Chapter 9: 15RQ (page 488)
What is a natural resource? What is the process by which businesses spread the allocation of a natural resource’s cost over its usage?
Natural resources are assets that come from the earth and the process of spreading the allocation of natural resources is known as depletion.
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Handling acquisition of patent, amortization, and change in useful life Melbourn Printers (MP) manufactures printers. Assume that MP recently paid $200,000 for a patent on a new laser printer. Although it gives legal protection for 20 years, the patent is expected to provide a competitive advantage for only eight years
Requirements
1. Assuming the straight-line method of amortization, make journal entries to record
(a) The purchase of the patent and
(b) Amortization for the first full year.
2. After using the patent for four years, MP learns at an industry trade show that another company is designing a more efficient printer. On the basis of this new information, MP decides, starting with Year 5, to amortize the remaining cost of the patent over two remaining years, giving the patent a total useful life of six years. Record amortization for Year 5.
What is the difference between capital expenditure and a revenue expenditure? Give an example of each.
Define property, plant, and equipment. Provide some examples.
Question:Jim Reed manages a fleet of utility trucks for a rural county government. He’s been in his job for 30 years, and he knows where the angles are. He makes sure that when new trucks are purchased, the residual value is set as low as possible. Then, when they become fully depreciated, they are sold off by the county at residual value. Jim makes sure his buddies in the construction business are first in line for the bargain sales, and they make sure he gets a little something back. Recently, a new county commissioner was elected with vows to cut expenses for the taxpayers. Unlike other commissioners, this man has a business degree, and he is coming to visit Jim tomorrow.
Requirements
1. When a business sells a fully depreciated asset for its residual value, is a gain or loss recognized?
2. How do businesses determine what residual values to use for their various assets? Are there “hard and fast” rules for residual values?
3. How would an organization prevent the kind of fraud depicted here?
Counselors of Atlanta purchased equipment on January 1, 2017, for \(20,000. Counselors of Atlanta expected the equipment to last for four years and have a residual value of \)2,000. Suppose Counselors of Atlanta sold the equipment for $8,000 on December 31, 2019, after using the equipment for three full years. Assume depreciation for 2019 has been recorded. Journalize the sale of the equipment, assuming straight-line depreciation was used.
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