Phil o'keefe is opening a small sports store in his town. at the advice of a friend who is a bookkeeper, he keeps the receipts of everything he purchases for the business in the bottom drawer of his desk, along with all other business expenses, such as his retail license, his rent expense, and insurance expense. you suggest that
a. phil continues with this procedure, but only until the store opens, at which time he will need an additional drawer for his sales transactions.
b. phil invests some time in exploring an accounting system that will make it easier to classify and summarize accounting information.
c. phil continues with this procedure because there is very little difference between one expense and another.
d. phil stops wasting valuable time saving the receipts because accountants only record sales transactions

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u. s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.