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Chapter 10: Q3Q (page 530)

Question: Name the items, in addition to the amount paid to the former owner or contractor, that may properly be included as part of the acquisition cost of the following plant assets. (a) Land. (b) Machinery and equipment. (c) Buildings

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  1. Land: purchase price, closing cost, improvement cost and other cost
  2. Equipment: Purchase price, installation, insurance, handling cost and freight.
  3. Building cost: Material, labor, overhead and professional fees.

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Acquisition cost of Land

Land includes the following costs:

  1. Purchase price of the land paid by the company.
  2. Closing cost like recoding cost, fees paid to attorney.
  3. Cost incurred by the company to made the land ready for use.
  4. Cost incurred on improvement of land.
02

Acquisition cost of machinery and equipment

Machinery and equipment include the following costs:

  1. Price paid to purchase the machinery and equipment.
  2. Cost incurred on the freight.
  3. Cost incurred on the insurance of the machinery and equipment in transit.
  4. Handling and installation cost of machinery and equipment.
03

Acquisition cost of Building

Buildings include the following costs:

  1. Construction cost of building which include the material, labor and overhead.
  2. Cost incurred on permits and pro

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(Entries for Asset Acquisition, Including Self-Construction) Below are transactions related to Duffner Company.

  1. The City of Pebble Beach gives the company 5 acres of land as a plant site. The fair value of this land is determined to be \(81,000.
  2. 13,000 shares of common stock with a par value of \)50 per share are issued in exchange for land and buildings. The property has been appraised at a fair value of \(810,000, of which \)180,000 has been allocated to land and \(630,000 to buildings. The stock of Duffner Company is not listed on any exchange, but a block of 100 shares was sold by a stockholder 12 months ago at \)65 per share, and a block of 200 shares was sold by another stockholder 18 months ago at \(58 per share.

No entry has been made to remove from the accounts for Materials, Direct Labor, and Overhead the amounts properly chargeable to plant asset accounts for machinery constructed during the year. The following information is given relative to costs of the machinery constructed.

Materials used

\)12,500

Factory supplies used

900

Direct labor incurred

15,000

Additional overhead (over regular) caused by construction of machinery, excluding factory supplies used

2,700

Fixed overhead rate applied to regular manufacturing operations

60% of direct labor cost

Cost of similar machinery if it had been purchased from

Outside suppliers

44,000

Instructions

Prepare journal entries on the books of Duffner Company to record these transactions.

Mehta Company traded a used welding machine (cost \(9,000, accumulated depreciation \)3,000) for office equipment with an estimated fair value of \(5,000. Mehta also paid \)3,000 cash in the transaction. Prepare the journal entry to record the exchange. (The exchange has commercial substance.)

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.

Question: What are the major characteristics of plant assets?

(Nonmonetary Exchanges) On August 1, Hyde, Inc. exchanged productive assets with Wiggins, Inc. Hyde’s asset is referred to below as “Asset A,” and Wiggins’ is referred to as “Asset B.” The following facts pertain to these assets.

Asset A

Asset B

Original cost

\(96,000

\)110,000

Accumulated depreciation (to date of exchange)

40,000

47,000

Fair value at date of exchange

60,000

75,000

Cash paid by Hyde, Inc.

15,000

Cash received by Wiggins, Inc.

15,000

Instructions

  1. Assuming that the exchange of Assets A and B has commercial substance, record the exchange for both Hyde, Inc. and Wiggins, Inc. in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
  2. Assuming that the exchange of Assets A and B lacks commercial substance, record the exchange for both Hyde, Inc. and Wiggins, Inc. in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
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