(Communication) Sunshine Sugar Grows Sugar Cane in Florida, California, and Hawaii

question 225

Essay

(Communication)
Sunshine Sugar grows sugar cane in Florida, California, and Hawaii. Its investment in land to grow sugar exceeds $2 million. Currently, land whose original cost was more than $300,000 in Florida is threatened by plans to flood the Everglades to reclaim the wetlands. Sunshine plans to fight vigorously to keep its land in production, particularly because most of the rest of its land is in California, which is threatened by water shortages. The land in Florida is also significantly more productive than that in California, and the wages paid to workers to process the sugar cane are substantially less. Current plans include litigation to prevent government seizure of the land, an extensive public education campaign, and intense lobbying efforts.
Required:
Sunshine has determined that a footnote disclosure should be made in the financial statements to alert the investors of the threat to the land. Carefully consider how much of the above information is appropriate for inclusion in the footnote. Write the footnote.