Chapter 11: Q19 Q (page 583)
Explain how gains or losses on impaired assets should be reported in income.
Short Answer
Answer
Impaired asset losses are reported as part of the income from continuing operations.
Chapter 11: Q19 Q (page 583)
Explain how gains or losses on impaired assets should be reported in income.
Answer
Impaired asset losses are reported as part of the income from continuing operations.
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Get started for free(Different Methods of Depreciation) Jackel Industries presents you with the following information.
Description | Date Purchased | Cost | Salvage Value | Life in years | Depreciation Method | Accumulated depreciation to 12/31/18 | Depreciation for 2019 |
Machine A | 2/12/17 | \(142,500 | \)16,000 | 10 | (a) | $33,350 | (b) |
Machine B | 8/15/16 | (c) | 21,000 | 5 | SL | 29,000 | (d) |
Machine C | 7/21/15 | 75,400 | 23,500 | 8 | DDB | (e) | (f) |
Machine D | 10/12/(g) | 219,000 | 69,000 | 5 | SYD | 70,000 | (h) |
Instructions
Complete the table for the year ended December 31, 2019. The company depreciates all assets using the half-year convention.
(Depreciation for Partial Periods—SL, Act., SYD, and Declining-Balance) The cost of equipment purchased by Charleston, Inc., on June 1, 2017, is \(89,000. It is estimated that the machine will have a \)5,000 salvage value at the end of its service life. Its service life is estimated at 7 years, its total working hours are estimated at 42,000, and its total production is estimated at 525,000 units. During 2017, the machine was operated 6,000 hours and produced 55,000 units. During 2018, the machine was operated 5,500 hours and produced 48,000 units.
Instructions Compute depreciation expense on the machine for the year ending December 31, 2017, and the year ending December 31, 2018, using the following methods.
(Impairment) Assume the same information as E11-16, except that Suarez intends to dispose of the equipment in the coming year. It is expected that the cost of disposal will be \(20,000.
Cost | \)9,000,000 |
Accumulated depreciation to date | 1,000,000 |
Expected future net cash flows | 7,000,000 |
Fair value | 4,800,000 |
Instructions
(Depreciation—Strike, Units-of-Production, Obsolescence) The following are three different and unrelated situations involving depreciation accounting. Answer the question(s) at the end of each situation.
Situation I: Recently, Broderick Company experienced a strike that affected a number of its operating plants. The controller of this company indicated that it was not appropriate to report depreciation expense during this period because the equipment did not depreciate and an improper matching of costs and revenues would result. She based her position on the following points.
1. It is inappropriate to charge the period with costs for which there are no related revenues arising from production.
2. The basic factor of depreciation in this instance is wear and tear. Because equipment was idle, no wear and tear occurred.
Instructions
Comment on the appropriateness of the controller’s comments.
Situation II: Etheridge Company manufactures electrical appliances, most of which are used in homes. Company engineers have designed a new type of blender which, through the use of a few attachments, will perform more functions than any blender currently on the market. Demand for the new blender can be projected with reasonable probability. In order to make the blenders, Etheridge needs a specialized machine that is not available from outside sources. It has been decided to make such a machine in Etheridge’s own plant.
Instructions
Situation III: Haley Paper Company operates a 300-ton-per-day kraft pulp mill and four sawmills in Wisconsin. The company is in the process of expanding its pulp mill facilities to a capacity of 1,000 tons per day and plans to replace three of its older, less efficient sawmills with an expanded facility. One of the mills to be replaced did not operate for most of 2017 (current year), and there are no plans to reopen it before the new sawmill facility becomes operational.
In reviewing the depreciation rates and discussing the salvage values of the sawmills that were to be replaced, it was noted that if present depreciation rates were not adjusted, substantial amounts of plant costs on these three mills would not be depreciated by the time the new mill came on stream.
Instructions
What is the proper accounting for the four sawmills at the end of 2017?
(Impairment) The management of Petro Garcia Inc. was discussing whether certain equipment should be written off as a charge to current operations because of obsolescence. This equipment has a cost of \(900,000 with depreciation to date of \)400,000 as of December 31, 2017. On December 31, 2017, management projected its future net cash flows from this equipment to be \(300,000 and its fair value to be \)230,000. The company intends to use this equipment in the future.
Instructions
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