Acustomer got serious food poisoning from tasty feast restaurant on march 30, 20x2, necessitating a trip to the emergency room.
on april 5, 20x2, the customer initiated a lawsuit. at december 31, 20x2, tasty feast estimated its probable loss to be $50,000.
in january, 20x3, before issuance of tasty feast’s financial statements, a judge ruled in favor of the customer and awarded the customer $80,000 in damages.

must the company recognize the effects of this ruling in its 20x2 financial statements? explain.

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?