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Chapter 10: Q17E (page 538)

(Nonmonetary Exchange) Busytown Corporation, which manufactures shoes, hired a recent college graduate to work in its accounting department. On the first day of work, the accountant was assigned to total a batch of invoices with the use of an adding machine. Before long, the accountant, who had never before seen such a machine, managed to break the machine. Busytown Corporation gave the machine plus \(340 to Dick Tracy Business Machine Company (dealer) in exchange for a new machine. Assume the following information about the machines.

Busytown Corp.

(Old Machine)

Dick Tracy Co.

(New Machine)

Machine cost

\)290

$270

Accumulated depreciation

140

0

Fair Value

85

425

Instructions

For each company, prepare the necessary journal entry to record the exchange. (The exchange has commercial substance.)

Short Answer

Expert verified
  1. In Busytown Corporation, Accumulated depreciation is $140
  2. In Dick Tracy Company, sales revenue is $425

Step by step solution

01

Meaning of Journal

Journal refers to recording business transactions in the manner in which they occurred.

02

Preparing journal entries for Busytown Corp.

Date

Particular

Debit ($)

Credit ($)

Machinery

425

Accumulated Depreciation-Machinery

140

Loss on Disposal of Machinery

65

Machinery

290

Cash

340

Working notes:

Computation of loss

Book value of old machine($290-$140)

$150

Less: Fair value of old machine

85

Loss on disposal of machinery

$ 65

03

Preparing journal entries for Dick Tracy Co.

Date

Particular

Debit ($)

Credit ($)

Cash

340

Inventory

85

Cost of Goods Sold

270

Sales Revenue

425

Inventory

270

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Question: What interest rates should be used in determining the amount of interest to be capitalized? How should the amount of interest to be capitalized be determined?

Garcia Corporation purchased a truck by issuing an $80,000, 4-year, zero-interest-bearing note to Equinox Inc. The market rate of interest for obligations of this nature is 10%. Prepare the journal entry to record the purchase of this truck.

(Capitalization of Interest) On December 31, 2016, Main Inc. borrowed \(3,000,000 at 12% payable annually to finance the construction of a new building. In 2017, the company made the following expenditures related to this building: March 1, \)360,000; June 1, \(600,000; July 1, \)1,500,000; December 1, \(1,500,000. The building was completed in February 2018. Additional information is provided as follows.

1. Other debt outstanding

10-year, 13% bond, December 31, 2010, interest payable annually \)4,000,000

6-year, 10% note, dated December 31, 2014, interest payable

annually \(1,600,000

2. March 1, 2017, expenditure included land costs of \)150,000

3. Interest revenue earned in 2017 $49,000

Instructions

(a) Determine the amount of interest to be capitalized in 2017 in relation to the construction of the building.

(b) Prepare the journal entry to record the capitalization of interest and the recognition of interest expense at December 31, 2017.

Question: (Classification of Costs and Interest Capitalization) On January 1, 2017, Blair Corporation purchased for \(500,000 a tract of land (site number 101) with a building. Blair paid a real estate broker’s commission of \)36,000, legal fees of \(6,000, and title guarantee insurance of \)18,000. The closing statement indicated that the land value was \(500,000 and the building value was \)100,000. Shortly after acquisition, the building was razed at a cost of \(54,000.

Blair entered into a \)3,000,000 fixed-price contract with Slatkin Builders, Inc. on March 1, 2017, for the construction of an office building on land site number 101. The building was completed and occupied on September 30, 2018. Additional construction costs were incurred as follows:

Plans, specifications, and blueprints \(21,000

Architects’ fees for design and supervision 82,000

The building is estimated to have a 40-year life from date of completion and will be depreciated using the 150% declining balance method.

To finance construction costs, Blair borrowed \)3,000,000 on March 1, 2017. The loan is payable in 10 annual installments of \(300,000 starting on March 1, 2018, plus interest at the rate of 10%. Blair’s weighted-average amounts of accumulated building construction expenditures were as follows.

For the period March 1 to December 31, 2017 \)1,300,000

For the period January 1 to September 30, 2018 1,900,000

Instructions

  1. Prepare a schedule that discloses the individual costs making up the balance in the land account in respect of land site number 101 as of September 30, 2018.
  2. Prepare a schedule that discloses the individual costs that should be capitalized in the office building account as of September 30, 2018. Show supporting computations in good form.

(Acquisition Costs of Trucks) Kelly Clarkson Corporation operates a retail computer store. To improve delivery services to customers, the company purchases four new trucks on April 1, 2017. The terms of acquisition for each truck are described below.

  1. Truck #1 has a list price of \(15,000 and is acquired for a cash payment of \)13,900.
  2. Truck #2 has a list price of \(16,000 and is acquired for a down payment of \)2,000 cash and a zero-interest-bearing note with a face amount of \(14,000. The note is due April 1, 2018. Clarkson would normally have to pay interest at a rate of 10% for such a borrowing, and the dealership has an incremental borrowing rate of 8%.
  3. Truck #3 has a list price of \)16,000. It is acquired in exchange for a computer system that Clarkson carries in inventory. The computer system cost \(12,000 and is normally sold by Clarkson for \)15,200. Clarkson uses a perpetual inventory system.
  4. Truck #4 has a list price of \(14,000. It is acquired in exchange for 1,000 shares of common stock in Clarkson Corporation. The stock has a par value per share of \)10 and a market price of $13 per share.

Instructions

Prepare the appropriate journal entries for the above transactions for Clarkson Corporation.
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