(L04) (Nonmonetary Exchange) Busytown Corporation, which manufactures shoes, hired a recent college graduate to work in its...
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(L04) (Nonmonetary Exchange) Busytown Corporation, which manufactures shoes, hired a recent college graduate to work in its accounting department. On the first day of work, the accountant was assigned to total a batch of invoices with the use of an adding machine. Before long, the accountant, who had never before seen such a machine, managed to break the machine. Busytown Corporation gave the machine plus $340 to Dick Tracy Business Machine Company (dealer) in exchange for a new machine. Assume the following information about the machines.
Busytown Corp.
(Old Machine)
Dick Tracy Co.
(New Machine)
Machine cost $290 $270 Accumulated depreciation 140 –0–
Fair value 85 425 Instructions For each company, prepare the necessary journal entry to record the exchange. (The exchange has commercial substance.)
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