TexAm Petroleum holds huge reserves of oil and gas assets. Assume that at the end of 2012,

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TexAm Petroleum holds huge reserves of oil and gas assets. Assume that at the end of 2012, TexAm Petroleum’s cost of oil and gas reserves totaled $72,000,000,000, representing 8,000,000,000 barrels of oil and gas.
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1. Which depreciation method does TexAm Petroleum use to compute depletion?
2. Suppose TexAm Petroleum removed 400,000,000 barrels of oil during 2013. Journalize depletion expense for 2013.

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Financial and Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132497978

3rd Edition

Authors: Horngren, Harrison, Oliver

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