Winston Industries and Ewing Inc. enter into an agreement that requires Ewing Inc. to build three diesel-electric engines to Winston’s specifications. Upon completion of the engines, Winston has agreed to lease them for a period of 10 years and to assume all costs and risks of ownership. The lease is noncancelable, becomes effective on January 1, 2017, and requires annual rental payments of \(413,971 each January 1, starting January 1, 2017.

Winston’s incremental borrowing rate is 10%. The implicit interest rate used by Ewing Inc. and known to Winston is 8%. The total cost of building the three engines is \)2,600,000. The economic life of the engines is estimated to be 10 years, with residual value set at zero. Winston depreciates similar equipment on a straight-line basis. At the end of the lease, Winston assumes title to the engines. Collectibility of the lease payments is reasonably certain; no uncertainties exist relative to unreimbursable lessor costs.

Instructions

(e) Prepare the journal entries for both the lessee and lessor to record interest expense (revenue) at December 31, 2017. (Prepare a lease amortization schedule for 2 years.)

Short Answer

Expert verified

The total amount of interest expense and interest payable is $206,882.

Step by step solution

01

Meaning of Leased asset amortization

The amortization of a leased asset is determined by the asset's historical cost, expected economic life, residual value, and the amortization method. Most finance leases are amortized with continuous payments over the term of the lease and are customized to meet the specific needs of the lessee.

02

Preparing Journal Entries for Lessee

Date

Particular

Debit ($)

Credit ($)

Dec. 31, 2017

Interest Expense

206,882

Interest Payable

206,882

03

Preparing Journal Entries for Lessor

Date

Particular

Debit ($)

Credit ($)

Dec. 31, 2017

Interest Receivable

206,882

Interest Revenue

206,882

04

Preparing lease amortization

WINSTON INDUSTRIES

Lease Amortization Schedule


Date

Annual lease

Receipt/payments

Interest on Receivable/liability at 85

Reduction in receivable/

liability

Lease Receivable/

Liability

1/1/17

$3,000,000

1/1/17

$413,971

$ 0

$413,971

2,586,029

1/1/18

413,917

206,882

207,089

2,378,940

1/1/19

413,917

190,656

223,656

2,155,284

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(Operating Lease vs. Capital Lease) You are auditing the December 31, 2017, financial statements of Hockney, Inc., manufacturer of novelties and party favors. During your inspection of the company garage, you discovered that a used automobile not listed in the equipment subsidiary ledger is parked there. You ask Stacy Reeder, plant manager, about the vehicle, and she tells you that the company did not list the automobile because the company was only leasing it. The lease agreement was entered into on January 1, 2017, with Crown New and Used Cars.

You decide to review the lease agreement to ensure that the lease should be afforded operating lease treatment, and you discover the following lease terms.

  1. Noncancelable term of 4 years.
  2. 2. Rental of \(3,240 per year (at the end of each year). (The present value at 8% per year is \)10,731.)
  3. 3. Estimated residual value after 4 years is \(1,100. (The present value at 8% per year is \)809.) Hockney guarantees the residual value of $1,100.
  4. 4. Estimated economic life of the automobile is 5 years.
  5. 5. Hockney’s incremental borrowing rate is 8% per year.

Instructions

You are a senior auditor writing a memo to your supervisor, the audit partner in charge of this audit, to discuss the above situation. Be sure to include (a) why you inspected the lease agreement, (b) what you determined about the lease, and (c) how you advised your client to account for this lease. Explain every journal entry that you believe is necessary to record this lease properly on the client’s books. (It is also necessary to include the fact that you communicated this information to your client.)

(Lessee Entries, Capital Lease with Monthly Payments) Shapiro Inc. was incorporated in 2016 to operate as a computer software service firm with an accounting fiscal year ending August 31. Shapiro’s primary product is a sophisticated online inventory-control system; its customers pay a fixed fee plus a usage charge for using the system.

Shapiro has leased a large, Alpha-3 computer system from the manufacturer. The lease calls for a monthly rental of \(40,000 for the 144 months (12 years) of the lease term. The estimated useful life of the computer is 15 years.

Each scheduled monthly rental payment includes \)3,000 for full-service maintenance on the computer to be performed by the manufacturer. All rentals are payable on the first day of the month beginning with August 1, 2017, the date the computer was installed and the lease agreement was signed. The lease is noncancelable for its 12-year term, and it is secured only by the manufacturer’s chattel lien on the Alpha-3 system.

This lease is to be accounted for as a capital lease by Shapiro, and it will be depreciated by the straight-line method with no expected salvage value. Borrowed funds for this type of transaction would cost Shapiro 12% per year (1% per month). Following is a schedule of the present value of \(1 for selected periods discounted at 1% per period when payments are made at the beginning of each period.

Periods Present (months)

Present Value of \)1 per Period Discounted at 1% per Period

1

1.000

2

1.990

3

2.970

143

76.658

144

76.899

Instructions

Prepare all entries Shapiro should have made in its accounting records during August 2017 relating to this lease. Give full explanations and show supporting computations for each entry. Remember, August 31, 2017, is the end of Shapiro’s fiscal accounting period and it will be preparing financial statements on that date. Do not prepare closing entries.

Indiana Jones Corporation enters into a 6-year lease of equipment on January 1, 2017, which requires 6 annual payments of \(40,000 each, beginning January 1, 2017. In addition, Indiana Jones guarantees the lessor a residual value of \)20,000 at lease-end. The equipment has a useful life of 6 years. Prepare Indiana Jones’ January 1, 2017, journal entries assuming an interest rate of 10%.

Metheny Corporation’s lease arrangements qualify as sales-type leases at the time of entering into the transactions. How should the corporation recognize revenues and costs in these situations?

Jennifer Brent Corporation owns equipment that cost \(80,000 and has a useful life of 8 years with no salvage value. On January 1, 2017, Jennifer Brent leases the equipment to Donna Havaci Inc. for 1 year with one rental payment of \)15,000 on January 1. Prepare Jennifer Brent Corporation’s 2017 journal entries.

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