TexAm Petroleum holds huge reserves of oil assets. Assume that at the end of 2013, TexAm Petroleums

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TexAm Petroleum holds huge reserves of oil assets. Assume that at the end of 2013, TexAm Petroleum’s cost of oil reserves totaled $ 72,000,000,000, representing 8,000,000,000 barrels of oil.


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1. Which method does TexAm Petroleum use to compute depletion?

2. Suppose TexAm Petroleum removed and sold 400,000,000 barrels of oil during 2014. Journalize depletion expense for 2014.


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Horngrens Financial and Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0133255584

4th Edition

Authors: Tracie L. Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura

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