Montaigne Delivery Company has a truck that it wants to sell. The truck had an original cost
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Montaigne Delivery Company has a truck that it wants to sell. The truck had an original cost of $60,000, was purchased three years ago, and was expected to have a useful life of eight years with no salvage value. Using straight-line depreciation and assuming that depreciation expense for three full years has been recorded, prepare journal entries to record the disposal of the truck under each of the following independent conditions:
1. Montaigne sells the truck for $42,000 cash.
2. Montaigne sells the truck for $35,000 cash.
3. The old truck is wrecked and Montaigne hauls it to the junkyard.
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
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