On January 1, 2020, Sweet Ltd. purchased the right to extract oil from proven oil reserves on provincial government land. It paid $960,000 for production equipment and debited the Equipment account for the purchase price. Operations began on that day, and the agreement provided for three years of operations (until December 31, 2022), at which time it was estimated the oil reserves would be exhausted. Sweet planned to extract the oil evenly over the three-year period and therefore decided to depreciate the cost of the equipment using the straight-line method, with no residual or salvage value. Included in the agreement with the government was a provision that the business would clean up the site at the end of the three years. On the date of purchase, Sweets engineers and accountants estimated that the total cost to clean up the site on December 31, 2022 would total $350,000, and the discount rate to be applied to that future cost would be 8%. (Note: clean-up costs are also being debited to Equipment). On December 31, 2022, a contractor was paid $343,500 to clean up the site, and in January 2023 the site was closed. Sweets fiscal year end was December 31, and the company followed ASPE. Prepare the required journal entries for each of the following dates, using the expense approach. (Note: no inventory or sales related journal entries are required to be prepared):

		January 1, 2020 Use (a) factor Table A.2, (b) a financial calculator, or (c) Excel function PV.
		December 31, 2020
		December 31, 2021
		December 31, 2022

Date Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit Jan 1, 2020 Equipment Asset Retirement Obligation Cash 960000 (To record acquisition of the production equipment and asset retirement obligations.) (To record accretion expense.) (To record depreciation for the production equipment.) 15 (To record accretion expense.) (To record depreciation for the production equipment.) (To record accretion expense.) (To record depreciation for the production equipment.) (To record settlement of asset retirement obligation.)