A Company Sells Its Product Subject to a Warranty That

question 20

Essay

A company sells its product subject to a warranty that covers the cost of parts for repairs during the six months after the date of sale. Warranty costs are estimated to be 6% of sales. During the month of June, the company performed warranty work and used $12,000 of parts to perform the warranty work. Sales for June were $450,000.
1. Record the warranty expense for the month of June.
2. Record the costs of the warranty work completed in June.
3. If the Estimated Warranty Liability account had a credit balance of $10,000 on May 31, what is the account balance at June 30?

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A span of values, generated from the statistics of a sample, that is likely to comprise the value of an undefined population parameter.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test that is used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Pooled Standard Error

A method to estimate the standard error across two or more samples by combining the individual standard deviations into a single measure, often used in t-tests.