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SolvGen Case
Colleen Mansfield
Corporate Financial Reporting
September 19, 2013
Background
SolvGen Inc. is a pharmaceutical development company that Direct Drugs, Inc. plans to acquire.
SolvGen has entered into two contracts in the last year and Direct Drugs must now decide how to
recognize the revenue from those contracts.
Deliverables
There is only one deliverable in the contracts between SolvGen and Careway. Without the contract
to license and distribute the proprietary instruments, the research and development agreement is
worth nothing to Careway because they are not entitled to the intellectual rights or findings.
Revenue Recognition
The two payments made in advance are simply up-front payments from Careway to SolvGen, not
payments for deliverables. The up-front payments should be deferred until the commercial launch of
the product, not recognized immediately. This is because prior to the commercial launch, Careway
receives absolutely no benefit from their agreements with SolvGen. Beginning with the commercial
launch, Careway can recognize benefits under the agreements, enabling SolvGen to recognize
revenue for deliverables being transferred to Careway. As of March 31, 2006, the three milestone
payments (for exclusive negotiation, contract signing, and first instrument system launch) should be
recognized over the time remaining in the contract. This is best done on a percentage basis, as long
as the company is able to reliably estimate sales of the instrument systems.
International Financial Reporting Standards
Under the rules of IFRS, there would be no change in how the milestone payments are received by
SolvGen. This is partially due to the way the milestone payments are recognized by percentage
completion over time and partially due to the fact that the two contracts were begun at the same
time with the knowledge that the two would best work together.