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In a February 19, 2004, press release, the Securities and Exchange Commission described a number of fraudulent transactions that Enron executives concocted in an effort to meet the company’s financial targets. One particularly well-known scheme is called the “Nigerian barge” transaction, which took place in the fourth quarter of 1999. According to court documents, Enron arranged to sell three electricity-generating power barges moored off the coast of Nigeria. The “buyer” was the investment banking firm of Merrill Lynch. Although Enron reported this transaction as a sale in its income statement, it turns out this was no ordinary sale. Merrill Lynch didn’t really want the barges and had only agreed to buy them because Enron guaranteed, in a secret side deal, that it would arrange for the barges to be bought back from Merrill Lynch within six months of the initial transaction. In addition, Enron promised to pay Merrill Lynch a hefty fee for doing the deal. In an interview on National Public Radio on August 17, 2002, Michigan Senator Carl Levin declared, “(T)he case of the Nigerian barge transaction was, by any definition, a loan.”

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  1. Discuss whether the Nigerian barge transaction should have been considered a loan rather than a sale. As part of your discussion, consider the following questions. Doesn’t the Merrill Lynch payment to Enron at the time of the initial transaction automatically make it a sale, not a loan? What aspects of the transaction are similar to a loan? Which aspects suggest that the four criteria for revenue recognition (summarized near the end of Chapter 3) were not fulfilled?

  2. The income statement effect of recording the transaction as a sale rather than a loan is fairly clear: Enron was able to boost its revenues and net income. What is somewhat less obvious, but nearly as important, are the effects on the statement of cash flows. Describe how recording the transaction as a sale rather than as a loan would change the statement of cash flows.

  3. How would the two different statements of cash flows (described in your response to requirement 2) affect financial statement users?

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Based on the following information, compute cash flows from financing activities.

Purchase of short-term investments$500Dividends paid 900Interest paid300Additional short-term borrowing from bank950\begin{array} {lrrrrr} \text{Purchase of short-term investments}& \hspace{10pt}\text{\$\hspace{10pt}500}&\\ \text{Dividends paid }& \hspace{10pt}\text{900}&\\ \text{Interest paid}& \text{300}&\\ \text{Additional short-term borrowing from bank}& \hspace{10pt}\text{950}&\\ \end{array}

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