Question

The Better Building Company has a contract to build a building for $100 million. The estimate of the cost of the project is $75 million. In the first year of the project, BB had costs of $30 million. The Better Building Company’s reported profit for the first year of the contract, using the percentage-of-completion method, is:

Answer 1

$10 million

Step-by-step explanation:

Calculation for the reported profit for the first year of the contract

Using this formula

Reported profit=(BB Costs/Project cost estimate)×(Building contract-Project cost estimate)

Let plug in the formula

Reported profit = ($30 million / $75 million)×($100 million – $75 million)

Reported profit=0.4 million ×25 million

Reported profit= $10 million

Therefore the reported profit for the first year of the contract will be $10 million