card companies take

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3 percent of sales. well on a million dollars, you pay them 30 grand. and you

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keep $970,000. would you book revenues as a million dollars or is

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970,000? answer 1 million. why ?well this isn't the most conservative so why

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wouldn't you claim revenues at just 970,000 instead of goosing them up to be

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a million. because credit cards are a very common way of doing business. in

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theory everyone in your industry uses them and it's fair to assume that a very

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large part of say a bicycle shops revenues will be paid via credit card. [graphic showing many pay with credit card]

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when standard practice dictates a certain set of costs that are common to

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an industry you adopt the most common methods of accounting in that industry.

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all right now here's another twist. what if revenues are suspect or iffy or

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uncertain of being paid. imagine your rep providing lemonade to the Super bowl. well

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if there's a risk that you won't in fact be paid for your million cups of

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lemonade you know from those deadbeats at the NFL. should you still book the

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million dollars promised you as revenues? no of course not. you do still suffer the

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expenses of having had to produce and deliver the lemonade however and you are

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still liable if people get sick from it even if you never get paid by the NFL [lemonade in a glass]

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people. well maybe think about that when you negotiate your contract, ie that they

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pay you X percent up front so that if they renege on the deal you've at least

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collected enough cash upfront to cover your cups and a little bit more. well the

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hard part here is figuring out what to deduct for risk of non-payment. is the

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NFL going bankrupt anytime soon? well not bloody likely. do they have a history of

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not paying their vendor bills? no will they claim non performance on your part

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ie that you didn't actually deliver the million cups of lemonade? also not likely.

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it had a lot of that on Camera now. well do they have a history of

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sub charging you, that is claiming that the cups you brought left a mess on the

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floor and now they had to clean up the sticky mess and deal with the ants, so [trash on the ground]

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instead of paying you the million bucks you thought they would now they're gonna

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deduct 50 grand for cleanup and just pay you 950 K .all right well all these

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factors play into how you calculate revenues. no hard and fast numbers are

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embedded here you just need to demonstrate that you thought about this

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rationally. why would someone want to state revenues as being really low and

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the regulator is not be okay with that? because you're being super conservative

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here right? well revenues being stated as overly conservatively low have a big

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effect on one particular line item on the income statement all else being held

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equal. want to guess which one rhymes with sh max's. yeah if you had

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expenses of 400 grand in revenues a million dollars long you'd have pre-tax

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profits of 600 grand and pay your 30 percent tax or whatever the number is in [equation]

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your state, and country and so on of $180,000 thirty percent on a 600 yeah

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that's how we got there, to net 420 grand in earnings. but if you somehow came up

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with a rental guarantee on the lemonade with the notion being that then well

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nobody really buys lemonade they rent it, right? and then you were somehow able to

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defer those revenues to be recognized some years later well then maybe you can

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show only 500 grand of revenues instead of that million this year. you still have

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the four hundred thousand bucks in expenses, nothing else changed here ,not

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even sales commissions to your reps, so you'd show just a hundred grand in

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profits, pay your 30 percent tax and you'll have paid 30 grand in taxes

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instead of a hundred 80 grand you paid before .key idea here you still collected [equation]

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the full million dollars in revenues it's just sitting in your bank account.

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you're just not recognizing it yet as clean revenues .yes it's accounting

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chicanery book cooking and other falsities when

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you go to these fake extents to be conservative. and if you do find yourself

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being encouraged by your CEO or whoever to do your accounting like this either

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consult glassdoor.com fast or think about whether or not your body looks

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good doing stripes. yeah they're slimming. [boy behind bars in black and white stripes]

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