Despatch Brick Company (Pty) Ltd owns a fleet of delivery vehicles. For the year ended 30 September

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Despatch Brick Company (Pty) Ltd owns a fleet of delivery vehicles. For the year ended 30 September 20x4, this information relates to the vehicles:

Trade-in on CCN 10405, original cost R17 000, accumulated depreciation to 1 October 20x3 was R14 000.

The company depreciates vehicles at 20% per annum on the diminishing-balance method.


You are required to:

• Calculate the depreciation for the year.

• Calculate the profit and loss on sale of each vehicle.

• Show how the non-current assets will be disclosed in the statement of financial position on 30 September 20x4.

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Fundamental Accounting

ISBN: 9781485112112

7th Edition

Authors: David Flynn, Carolina Koornhof, Ronald Arendse, Anna C. E. Coetzee, Edwardo Muriro, Louise Christel Posthumus, Louise Mancy Smit

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