Ironic Metal Products, Inc., acquired a machine on January 2, 2010, for $76,600. The useful life of
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Ironic Metal Products, Inc., acquired a machine on January 2, 2010, for $76,600. The useful life of the machine was estimated to be eight years with a salvage value of $4,600. Depreciation is recorded on December 31 of each year using the sum-of-the-years’-digits method. At the beginning of 2012, the company estimated the remaining useful life of the machine to be four years and changed the estimated salvage value from $4,600 to $2,600. On January 2, 2013, major repairs on the machine cost the company $34,000. The repairs added two years to the machine’s useful life and increased the salvage value to $3,000.
Required:
1. Prepare journal entries to record:
a. The purchase of the machine
b. Annual depreciation expense for the years 2010 and 2011
c. Depreciation in 2012 under the revised estimates of useful life and salvage value
d. The expenditure for major repairs in 2013
e. Depreciation expense for 2013
2. Compute the book value of the machine at the end of 2013.
Salvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important...
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Accounting concepts and applications
ISBN: 978-0538745482
11th Edition
Authors: Albrecht Stice, Stice Swain