SkysongTimber Inc., a small private company that follows ASPE, owns13,000hectares of timberland purchased in 2007 at a
Question:
SkysongTimber Inc., a small private company that follows ASPE, owns13,000hectares of timberland purchased in 2007 at a cost of $1,300per hectare. At the time of purchase, the land without the timber was valued at $500per hectare. In 2008,Skysongbuilt fire lanes and roads, with a physical life of30years, at a cost of $84,000and separately capitalized these costs. Every year,Skysongsprays to prevent disease at a cost of $3,000per year and spends $10,000to maintain the fire lanes and roads. During 2009,Skysongselectively logged and sold650,000cubic metres of the estimated3.25million cubic metres of timber. In 2010,Skysongplanted new seedlings to replace the cut trees at a cost of $190,000.
Q1: Determine the depletion charge and the portion of depletion included in the cost of timber sold in 2010.
Q2: Provide the journal entries to record the depletion charged to inventory (and subsequently to cost of goods sold) for the year.
Q3: Skysonghas not logged since 2009. Assume thatSkysonglogged900,000cubic metres of timber in 2020, of which60% was sold in 2020 and the remainder sold in 2021. The timber cruiser (the appraiser) had estimated a total resource of5million cubic metres. Determine the cost of timber sold that relates to the depletion for 2020 and 2021.
Q4: Provide the journal entries to account for the cost of timber produced in 2020 and subsequently sold in 2020 and 2021.
Q5: Prepare the necessary journal entry to show howSkysongwould account for the maintenance costs of the fire lanes and roads and the spraying of the timberland