Bramble Corp. enters into a contract with a customer to build an apartment building for $930,000. The customer hopes to rent apartments at the beginning of the school year and offers a performance bonus of $143,000 to be paid if the building is ready for rental beginning August 1, 2020. The bonus is reduced by $47,667 each week that completion is delayed. Bramble commonly includes these completion bonuses in its contracts and, based on prior experience, estimates the following completion outcomes: Completed by   Probability August 1, 2020   70 % August 8, 2020   20   August 15, 2020   5   After August 15, 2020   5       Determine the transaction price for this contract, assuming Bramble is only able to estimate whether the building can be completed by August 1, 2020, or not. (Bramble estimates that there is a 70% chance that the building will be completed by August 1, 2020.) Transaction price   $                          Determine the transaction price for this contract, assuming Bramble has limited information with which to develop a reliable estimate of completion by the August 1, 2020 deadline. Transaction price   $

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Bramble Corp. enters into a contract with a customer to build an apartment building for $930,000. The customer hopes to rent apartments at the beginning of the school year and offers a performance bonus of $143,000 to be paid if the building is ready for rental beginning August 1, 2020. The bonus is reduced by $47,667 each week that completion is delayed. Bramble commonly includes these completion bonuses in its contracts and, based on prior experience, estimates the following completion outcomes:

Completed by   Probability
August 1, 2020   70 %
August 8, 2020   20  
August 15, 2020   5  
After August 15, 2020   5  
 
 
Determine the transaction price for this contract, assuming Bramble is only able to estimate whether the building can be completed by August 1, 2020, or not. (Bramble estimates that there is a 70% chance that the building will be completed by August 1, 2020.)

Transaction price  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Determine the transaction price for this contract, assuming Bramble has limited information with which to develop a reliable estimate of completion by the August 1, 2020 deadline.

Transaction price  
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