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Sorenson Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated on January 3, 2013. The corporations financial statements for its first years operations were not examined by a CPA. You
Sorenson Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated on January 3, 2013. The corporations financial statements for its first years operations were not examined by a CPA. You have been engaged to audit the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, and your work is substantially completed. A partial trial balance of the companys accounts follows:
SORENSON MANUFACTURING CORPORATION | |||||
Trial Balance | |||||
at December 31, 2014 | |||||
Debit | Credit | ||||
Cash | $ | 11,000 | |||
Accounts receivable | 42,500 | ||||
Allowance for doubtful accounts | $ | 500 | |||
Inventories | 38,500 | ||||
Machinery | 75,000 | ||||
Equipment | 29,000 | ||||
Accumulated depreciation | 10,000 | ||||
Patents | 85,000 | ||||
Leasehold improvements | 26,000 | ||||
Prepaid expenses | 10,500 | ||||
Organization expenses | 29,000 | ||||
Goodwill | 24,000 | ||||
Licensing Agreement No. 1* | 50,000 | ||||
Licensing Agreement No. 2* | 49,000 | ||||
* An intangible asset representing the right to use a patent. |
The following information relates to accounts that may yet require adjustment: |
1. | Patents for Sorensons manufacturing process were purchased January 2, 2014, at a cost of $68,000. An additional $17,000 was spent in December 2012 to improve machinery covered by the patents and charged to the Patents account. The patents had a remaining legal term of 17 years. |
2. | On January 3, 2011, Sorenson purchased two licensing agreements; at that time they were believed to have unlimited useful lives. The balance in the Licensing Agreement No. 1 account included its purchase price of $48,000 and $2,000 in acquisition expenses. Licensing Agreement No. 2 also was purchased on January 3, 2013, for $50,000, but it has been reduced by a credit of $1,000 for the advance collection of revenue from the agreement. |
3. | In December 2013, an explosion caused a permanent 60 percent reduction in the expected revenue-producing value of Licensing Agreement No. 1 and, in January 2014, a flood caused additional damage, which rendered the agreement worthless. |
4. | A study of Licensing Agreement No. 2 made by Sorenson in January 2014 revealed that its estimated remaining life expectancy was only 10 years as of January 1, 2014. |
5. | The balance in the Goodwill account includes $24,000 paid December 30, 2013, for an advertising program, which it is estimated will assist in increasing Sorensons sales over a period of four years following the disbursement. |
6. | The Leasehold Improvement account includes (a) the $15,000 cost of improvements with a total estimated useful life of 12 years, which Sorenson, as tenant, made to leased premises in January 2013; (b) movable assembly-line equipment costing $8,500, which was installed in the leased premises in December 2014; and (c) real estate taxes of $2,500 paid by Sorenson, which, under the terms of the lease, should have been paid by the landlord. Sorenson paid its rent in full during 2014. A 10-year nonrenewable lease was signed January 3, 2013, for the leased building that Sorenson used in manufacturing operations. |
7. | The balance in the Organization Expenses account includes preoperating costs incurred during the organizational period. |
Required: |
a. | For each of the items 17, prepare adjusting entries as necessary. (Omit the '$" sign in your response.) |
Sl No. | General Journal | Debit | Credit |
1. | |||
To transfer cost of improving machinery to the fixed asset account | |||
To record straight-line amortization of patents for the year | |||
2. | |||
To record unearned revenue in a deferred credit account | |||
3. | |||
To record the 60% loss caused by the explosion in the prior year. Correction of an accounting error of the prior year. Write-off of damage due to flood | |||
4. | |||
To record amortization for the year on straight-line basis, 10-year life | |||
5. | |||
To correct the accounting error of last year of improperly capitalizing an expense item | |||
6. | |||
To record equipment in the proper account and to record a receivable for the real estate taxes | |||
To record current amortization and correct the error of failure to record amortization of leasehold improvements on a straight-line, 10-year basis. No adjustment to depreciation of equipment because it was acquired in December | |||
7. | |||
To write off organizational expenses improperly capitalized in prior period | |||
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