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Selected accounts included in the property, plant, and equipment section of Kingbird Corporations balance sheet at December 31, 2016, had the following balances. Land $432,000

Selected accounts included in the property, plant, and equipment section of Kingbird Corporations balance sheet at December 31, 2016, had the following balances.

Land $432,000
Land improvements 201,600
Buildings 1,584,000
Equipment 1,382,400

During 2017, the following transactions occurred.

1. A tract of land was acquired for $216,000 as a potential future building site.
2. A plant facility consisting of land and building was acquired from Mendota Company in exchange for 28,800 shares of Kingbirds common stock. On the acquisition date, Kingbirds stock had a closing market price of $37 per share on a national stock exchange. The plant facility was carried on Mendotas books at $158,400 for land and $460,800 for the building at the exchange date. Current appraised values for the land and building, respectively, are $331,200 and $993,600.
3. Items of machinery and equipment were purchased at a total cost of $576,000. Additional costs were incurred as follows.

Freight and unloading $18,720
Sales taxes 28,800
Installation 37,440

4. Expenditures totaling $136,800 were made for new parking lots, streets, and sidewalks at the corporations various plant locations. These expenditures had an estimated useful life of 15 years.
5. A machine costing $115,200 on January 1, 2009, was scrapped on June 30, 2017. Double-declining-balance depreciation has been recorded on the basis of a 10-year life.
6. A machine was sold for $28,800 on July 1, 2017. Original cost of the machine was $63,360 on January 1, 2014, and it was depreciated on the straight-line basis over an estimated useful life of 7 years and a salvage value of $2,880.

(a) Calculate the balance at December 31, 2017 in each of the following balance sheet accounts. (Hint: Disregard the related accumulated depreciation accounts.)

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