Allocation of discount
Discount recognition: Customer is said to have received volume discount for purchasing a bundle of items, if sum of the stand-alone selling prices of items in the contract exceeds the promised consideration in a contract.
Treatment:
1. General treatment of discount: The accountant shall allocate the discount proportionately to all performance obligations in the contract. under the logic that transaction price listed in the contract is also allocated to each performance obligation, on the basis of the relative stand-alone selling prices of the underlying distinct item.
2. Alternate treatment: entire discount shall be allocated to select identified performance obligations in the contract (and not to all of the performance obligations) if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) There is regular sale of each distinct items mentioned in the contract, individually or in bundles on a stand-alone basis
(b) There is regular sale of some of those distinct items, at a discount to the stand-alone selling prices of the respective item
(c) discount attributable to each item bundle (as per the b above)is substantially the same as the discount in the contract and
analysis of items in each bundle provides evidence/hint as to which performance obligation the entire discount belongs.
In these cases the entity shall allocate the discount before using the residual approach to estimate the stand-alone selling price of the item
Note: *Item in this context refers to Goods/service