Teaching note for product W27289.

In August 2021, the founders of We are Marlow Corporation (Marlow) were considering the company’s future. Marlow was a direct-to-consumer (D2C), subscription-based business that sold lubricated tampon kits. The company was about to receive full approval from Health Canada to sell its products and the founders needed to shift their focus to a marketing strategy for their upcoming launch. They needed to decide on their target market and pricing scheme .....more

The owner of a tennis ball manufacturer was reviewing the company's financial performance for its third fiscal year. The bookkeeper had already recorded the fiscal 2020 cash transactions, but may have done so incorrectly. The owner recorded the opening balances, cash receipts, and cash disbursements to calculate the unadjusted trial balances for fiscal 2020. She started with the bookkeeper’s unadjusted trial balances and planned to use the balance .....more

Teaching note for product W28158.

Teaching note for product W26411.

At month’s end in May 2021, the owner of Lakeshore Tea Company Inc. (Lakeshore) located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, was reviewing her company’s merchandising operations for the preceding month. Lakeshore operated as an herbal tea processor and supplier, importing herbs and tea leaves from a variety of sources across the globe. Over its first two years of operations Lakeshore had experienced significant growth and had begun supplying a variety .....more

On October 31, 2021, Thistle Links Inc. (Thistle), a sports management company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, had just finished its fiscal year 2021. During the year, the company had experienced a wide variety of occurrences related to its equity financing activities. Starting with the shareholders’ equity section of the previous year’s statement of financial position, Thistle’s accountant is tasked with recording all transactions that occurred .....more

Teaching note for product W26409.

On June 9, 2021, the owner and director of S.I.T. Car Rental, which was located in Trinidad and Tobago, was considering whether he should upgrade his fleet of cars. The COVID-19 pandemic had negatively affected his sales in 2020 and 2021, although the owner was hopeful that he could increase demand by the end of 2021, once the need for pandemic-related lockdowns had ended. He had recently retired one of his older cars and so needed to decide whether .....more

Teaching note for product W26407.