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Prepared by

Coby Harmon

University of California, Santa Barbara

Westmont College

WILEY

IFRS EDITION

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PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 9

Financial Accounting

IFRS 3rd Edition

Weygandt ● Kimmel ● Kieso

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9

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Describe how the historical cost principle applies to plant assets.
  2. Explain the concept of depreciation and how to compute it.
  3. Distinguish between revenue and capital expenditures, and explain the entries for each.
  4. Explain how to account for the disposal of a plant asset.
  5. Compute periodic depletion of extractable natural resources.
  6. Explain the basic issues related to accounting for intangible assets.
  7. Indicate how plant assets, natural resources, and intangible assets are reported.

CHAPTER

Plant Assets, Natural Resources, and Intangible Assets

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Plant assets are resources that have

    • physical substance (a definite size and

shape),

    • are used in the operations of a business,
    • are not intended for sale to customers,
    • are expected to provide service to the company for a number of years.

Referred to as property, plant, and equipment; plant and equipment; and fixed assets.

Plant Assets

Learning Objective 1

Describe how the

historical cost principle applies to plant assets.

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Plant assets are critical to a company’s success.

Plant Assets

Illustration 9-1

Percentages of plant assets in relation to total assets

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The historical cost principle requires that companies record plant assets at cost.

Cost consists of all expenditures necessary to acquire an asset and make it ready for its intended use.

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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All necessary costs incurred in making land ready for its intended use increase (debit) the Land account.

Costs typically include:

      • cash purchase price,
      • closing costs such as title and attorney’s fees,
      • real estate brokers’ commissions,
      • accrued property taxes and other liens assumed by the purchaser, and
      • clearing, leveling, demo of existing structures.

LAND

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Lew Company Ltd. acquires real estate at a cash cost of HK$2,000,000. The property contains an old warehouse that is razed at a net cost of HK$60,000 (HK$75,000 in costs less HK$15,000 proceeds from salvaged materials). Additional expenditures are the attorney’s fee, HK$10,000, and the real estate broker’s commission, HK$80,000.

Required: Determine the amount to be reported as the cost of the land.

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Land

Required: Determine amount to be reported as the cost of the land.

Cash price of property (HK$2,000,000)

Net removal cost of warehouse (HK$60,000)

Attorney's fees (HK$10,000)

10,000

60,000

HK$2,000,000

HK$2,150,000

Cost of Land

Real estate broker’s commission (HK$80,000)

80,000

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Entry to record the acquisition of the land:

Land 2,150,000

Cash 2,150,000

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LAND IMPROVEMENTS

Includes all expenditures necessary to make the improvements ready for their intended use.

    • Examples: driveways, parking lots, fences, landscaping, and lighting.
    • Limited useful lives.
    • Expense (depreciate) the cost of land improvements over their useful lives.

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Includes all costs related directly to purchase or construction.

Purchase costs:

    • Purchase price, closing costs (attorney’s fees, title insurance, etc.) and real estate broker’s commission.
    • Remodeling and replacing or repairing the roof, floors, electrical wiring, and plumbing.

Construction costs:

    • Contract price plus payments for architects’ fees, building permits, and excavation costs.

BUILDINGS

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Include all costs incurred in acquiring the equipment and preparing it for use.

Costs typically include:

    • Cash purchase price.
    • Sales taxes.
    • Freight charges.
    • Insurance during transit paid by the purchaser.
    • Expenditures required in assembling, installing, and testing the unit.

EQUIPMENT

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Zhang Company purchases factory machinery at a cash price of HK$500,000. Related expenditures are for sales taxes HK$30,000, insurance during shipping HK$5,000, and installation and testing HK$10,000. Compute the cost of the machinery.

Machinery

Cash price

Sales taxes

Insurance during shipping

5,000

30,000

HK$500,000

HK$545,000

Cost of Machinery

Installation and testing

10,000

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Cash 545,000

Equipment 545,000

Illustration: Zhang Company purchases factory machinery at a cash price of HK$500,000. Related expenditures are for sales taxes HK$30,000, insurance during shipping HK$5,000, and installation and testing HK$10,000. Prepare the journal entry to record these costs.

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Huang Company purchases a delivery truck at a cash price of HK$420,000. Related expenditures are sales taxes HK$13,200, painting and lettering HK$5,000, motor vehicle license HK$800, and a three-year accident insurance policy HK$16,000. Compute the cost of the delivery truck.

Truck

Cash price

Sales taxes

Painting and lettering

5,000

13,200

HK$420,000

HK$438,200

Cost of Delivery Truck

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Huang Company purchases a delivery truck at a cash price of HK$420,000. Related expenditures are sales taxes HK$13,200, painting and lettering HK$5,000, motor vehicle license HK$800, and a three-year accident insurance policy HK$16,000. Prepare the journal entry to record these costs.

Equipment 438,200

License Expense 800

Prepaid Insurance 16,000

Cash 455,000

Determining the Cost of Plant Assets

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ACCOUNTING ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION

Many Firms Use Leases

Leasing is big business. Who does the most leasing? AWAS (IRL), J.P. Morgan Leasing (USA), and ICBC (CHN) are major lessors. Also, many companies have established separate leasing companies, such as Boeing Capital Corporation (USA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (JPN), and John Deere Capital Corporation (USA). And, as an excellent example of the magnitude of leasing, leased planes account for a high percentage of commercial airlines. Leasing is also becoming more common in the hotel industry. Marriott (USA), Hilton (USA), and InterContinental (GBR) are increasingly choosing to lease hotels that are owned by someone else.

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Process of allocating to expense the cost

of a plant asset over its useful (service) life

in a rational and systematic manner.

    • Process of cost allocation, not asset valuation.
    • Applies to land improvements, buildings, and equipment, not land.
    • Depreciable, because the revenue-producing ability of asset will decline over the asset’s useful life.

Depreciation

Learning Objective 2

Explain the concept

of depreciation and

how to compute it.

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Depreciation is a process of:

    • valuation.
    • cash accumulation.
    • cost allocation.
    • appraisal.

Question

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Depreciation

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FACTORS IN COMPUTING DEPRECIATION

Illustration 9-6

Three factors in computing depreciation

• HELPFUL HINT

Depreciation expense is reported on the income statement. Accumulated depreciation is reported on the balance sheet as a deduction from plant assets.

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Management selects the method it believes best measures an asset’s contribution to revenue over its useful life.

Examples include:

    • Straight-line method
    • Units-of-activity method
    • Declining-balance method

DEPRECIATION METHODS

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Illustration: Bob’s Florist purchased a small delivery truck on January 1, 2017.

Cost €13,000

Expected residual value €1,000

Estimated useful life in years 5

Estimated useful life in miles 100,000

Required: Compute depreciation using the following.

(a) Straight-Line. (b) Units-of-Activity. (c) Declining-Balance.

DEPRECIATION METHODS

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  • Expense is same amount for each year.
  • Depreciable cost = Cost less salvage value.

STRAIGHT-LINE METHOD

ILLUSTRATION 9-8

Formula for straight-line method

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Illustration:

2017

€ 12,000

20%

€ 2,400

€ 2,400

€ 10,600

2018

12,000

20

2,400

4,800

8,200

2019

12,000

20

2,400

7,200

5,800

2020

12,000

20

2,400

9,600

3,400

2021

12,000

20

2,400

12,000

1,000

2017

Journal Entry

Depreciation Expense 2,400

Accumulated Depreciation 2,400

Illustration 9-9

Straight-line depreciation

schedule

STRAIGHT-LINE METHOD

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Assume the delivery truck was purchased on April 1, 2017.

Partial Year

Illustration:

STRAIGHT-LINE METHOD

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  • Companies estimate total units of activity to calculate depreciation cost per unit.
  • Expense varies based on units of activity.
  • Depreciable cost is cost less residual value.

UNITS-OF-ACTIVITY METHOD

Illustration 9-10

Formula for units-of-activity method

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Illustration:

2017

15,000

€ 0.12

€ 1,800

€ 1,800

€ 11,200

2018

30,000

0.12

3,600

5,400

7,600

2019

20,000

0.12

2,400

7,800

5,200

2020

25,000

0.12

3,000

10,800

2,200

2021

10,000

0.12

1,200

12,000

1,000

Depreciation Expense 1,800

Accumulated Depreciation 1,800

2017

Journal Entry

Illustration 9-11

Units-of-activity depreciation

schedule

UNITS-OF-ACTIVITY METHOD

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    • Accelerated method.
    • Decreasing annual depreciation expense over the asset’s useful life.
    • Twice the straight-line rate with Double-Declining-Balance.
    • Rate applied to book value.

DECLINING-BALANCE METHOD

Illustration 9-12

Formula for declining-balance method

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Illustration:

2017

€ 13,000

40%

€ 5,200

€ 5,200

€ 7,800

2018

7,800

40

3,120

8,320

4,680

2019

4,680

40

1,872

10,192

2,808

2020

2,808

40

1,123

11,315

1,685

2021

1,685

40

685*

12,000

1,000

* Computation of €674 (€1,685 x 40%) is adjusted to €685.

Depreciation Expense 5,200

Accumulated Depreciation 5,200

2017

Journal Entry

Illustration 9-13

Double-declining-balance depreciation schedule

DECLINING-BALANCE METHOD

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Illustration:

DECLINING-BALANCE METHOD

Partial Year

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ILLUSTRATION 9-14

Comparison of depreciation methods

Annual depreciation varies considerably among the methods, but total depreciation expense is the same (€12,000) for the five-year period.

COMPARISON OF METHODS

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ILLUSTRATION 9-15

Patterns of depreciation

COMPARISON OF METHODS

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    • IFRS requires component depreciation for plant assets.
    • Requires that any significant parts of a plant asset that have significantly different estimated useful lives should be separately depreciated.

COMPONENT DEPRECIATION

Depreciation

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Illustration: Lexure Construction builds an office building for HK$4,000,000. The building is estimated to have a 40-year useful life, however HK$320,000 of the cost of the building relates to personal property and HK$600,000 relates to land improvements. Because the personal property has a depreciable life of 5 years and the land improvements have a depreciable life of 10 years, Lexure must use component depreciation. Assuming that Lexure uses straight-line depreciation and no residual value, component depreciation for the first year of the office building is computed as follows.

COMPONENT DEPRECIATION

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Illustration 9-16

Component depreciation computation

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Tax laws often do not require corporate taxpayers to use the same depreciation method on the tax return that is used in preparing financial statements.

Many corporations use

    • straight-line in their financial statements to maximize net income.
    • an accelerated-depreciation method on their tax returns to minimize their income taxes.

DEPRECIATION AND INCOME TAXES

Depreciation

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  • Accounted for in the period of change and future periods (change in estimate).
  • No restatement of prior years’ depreciation expense.

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Depreciation

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Illustration: Arcadia HS, purchased equipment for €510,000 which was estimated to have a useful life of 10 years with a residual value of €10,000 at the end of that time. Depreciation has been recorded for 7 years on a straight-line basis. In 2020 (year 8), it is determined that the total estimated life should be 15 years with a residual value of €5,000 at the end of that time.

No Entry

Required

Questions:

    • What is the journal entry to correct prior years’ depreciation expense?
    • Calculate the depreciation expense for 2020.

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Equipment

€510,000

Property, Plant, and Equipment

Accumulated depreciation

350,000

Net book value (NBV)

€160,000

Balance Sheet (Dec. 31, 2019)

Equipment cost €510,000

Residual value - 10,000

Depreciable base 500,000

Useful life (original) 10 years

Annual depreciation € 50,000

x 7 years = €350,000

First, establish NBV at date of change in estimate.

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Net book value €160,000

Residual value (new) 5,000

Depreciable base 155,000

Useful life remaining 8 years

Annual depreciation € 19,375

Depreciation Expense calculation for 2020.

Depreciation Expense 19,375

Accumulated Depreciation 19,375

Journal entry for 2020 and future years.

REVISING PERIODIC DEPRECIATION

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When there is a change in estimated depreciation:

    • previous depreciation should be corrected.
    • current and future years’ depreciation should be revised.
    • only future years’ depreciation should be revised.
    • None of the above.

Question

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Original depreciation expense = [(£36,000 − £6,000) ÷ 6] = £5,000

Accumulated depreciation after 2 years = 2 × £5,000 = £10,000

Book value = £36,000 − £10,000 = £26,000

Book value after 2 years of depreciation £26,000

Less: New salvage value 2,000

Depreciable cost £24,000

Remaining useful life 8 years

Revised annual depreciation (£24,000 ÷ 8) £ 3,000

Chambers plc purchased a piece of equipment for £36,000. It estimated a 6-year life and £6,000 salvage value. Thus, straight-line depreciation was £5,000 per year [(£36,000 − £6,000) ÷ 6]. At the end of year three (before the depreciation adjustment), it estimated the new total life to be 10 years and the new salvage value to be £2,000. Compute the revised depreciation.

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IFRS allows companies to revalue plant assets to fair value at the reporting date.

If revaluation is used,

    • it must be applied to all assets in a class of assets.
    • assets experiencing rapid price changes must be revalued on an annual basis.

Revaluation of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Pernice Ltd. applies revaluation to equipment purchased on January 1, 2017, for HK$1,000,000. The equipment has a useful life of 5 years, and no residual value. Pernice makes the following entry to record depreciation for 2017, assuming straight-line depreciation.

Depreciation Expense 200,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 200,000

At the end of 2017, independent appraisers determine that the asset has a fair value of HK$850,000. The entry to record the revaluation is as follows.

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 200,000

Equipment 150,000

Revaluation Surplus 50,000

Revaluation of Plant Assets

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As indicated,

    • HK$850,000 is the new basis of the asset.
    • Depreciation expense of HK$200,000 in the income statement.
    • HK$50,000 in other comprehensive income.
    • Assuming no change in the total useful life, depreciation in year 2 will be HK$212,500 (HK$850,000 ÷ 4).

Illustration 9-18

Statement presentation of plant assets (equipment) and revaluation surplus

Revaluation of Plant Assets

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Illustration: Assume again that Pernice’s equipment has a carrying amount of HK$800,000 (HK$1,000,000 − HK$200,000). However, at the end of 2017, independent appraisers determine that the asset has a fair value of HK$775,000, which results in an impairment loss of HK$25,000 (HK$800,000 − HK$775,000). To record the equipment at fair value and to record this loss, Pernice makes the following entry.

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 200,000

Impairment Loss 25,000

Equipment 225,000

The impairment loss of HK$25,000 reduces net income.

Revaluation of Plant Assets

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Ordinary Repairs - expenditures to

maintain the operating efficiency and

productive life of the unit.

    • Debit – Maintenance and Repairs Expense.
    • Referred to as revenue expenditures.

Additions and Improvements - costs incurred to increase the operating efficiency, productive capacity, or useful life of a plant asset.

    • Debit - the plant asset affected.
    • Referred to as capital expenditures.

Expenditures During Useful Life

Learning Objective 3

Distinguish between

revenue and capital

expenditures, and explain the entries for each.

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The Missing Controls

Documentation procedures. The company’s accounting system was a disorganized collection of non-integrated systems, which resulted from a series of corporate acquisitions. Top management took advantage of this disorganization to conceal its fraudulent activities.

Total take: $7 billion

ANATOMY OF A FRAUD

Bernie Ebbers was the founder and CEO of the phone company WorldCom. The company engaged in a series of increasingly large, debt-financed acquisitions of other companies. These acquisitions made the company grow quickly, which made the stock price increase dramatically. However, because the acquired companies all had different accounting systems, WorldCom’s financial records were a mess. When WorldCom’s performance started to flatten out, Bernie coerced WorldCom’s accountants to engage in a number of fraudulent activities to make net income look better than it really was and thus prop up the stock price. One of these frauds involved treating $7 billion of line costs as capital expenditures. The line costs, which were rental fees paid to other phone companies to use their phone lines, had always been properly expensed in previous years. Capitalization delayed expense recognition to future periods and thus boosted current-period profits.

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The Missing Controls

Independent internal verification. A fraud of this size should have been detected by a routine comparison of the actual physical assets with the list of physical assets shown in the accounting records.

Total take: $7 billion

ANATOMY OF A FRAUD

Bernie Ebbers was the founder and CEO of the phone company WorldCom. The company engaged in a series of increasingly large, debt-financed acquisitions of other companies. These acquisitions made the company grow quickly, which made the stock price increase dramatically. However, because the acquired companies all had different accounting systems, WorldCom’s financial records were a mess. When WorldCom’s performance started to flatten out, Bernie coerced WorldCom’s accountants to engage in a number of fraudulent activities to make net income look better than it really was and thus prop up the stock price. One of these frauds involved treating $7 billion of line costs as capital expenditures. The line costs, which were rental fees paid to other phone companies to use their phone lines, had always been properly expensed in previous years. Capitalization delayed expense recognition to future periods and thus boosted current-period profits.

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Companies dispose of plant assets in three ways—Sale, Retirement, or Exchange.

Record depreciation up to the date of disposal.

Eliminate asset by (1) debiting Accumulated Depreciation, and (2) crediting the asset account.

Plant Asset Disposals

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Learning Objective 4

Explain how to account

for the disposal of a

plant asset.

Illustration 9-19

Methods of plant asset disposal

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RETIREMENT OF PLANT ASSETS

    • No cash is received.
    • Decrease (debit) Accumulated Depreciation for the full amount of depreciation taken over the life of the asset.
    • Decrease (credit) the asset account for the original cost of the asset.
    • Record any difference loss on disposal.

Plant Asset Disposals

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Illustration: Hobart ASA retires its computer printers, which cost €32,000. The accumulated depreciation on these printers is €32,000. Prepare the entry to record this retirement.

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 32,000

Equipment 32,000

Question: What happens if a fully depreciated plant asset is still useful to the company?

RETIREMENT OF PLANT ASSETS

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Illustration: Sunset A/S discards delivery equipment that cost €18,000 and has accumulated depreciation of €14,000. The journal entry is?

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 14,000

Loss on Disposal of Plant Assets 4,000

Equipment 18,000

Companies report a loss on disposal in the “Other income and expense” section of the income statement.

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RETIREMENT OF PLANT ASSETS

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Compare the book value of the asset with the proceeds received from the sale.

      • If proceeds exceed the book value, a gain on disposal occurs.
      • If proceeds are less than the book value, a loss on disposal occurs.

SALE OF PLANT ASSETS

Plant Asset Disposals

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Illustration: On July 1, 2017, Wright Company sells office furniture for €16,000 cash. The office furniture originally cost €60,000. As of January 1, 2017, it had accumulated depreciation of €41,000. Depreciation for the first six months of 2017 is €8,000. Prepare the journal entry to record depreciation expense up to the date of sale (July 1).

GAIN ON SALE

SALE OF PLANT ASSETS

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Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 8,000

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Illustration: Wright records the sale on July 1 as follows.

Illustration 9-20

Computation of gain on disposal

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SALE OF PLANT ASSETS

Cash 16,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 49,000

Equipment 60,000

Gain on Disposal of Plant Assets 5,000

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Illustration 9-21

Computation of loss on disposal

July 1

Illustration: Assume that instead of selling the office furniture for €16,000, Wright sells it for €9,000 on July 1.

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SALE OF PLANT ASSETS

Cash 9,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 49,000

Loss on Disposal of Plant Assets 2,000

Equipment 60,000

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Overland Trucking has an old truck that cost £30,000 and has accumulated depreciation of £16,000. Assume two different situations:

  1. Overland sells the old truck for £17,000 cash.
  2. Overland sells the old truck for £10,000 cash.

What entry should Overland use to record scenario 1?

Cash 17,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 16,000

Equipment 30,000

Gain on Disposal of Plant Assets 3,000

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Overland Trucking has an old truck that cost £30,000 and has accumulated depreciation of £16,000. Assume two different situations:

  1. Overland sells the old truck for £17,000 cash.
  2. Overland sells the old truck for £10,000 cash.

What entry should Overland use to record scenario 2?

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Cash 10,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 16,000

Loss on Disposal of Plant Assets 4,000

Equipment 30,000

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Natural resources consist of standing timber

and resources extracted from the ground, such

as oil, gas, and minerals.

IFRS defines extractive industries as those businesses involved in finding and removing natural resources located in or near the earth’s crust.

Standing timber is considered a biological asset under IFRS. In the years before they are harvested, the recorded value of biological assets is adjusted to fair value each period.

Extractable Natural Resources

Learning Objective 5

Compute periodic

depletion of

extractable natural

resources.

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Acquisition cost of an extractable natural resource is the

    • price needed to acquire the resource and
    • prepare it for its intended use.

Depletion is the allocation of the cost to expense in a rational and systematic manner over the resource’s useful life.

    • Depletion is to natural resources as depreciation is to plant assets.
    • Companies generally use units-of-activity method.
    • Depletion generally is a function of the units extracted.

Extractable Natural Resources

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Illustration: Lane Coal Company invests HK$50 million in a mine estimated to have 10 million tons of coal and no residual value. In the first year, Lane extracts and sells 250,000 tons of coal. Lane computes the depletion expense as follows:

Extractable Natural Resources

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HK$5.00 per ton x 250,000 tons =

HK$1,250,000 annual depletion

Illustration 9-22

Computation of depletion cost per unit

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Illustration: Lane Coal Company invests HK$50 million in a mine estimated to have 10 million tons of coal and no residual value. In the first year, Lane extracts and sells 250,000 tons of coal. Lane records the depletion as follows:

Inventory (coal) 1,250,000

Accumulated Depletion 1,250,000

Journal entry:

Extractable Natural Resources

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Intangible assets are rights, privileges, and competitive advantages that result from ownership of long-lived assets that do not possess physical substance.

  • Patents
  • Copyrights
  • Trademarks
  • Trade Names
  • Goodwill
  • Franchises
  • Leases

Limited life or indefinite life.

Common types of intangibles:

Intangible Assets

Learning Objective 6

Explain the basic

issues related to

accounting for

intangible assets.

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Limited-Life Intangibles:

    • Amortize to expense.
    • Credit asset account.

Indefinite-Life Intangibles:

    • No amortization.

Accounting for Intangible Assets

Similar to property, plant, and equipment, IFRS permits revaluation of intangible assets to fair value, except for goodwill.

Companies classify Amortization Expense as an operating expense in the income statement.

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PATENTS

  • Exclusive right to manufacture, sell, or otherwise control an invention for a specified number of years from the date of the grant.
  • Capitalize costs of purchasing a patent and amortize over its legal life or its useful life, whichever is shorter.
  • Expense any Research and Development costs in developing a patent.
  • Legal fees incurred successfully defending a patent are capitalized to Patents account.

Accounting for Intangible Assets

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Illustration: National Labs purchases a patent at a cost of NT$720,000. National estimates the useful life of the patent to be eight years. National records the annual amortization for the ended December 31 as follows.

Amortization Expense 90,000

Patents 90,000

Cost NT$720,000

Useful life ÷ 8 years

Annual expense NT$ 90,000

Dec. 31

PATENTS

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COPYRIGHTS

  • Give the owner the exclusive right to reproduce and sell an artistic or published work.
  • Granted for the life of the creator plus a specified number of years, commonly 70 years.
  • Capitalize costs of acquiring and defending it.
  • Amortized to expense over useful life.

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TRADEMARKS AND TRADE NAMES

    • Word, phrase, jingle, or symbol that identifies a particular enterprise or product.
      • Wheaties, Monopoly, Kleenex, Coca-Cola, Big Mac, and Jetta.
    • Legal protection for specified number of years, commonly 20 years. Protection may be renewal indefinitely.
    • Capitalize cost of acquisition.
    • No amortization.

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FRANCHISES AND LICENSES

    • Contractual arrangement between a franchisor and a franchisee.
      • BP (GBR), Subway (USA), and Europcar are franchises.
    • Franchise (or license) with a limited-life should be amortized to expense over its useful life.
    • Franchise (or license) with an indefinite life is not amortized.

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GOODWILL

  • Includes exceptional management, desirable location, good customer relations, skilled employees, high-quality products, etc.
  • Only recorded when an entire business is purchased.
  • Goodwill is recorded as the excess of cost over the fair value of the net assets acquired.
  • Internally created goodwill should not be capitalized.
  • Not amortized.

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Global Insight

Should Companies Write Up Goodwill?

SoftBank Corp. (JPN) at one time was the country’s largest Internet company. It boosted the profit margin of its mobile phone unit from 3.2% to 11.2% through what appeared to some as accounting tricks. What did it do? It wrote down the value of its mobile phone-unit assets by half. This would normally result in a huge loss. But rather than take a loss, the company wrote up goodwill by the same amount. How did this move increase earnings? The assets were being depreciated over 10 years, but the company amortizes goodwill over 20 years. (Amortization of goodwill was allowed under the accounting standards it followed at that time.) While the new treatment did not break any rules, the company was criticized by investors for not providing sufficient justification or a detailed explanation for the sudden shift in policy.

Source: Andrew Morse and Yukari Iwatani Kane, “SoftBank’s Accounting Shift Raises Eyebrows,” Wall Street Journal (August 28, 2007), p. C1.

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Expenditures that may lead to

    • patents,
    • copyrights,
    • new processes, and
    • new products.

All R & D costs are expensed when incurred.

Research and Development Costs

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Illustration: Laser Scanner Ltd. spent NT$1 million on

research and NT$2 million on development of new products. Of the NT$2 million in development costs NT$400,000 was incurred prior to technological feasibility and NT$1,600,000 was incurred after technological feasibility had been demonstrated. The company would record these costs as follows.

Research and Development Expense 1,400,000

Development Costs 1,600,000

Cash 3,000,000

Research and Development Costs

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Which of the following statements is false?

    • If an intangible asset has a finite life, it should be amortized.
    • The amortization period of an intangible asset can exceed 20 years.
    • Goodwill is recorded only when a business is purchased.
    • Development costs are always expensed when incurred.

Question

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1. The allocation of the cost of an extractable natural resource to expense in a rational and systematic manner.

2. Rights, privileges, and competitive advantages that result from the ownership of long-lived assets that do not possess physical substance.

3. An exclusive right granted by a government to reproduce and sell an artistic or published work.

Depletion

Intangible Assets

Copyrights

Illustration: Identify the term most directly associated with each statement.

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Illustration: Identify the term most directly associated with each statement.

4. A right to sell certain products or services or to use certain trademarks or trade names within a designated geographic area.

5. Costs incurred by a company that often lead to patents or new products. These costs must be expensed as incurred.

Franchises

Research Costs

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Statement Presentation

Learning Objective 7

Indicate how plant

assets, natural

resources, and

intangible assets

are reported.

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Presentation of property, plant, and equipment, and intangible assets

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Each Korean won invested in assets produced ₩1.65 in sales for LG. If a company is using its assets efficiently, each investment in assets will create a high amount of sales.

Statement Analysis

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Asset turnover formula and computation

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$460,000 + $540,000

2

$420,000 ÷

= .84

Solution

The asset turnover is computed as follows.

Net Sales ÷ Average Total Assets = Asset Turnover

Paramour Company reported net income of $180,000, net sales of $420,000, and had total assets of $460,000 on January 1, 2017, and total assets on December 31, 2017, of $540,000. Determine Paramour’s asset turnover for 2017.

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  • Ordinarily, companies record a gain or

loss on the exchange of plant assets.

  • Most exchanges have commercial substance.
  • Commercial substance - if the future cash flows change as a result of the exchange.

APPENDIX 9A

Exchange of Plant Assets

Learning Objective 8

Explain how to account for the exchange of plant

assets.

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Cost of used trucks €64,000

Less: Accumulated depreciation 22,000

Book value 42,000

Fair market value of used trucks 26,000

Loss on disposal €16,000

Fair market value of used trucks €26,000

Cash paid 17,000

Cost of semi-truck €43,000

Illustration: Roland NV exchanged used trucks (cost €64,000 less €22,000 accumulated depreciation) plus cash of €17,000 for a new semi-truck. The used trucks had a fair market value of €26,000.

Loss Treatment

Illustration 9A-1

Cost of semi-truck

Illustration 9A-2

Computation of loss on disposal

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Equipment (new) 43,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment 22,000

Loss on Disposal of Plant Assets 16,000

Equipment (old) 64,000

Cash 17,000

Illustration: Roland NV exchanged used trucks (cost €64,000 less €22,000 accumulated depreciation) plus cash of €17,000 for a new semi-truck. The old trucks had a fair market value of €26,000.

Prepare the entry to record the exchange of assets by Roland NV.

Loss Treatment

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Illustration: Mark Express trades its old delivery equipment (cost €40,000 less €28,000 accumulated depreciation) for new delivery equipment. The old equipment had a fair market value of €19,000. Mark also paid €3,000.

Cost of old equipment €40,000

Less: Accumulated depreciation 28,000

Book value 12,000

Fair market value of old equipment 19,000

Gain on disposal € 7,000

Fair market value of old equipment €19,000

Cash paid 3,000

Cost of new equipment €22,000

Gain Treatment

Illustration 9A-3

Cost of new delivery equipment

Illustration 9A-4

Computation of gain

on disposal

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Illustration: Mark Express trades its old delivery equipment (cost €40,000 less €28,000 accumulated depreciation) for new delivery equipment. The old equipment had a fair market value of €19,000. Mark also paid €3,000.

Prepare the entry to record the exchange of assets by Mark Express.

Gain Treatment

Equipment (new) 22,000

Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment (old) 28,000

Equipment (old) 40,000

Gain on Disposal of Plant Assets 7,000

Cash 3,000

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In exchanges of assets in which the exchange has commercial substance:

    • neither gains nor losses are recognized immediately.
    • gains, but not losses, are recognized immediately.
    • losses, but not gains, are recognized immediately.
    • both gains and losses are recognized immediately.

Question

Exchange of Plant Assets

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Key Points

Similarities

    • The definition for plant assets for both GAAP and IFRS is essentially the same.
    • GAAP, like IFRS, capitalizes all direct costs in self-constructed assets such as raw materials and labor. IFRS does not address the capitalization of fixed overhead although in practice these costs are generally capitalized.
    • GAAP also views depreciation as an allocation of cost over an asset’s useful life. GAAP permits the same depreciation methods (e.g., straight-line, accelerated, and units-of-activity) as IFRS.
    • The accounting for subsequent expenditures, such as ordinary repairs and additions, are essentially the same under GAAP and IFRS.

A Look at U.S. GAAP

Learning Objective 9

Compare the accounting for long-lived assets under IFRS and U.S. GAAP.

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Key Points

Differences

    • Under GAAP, an item of property, plant, and equipment with multiple parts is generally depreciated over the useful life of the total asset. Thus, component depreciation is generally not used. However, GAAP permits companies to use component depreciation.
    • GAAP uses the term salvage value, rather than residual value, to refer to an owner’s estimate of an asset’s value at the end of its useful life for that owner.
    • IFRS allows companies to revalue plant assets to fair value at the reporting date.

A Look at U.S. GAAP

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Key Points

Differences

    • As in IFRS, under GAAP the costs associated with research and development are segregated into the two components. Costs in the research phase are always expensed under both GAAP and IFRS. Under IFRS, however, costs in the development phase are capitalized as Development Costs once technological feasibility is achieved. Under GAAP, all development costs are expensed as incurred.
    • IFRS permits revaluation of intangible assets (except for goodwill). GAAP prohibits revaluation of intangible assets.

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Key Points

Differences

    • IFRS requires an impairment test at each reporting date for plant assets and intangibles and records an impairment if the asset’s carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. The recoverable amount is the higher of the asset’s fair value less costs to sell or its value-in-use. Value-in-use is the future cash flows to be derived from the particular asset, discounted to present value. Under GAAP, impairment loss is measured as the excess of the carrying amount over the asset’s fair value.
    • IFRS allows reversal of impairment losses when there has been a change in economic conditions or in the expected use of the asset. Under GAAP, impairment losses cannot be reversed for assets to be held and used; the impairment loss results in a new cost basis for the asset. IFRS and GAAP are similar in the accounting for impairments of assets held for disposal.

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Looking to the Future

With respect to revaluations, as part of the conceptual framework project, the Boards will examine the measurement bases used in accounting. It is too early to say whether a converged conceptual framework will recommend fair value measurement (and revaluation accounting) for plant assets and intangibles. However, this is likely to be one of the more contentious issues, given the longstanding use of historical cost as a measurement basis in GAAP. The IASB and FASB have identified a project that would consider expanded recognition of internally generated intangible assets. IFRS permits more recognition of intangibles compared to GAAP. Thus, it will be challenging to develop converged standards for intangible assets, given the long-standing prohibition on capitalizing internally generated intangible assets and research and development costs in GAAP.

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GAAP Self-Test Questions

Which of the following statements is correct?

    • Both IFRS and GAAP permit revaluation of property, plant, and equipment and intangible assets (except for goodwill).
    • IFRS permits revaluation of property, plant, and equipment and intangible assets (except for goodwill).
    • Both IFRS and GAAP permit revaluation of property, plant, and equipment but not intangible assets.
    • GAAP permits revaluation of property, plant, and equipment but not intangible assets.

A Look at IFRS

A Look at U.S. GAAP

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GAAP Self-Test Questions

Research and development costs are:

    • expensed under GAAP.
    • expensed under IFRS.
    • expensed under both GAAP and IFRS.
    • None of the above.

A Look at IFRS

A Look at U.S. GAAP

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GAAP Self-Test Questions

Value-in-use is defined as:

    • net realizable value.
    • fair value.
    • future cash flows discounted to present value.
    • total future undiscounted cash flows.

A Look at IFRS

A Look at U.S. GAAP

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