Khamsah Mining Company has purchased a tract of mineral land for $900,000. It is estimated that this tract will yield 120,000 tons of ore with sufficient mineral content to make mining and processing profitable. It is further estimated that 6,000 tons of ore will be mined the first and last year and 12,000 tons every year in between. The land will have a salvage value of $30,000. The company builds necessary structures and sheds on the site at a cost of $36,000. It is estimated that these structures can serve 15 years but, because they must be dismantled if they are to be moved, they have no salvage value. The company does not intend to use the buildings elsewhere. Mining machinery installed at the mine was purchased secondhand at a cost of $60,000. This machinery cost the former owner $150,000 and was 50% depreciated when purchased. Khamsah Mining estimates that about half of this machinery will still be useful when the present mineral resources have been exhausted, but that dismantling and removal costs will just about offset its value at that time. The company does not intend to use the machinery elsewhere. The remaining machinery will last until about one-half the present estimated mineral ore has been removed and will then be worthless. Cost is to be allocated equally between these two classes of machinery.
Instructions
(a) As chief accountant for the company, you are to prepare a schedule showing estimated depletion and depreciation costs for each year of the expected life of the mine.
(b) Also compute the depreciation and depletion for the first year assuming actual production of 5,000 tons. Nothing occurred during the year to cause the company engineers to change their estimates of either the mineral resources or the life of the structures and equipment.
> Research and development activities may include (a) personnel costs, (b) materials and equipment costs, and (c) indirect costs. What is the recommended accounting treatment for these three types of R&D costs?
> What is the nature of research and development costs?
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> Explain how losses on impaired intangible assets should be reported in income.
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> In examining financial statements, financial analysts often write off goodwill immediately. Comment on this procedure.
> What is goodwill? What is a bargain purchase?
> Explain the difference between artistic-related intangible assets and contract-related intangible assets.
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> The financial statements of Marks and Spencer plc (M&S) are available at the book’s companion website or can be accessed at http://annualreport.marksandspencer.com/_assets/downloads/Marks-and-Spencer-Annual-report-and-financial-statements-2012.
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> Companies following international accounting standards are permitted to revalue fixed assets above the assets’ historical costs. Such revaluations are allowed under various countries’ standards and the standards issued by the IASB. Liberty In
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> Assume the same information as in IFRS11-11, except that Pujols intends to dispose of the equipment in the coming year. In IFRS11-11 Instructions (a) Prepare the journal entry (if any) to record the impairment of the asset at December 31, 2014.(b) Prepa
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> Why might a company choose not to use revaluation accounting?
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> Jerry Prior, Beeler Corporation’s controller, is concerned that net income may be lower this year. He is afraid upper-level management might recommend cost reductions by laying off accounting staff, including him. Prior knows that depreciation is a
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> Explain how estimation of service lives can result in unrealistically high carrying values for fixed assets.
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> Some believe that accounting depreciation measures the decline in the value of fixed assets. Do you agree? Explain.
> Use the information for Lockard Company given in BE11-2. In BE11-2 Lockard Company purchased machinery on January 1, 2014, for $80,000. The machinery is estimated to have a salvage value of $8,000 after a useful life of 8 years (a) Compute 2014 depreciat
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> What is a modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS)? Speculate as to why this system is now required for tax purposes.
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> Shumway Oil uses successful-efforts accounting and also provides full-cost results as well. Under full-cost, Shumway Oil would have reported retained earnings of $42 million and net income of $4 million. Under successfulefforts, retained earnings were $2
> The following statement appeared in a financial magazine: “RRA—or Rah-Rah, as it’s sometimes dubbed—has kicked up quite a storm. Oil companies, for example, are convinced that the approach is misleading. Major accounting firms
> Describe cost depletion and percentage depletion. Why is the percentage depletion method permitted?
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> Explain how gains or losses on impaired assets should be reported in income.
> Toro Co. has equipment with a carrying amount of $700,000. The expected future net cash flows from the equipment are $705,000, and its fair value is $590,000. The equipment is expected to be used in operations in the future. What amount (if any) should T
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> Under what conditions is it appropriate for a business to use the composite method of depreciation for its plant assets? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method?
> Distinguish among depreciation, depletion, and amortization.
> Briefly describe how the purchases and sales of inventory with the same counterparty are similar to the accounting for other nonmonetary exchanges.
> Herb Scholl, the owner of Scholl’s Company, wonders whether interest costs associated with developing land can ever be capitalized. What does the Codification say on this matter?
> Access the glossary (“Master Glossary”) to answer the following. (a) What does it mean to “capitalize” an item? (b) What is the definition of a nonmonetary asset? (c) What is a nonreciprocal transfer? (d) What is the d
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> Grieg Landscaping began construction of a new plant on December 1, 2014. On this date, the company purchased a parcel of land for $139,000 in cash. In addition, it paid $2,000 in surveying costs and $4,000 for a title insurance policy. An old dwelling on
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