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"Manufactured Homes" Case

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16-02-2013 Study year 2012-2013
Prof. Dr. Brendan O’Dwyer Semester 2, Blok 1
Financial Statement Analysis Anahita Farokhi 6041949

Case 3: “Manufactured Homes” (MANH)
Question 1
Manufactured Homes is engaged principally in the retail sale of new and used manufactured single-family homes and targets individuals in the low income category. Manufactured Homes focuses on the lower end of the market, according to the company this has two advantages: 1. Since its customers were seeking to fulfil an essential housing need, its customers were less affected by changes in general economic conditions. 2. Repossession rates were significantly lower than those of the industry, since its customers were likely to work very hard …show more content…

It says the following: 1. that Manufactured Homes recognizes sales when payment is received or, in the case of credit sales, when a down payment (generally 10% of the sales price) is received and the company and the customer enter into an instalment contract. 2. the majority of instalment contracts is sold with recourse to unrelated financial institutions at an agreed upon rate which is below the contractual interest rate of the instalment contract 3. at the time of sale, Manufactured Homes receives immediately payment for the stated principal amount of the instalment contract and a portion of the finance participation resulting from the interest rate differential 4. the remainder of the interest rate differential is retained by the financial institution as security against credit losses and is paid to Manufactured Homes in proportion to customer payments received by the financial institution 5. Manufactured Homes accounts for these transactions as sales in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 77, “Reporting by Transferors for Transfers of Receivables with Recourse”, and recognizes finance participation income equal to the difference between the contractual interest rates of the instalment contracts and the agreed upon rates to the financial institutions; the portion retained by the financial institutions is discounted for estimated time of collection and carried at its

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