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Chapter 10: Q1Q (page 530)
Question: What are the major characteristics of plant assets?
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Navajo Corporation traded a used truck (cost \(20,000, accumulated depreciation \)18,000) for a small computer with a fair value of \(3,300. Navajo also paid \)500 in the transaction. Prepare the journal entry to record the exchange. (The exchange has commercial substance.)
Tones Company purchased a warehouse in a downtown district where land values are rapidly increasing. Gerald Carter, controller, and Wilma Ankara, financial vice president, are trying to allocate the cost of the purchase between the land and the building. Noting that depreciation can be taken only on the building, Carter favors placing a very high proportion of the cost on the warehouse itself, thus reducing taxable income and income taxes. Ankara, his supervisor, argues that the allocation should recognize the increasing value of the land, regardless of the depreciation potential of the warehouse. Besides, she says, net income is negatively impacted by additional depreciation and will cause the company鈥檚 stock price to go down.
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Answer the following questions.
Question: Discuss the basic accounting problem that arises in handling each of the following situations. (a) Assets purchased by issuance of common stock. (b) Acquisition of plant assets by gift or donation. (c) Purchase of a plant asset subject to a cash discount. (d) Assets purchased on a long-term credit basis. (e) A group of assets acquired for a lump sum. (f) An asset traded in or exchanged for another asset.
(Purchase of Computer with Zero-Interest-Bearing Debt) Cardinals Corporation purchased a computer on December 31, 2016, for \(105,000, paying \)30,000 down and agreeing to pay the balance in five equal installments of $15,000 payable each December 31 beginning in 2017. An assumed interest rate of 10% is implicit in the purchase price.
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(Round to two decimal places.)
Question: (Nonmonetary Exchanges) During the current year, Marshall Construction trades an old crane with a book value of \(90,000 (original cost \)140,000 less accumulated depreciation of \(50,000) for a new crane from Brigham Manufacturing Co. The new crane cost Brigham \)165,000 to manufacture and is classified as inventory. The following information is also available.
Marshall Const. | Brigham Mfg. Co. | |
Fair value of old crane | \( 82,000 | |
Fair value of new crane | \)200,000 | |
Cash paid | 118,000 | |
Cash received | 118,000 |
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