Mandall Company constructed a warehouse for \(280,000 on January 2, 2017. Mandall estimates that the warehouse has a useful life of 20 years and no residual value. Construction records indicate that \)40,000 of the cost of the warehouse relates to its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, which has an estimated useful life of only 10 years. What is the first year of depreciation expense using straightline component depreciation under IFRS?

(a) \(28,000. (c) \)16,000.

(b) \(14,000. (d) \)4,000.

Short Answer

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The correct option is option (c) $16,000.

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01

Meaning of IFRS

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is a collection of accounting standards produced by the International Accounting Standards Board(IASB), a non-profit organization. It is a collection of globally agreed accounting standards that lays out rules and procedures for accounting.

02

Explaining the correct answer

Depreciation expense for the warehouse:

Depreciation = Warehousecost-CostofthewarehouserelatestoHVACsystemEstimatedlife

=$280,000-$40,00020

=$12,000

Depreciation expense for warehouse relates to HVAC system:

Depreciation = warehousecostrelatestoHVACsystemEstimatedlife

= $40,00010

=$4,000

So, the total depreciation is $16,000 ($12,000 + $4,000).

03

Explaining the incorrect option

Option (a): The depreciation expenses can be $28,000 as the cost of the warehouse should be subtracted from the cost of the warehouse related to the HVAC system, and it should be divided by an estimated life of 20 years, not useful life of 10 years.

Option (b): Expense of $14,000 for depreciation is a totally wrong result as it does not follow the formula to determine the depreciation expense.

Option (d): Depreciation expense of $4,000 is the only depreciation expense for the warehouse related to the HVAC system. The combined depreciation for the warehouse and the warehouse related to HVAC should be ascertained for a correct result.

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(Depreciation Basic Concepts) Burnitz Manufacturing Company was organized on January 1, 2017. In 2017, it has used in its reports to management the straight-line method of depreciating its plant assets.

On November 8, you are having a conference with Burnitz’s officers to discuss the depreciation method to be used for income tax and stockholder reporting. James Bryant, president of Burnitz, has suggested the use of a new method, which he feels is more suitable than the straight-line method for the needs of the company during the period of rapid expansion of production and capacity that he foresees. Following is an example in which the proposed method is applied to a fixed asset with an original cost of \(248,000, an estimated useful life of 5 years, and a salvage value of approximately \)8,000.

Year

Year of life used

Fraction rate

Depreciation expense

Accumulated depreciation at the end of year

Book value at the end of Year

1

1

1/15

\(16,000

\) 16,000

$232,000

2

2

2/15

32,000

48,000

200,000

3

3

3/15

48,000

96,000

152,000

4

4

4/15

64,000

160,000

88,000

5

5

5/15

80,000

240,000

8,000

The president favors the new method because he has heard that:

  1. It will increase the funds recovered during the years near the end of the assets’ useful lives when maintenance and replacement disbursements are high.
  2. It will result in increased write-offs in later years and thereby will reduce taxes.

Instructions

  1. What is the purpose of accounting for depreciation?
  2. Is the president’s proposal within the scope of generally accepted accounting principles? In making your decision, discuss the circumstances, if any, under which use of the method would be reasonable and those, if any, under which it would not be reasonable.
  3. The president wants your advice on the following issues.
    1. Do depreciation charges recover or create funds? Explain.

(2) Assume that the Internal Revenue Service accepts the proposed depreciation method in this case. If the proposed method were used for stockholder and tax reporting purposes, how would it affect the availability of cash flows generated by operations?

(Depreciation Computation—Addition, Change in Estimate) In 1990, Herman Moore Company completed the construction of a building at a cost of \(2,000,000 and first occupied it in January 1991. It was estimated that the building will have a useful life of 40 years and a salvage value of \)60,000 at the end of that time.

Early in 2001, an addition to the building was constructed at a cost of \(500,000. At that time, it was estimated that the remaining life of the building would be, as originally estimated, an additional 30 years and that the addition would have a life of 30 years and a salvage value of \)20,000.

In 2019, it is determined that the probable life of the building and addition will extend to the end of 2050, or 20 years beyond the original estimate.

Instructions

  1. Using the straight-line method, compute the annual depreciation that would have been charged from 1991 through 2000.
  2. Compute the annual depreciation that would have been charged from 2001 through 2018.
  3. Prepare the entry, if necessary, to adjust the account balances because of the revision of the estimated life in 2019.
  4. Compute the annual depreciation to be charged, beginning with 2019.

(Depreciation and Error Analysis) A depreciation schedule for semi-trucks of Ichiro Manufacturing Company was requested by your auditor soon after December 31, 2018, showing the additions, retirements, depreciation, and other data affecting the income of the company in the 4-year period 2015 to 2018, inclusive. The following data were ascertained.

Balance of Trucks account, Jan. 1, 2015

Truck No. 1 purchased Jan. 1, 2012, cost

\(18,000

Truck No. 2 purchased July 1, 2012, cost

22,000

Truck No. 3 purchased Jan. 1, 2014, cost

30,000

Truck No. 4 purchased July 1, 2014, cost

24,000

Balance, Jan. 1, 2015

\)94,000

The Accumulated Depreciation—Trucks account previously adjusted to January 1, 2015, and entered in the ledger, had a balance on that date of \(30,200 (depreciation on the four trucks from the respective dates of purchase, based on a 5-year life, no salvage value). No charges had been made against the account before January 1, 2015.

Transactions between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, which were recorded in the ledger, are as follows.

July 1, 2015 Truck No. 3 was traded for a larger one (No. 5), the agreed purchase price of which was \)40,000. Ichiro. paid the automobile dealer \(22,000 cash on the transaction. The entry was a debit to Trucks and a credit to Cash, \)22,000. The transaction has commercial substance.

Jan. 1, 2016 Truck No. 1 was sold for \(3,500 cash; entry debited Cash and credited Trucks, \)3,500.

July 1, 2017 A new truck (No. 6) was acquired for \(42,000 cash and was charged at that amount to the Trucks account. (Assume truck No. 2 was not retired.)

July 1, 2017 Truck No. 4 was damaged in a wreck to such an extent that it was sold as junk for \)700 cash. Ichiro received \(2,500 from the insurance company. The entry made by the bookkeeper was a debit to Cash, \)3,200, and credits to Miscellaneous Income, \(700, and Trucks, \)2,500.

Entries for straight-line depreciation had been made at the close of each year as follows: 2015, \(21,000; 2016, \)22,500; 2017, \(25,050; and 2018, \)30,400.

Instructions

  1. For each of the 4 years, compute separately the increase or decrease in net income arising from the company’s errors in determining or entering depreciation or in recording transactions affecting trucks, ignoring income tax considerations.
  2. Prepare one compound journal entry as of December 31, 2018, for adjustment of the Trucks account to reflect the correct balances as revealed by your schedule, assuming that the books have not been closed for 2018.

(Depletion Computations—Timber) Stanislaw Timber Company owns 9,000 acres of timberland purchased in 2006 at a cost of \(1,400 per acre. At the time of purchase, the land without the timber was valued at \)400 per acre. In 2007, Stanislaw built fire lanes and roads, with a life of 30 years, at a cost of \(84,000. Every year, Stanislaw sprays to prevent disease at a cost of \)3,000 per year and spends \(7,000 to maintain the fire lanes and roads. During 2008, Stanislaw selectively logged and sold 700,000 board feet of timber of the estimated 3,500,000 board feet. In 2009, Stanislaw planted new seedlings to replace the trees cut at a cost of \)100,000.

Instructions

  1. Determine the depreciation expense and the cost of timber sold related to depletion for 2008.
  2. Stanislaw has not logged since 2008. If Stanislaw logged and sold 900,000 board feet of timber in 2019, when the timber cruise (appraiser) estimated 5,000,000 board feet, determine the cost of timber sold related to depletion for 2019.

Use the information for Lockard Company given in BE11-2. (a) Compute 2017 depreciation expense using the sum-of-the-years’-digits method. (b) Compute 2017 depreciation expense using the sum-of-the-years’-digits method, assuming the machinery was purchased on April 1, 2017.

Lockard Company purchased machinery on January 1, 2017, for \(80,000. The machinery is estimated to have a salvage value of \)8,000 after a useful life of 8 years.

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