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Sorenson Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated on January 3, 2019. The corporations financial statements for its first years operations were not examined by a CPA. You
Sorenson Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated on January 3, 2019. 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, 2020, and your work is substantially completed. A partial trial balance of the companys accounts follows:
SORENSON MANUFACTURING CORPORATION | |||||||
Trial Balance | |||||||
at December 31, 2020 | |||||||
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:
- Patents for Sorensons manufacturing process were purchased January 2, 2020, at a cost of $68,000. An additional $17,000 was spent in December 2020 to improve machinery covered by the patents and charged to the Patents account. The patents had a remaining legal term of 17 years.
- On January 3, 2019, 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, 2019, for $50,000, but it has been reduced by a credit of $1,000 for the advance collection of revenue from the agreement.
- In December 2019, an explosion caused a permanent 60 percent reduction in the expected revenue-producing value of Licensing Agreement No. 1 and, in January 2020, a flood caused additional damage, which rendered the agreement worthless.
- A study of Licensing Agreement No. 2 made by Sorenson in January 2020 revealed that its estimated remaining life expectancy was only 10 years as of January 1, 2020.
- The balance in the Goodwill account includes $24,000 paid December 30, 2019, for an advertising program, which it is estimated will assist in increasing Sorensons sales over a period of four years following the disbursement.
- 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 2019; (b) movable assembly-line equipment costing $8,500, which was installed in the leased premises in December 2020; 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 2020. A 10-year nonrenewable lease was signed January 3, 2019, for the leased building that Sorenson used in manufacturing operations.
- The balance in the Organization Expenses account includes preoperating costs incurred during the organizational period.
Required: 1. For each of the items 17, prepare adjusting entries as necessary. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
1-a Record transfer cost of improving machinery to the fixed asset account.
1-b Record straight-line amortization of patents for the year.
2. Record unearned revenue in a deferred credit account.
3. 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. Record amortization for the year on straight line basis, 10 year life.
5. Record correct the accounting error of last year of improperly capitalizing an expense item
6-a Record equipment in the proper account and to record a receivable for the real estate taxes.
6-b Record current amortization and correct the error of failure to record amortization of leasehold improvements on a straight-line, 10 year basis.
7 Record write off organizational expenses improperly capitalized in prior period.
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