Top Quality Food Ltd. (TQF) is a medium-sized private food-processing company founded more than twenty years ago by Ray Smith. TQF is located in Newmarket and mainly provides frozen chicken, pork, and beef products to grocery stores and restaurants in the greater Toronto area and its surroundings. Ray is the CEO and sole common shareholder of the company. In recent decades, consumers pursue healthy lifestyle and tend to eat less meat but more fruits and vegetables. In noticing this market trend, Ray decided to add a new product line to produce frozen fruits. Ray approached Meridian Credit Union in early 2020 for a long-term loan to finance its planned new product line. After carefully reviewing TQFs business plan, Meridian agreed to finance the purchase of new equipments for the new product line in processing and packaging frozen fruits, and the new equipment will be used as the loan collateral. Meridian also imposes a debt to equity ratio of not more than 1 to 1 for the loan, and requires audited financial statements from TQF every year. Ray agreed to satisfy all of Meridians requests, and in the fall of 2020, he hired Sherman LLP as the auditor for TQF. As a staff accountant of Sherman, your supervisor asked you to take care of the TQF account. December 31, 2020 will be the first year end which TQF will be audited. TQFs earnings in recent years have averaged $ 300,000. In a recent meeting with Ray, he asked you to comment on the relevant accounting policies regarding the transactions which you have noted below:

1. TQF has been depreciating equipment over a 10 year life on a straight line basis. An equipment, which costs $ 24,000, was purchased on January 1, 2016 and has an estimated residual value of $ 6,000. On the basis of experience since acquisition, management has decided in 2020 to depreciate it over an extended total life of 14 years with no change in the estimated residual value. The change is to be effective on January 1, 2020.