Chapter 10 Property, Plant, and Equipment and Intangible Assets: Acquisition and Disposition
Questions for Review of Key Topics
Question 10-1
The difference between tangible and intangible long-lived, revenue-producing assets is that intangible assets lack physical substance and they primarily refer to the ownership of rights.
Question 10-2
The cost of property, plant, and equipment and intangible assets includes the purchase price (less any discounts received from the seller), transportation costs paid by the buyer to transport the asset to the location in which it will be used, expenditures for installation, testing, legal fees to establish title, and any other costs of bringing the asset to its condition and
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Assets qualifying for capitalization exclude inventories that are routinely manufactured in large quantities on a repetitive basis and assets that are in use or ready for their intended purpose. Only assets that are constructed as discrete projects qualify for interest capitalization.
Answers to Questions (continued)
Question 10-14
Average accumulated expenditures for a period is an approximation of the average amount of debt the company would have had outstanding if it borrowed all of the funds necessary for construction. If construction expenditures are incurred equally throughout the period, the average accumulated expenditures for the period can be estimated by adding the accumulated expenditures at the beginning of the period to the accumulated expenditures at the end of the period and dividing by two. If expenditures on the project are unequal throughout the period, individual expenditures, perhaps expenditures grouped by month, should be weighted by the amount of time outstanding until the end of the construction period or the end of the company’s fiscal year, whichever comes first.
Question 10-15
Applying the specific interest method, the interest rate on any construction related debt is used up to the amount of the construction debt and any excess average accumulated expenditures is multiplied by a weighted-average interest
Then the Partnership DISTRIBUTES to Partner A the property contributed by Partner B, only THEN will you have tax consequences. The general rule is that there are NO tax consequences when a Partner receives NON-cash Property.
1. Why does Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, say that experiences might bring more satisfaction than durable goods? Do you agree or disagree?
are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be changed by any decision made
Classification: Posting of sales transaction to proper account: tested when accuracy tested; focus on unusual items
In April of 1979, a U.S. court finds the Beatle 's former manager _________ guilty of tax evasion and he is sentenced to serve two months of a two-year sentence in prison.
3. If a cost is identical under each alternative under consideration within a given decision context, the cost is considered:
According to IAS 16, The cost of an item of property, plant and equipment comprises, its purchase price, including
1) Complete summary of the case study that identifies the key problems and issues, provides background information, relevant facts, the solution employed, and the results achieved.
Access the "Litigation" section of the SEC's website at www.sec.gov/litigation.shtml. Click on "Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases." Click on "AAER-3234" filed January 20, 2011. Read the release and the related SEC Complaint. Summarize the release and complaint in 2-3 pages (12-point, double spaced).
These costs involve the purchase of land, building or remodeling, hiring, licensing, amenities, and many other things.
uses budgeted fleet hours to allocate variable manufacturing overhead. The following information pertains to the company 's manufacturing overhead data:
1. Incremental cash flows are ultimately the relevant cash flows to be used in project analysis. It is the difference between the cash flows the firm will have if it implements the project, and the cash flows the firm will have if it rejects the project. Although they are a cash expense, interest expenses are not included in project cash flows. We discount a projects cash flows by using its weighted average cost of capital (WACC), which already includes the cost of debt. Therefore, we do not include interest expenses in cash flows because it would essentially be counting them twice.
In general, intangible assets are assets that are not physical in nature. Corporate intellectual property (items such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, business methodologies), goodwill and brand recognition are all common intangible assets in today's marketplace.
There are two types of intangible assets, those that have been purchased by organizations and secondly
Now the basis for all future transactions relating to this building would also be at its cost, i.e. $12 million. For example: The depreciation would be charged on $12 million and not on $15 million. Similarly when the asset is sold in future, the profit or loss on sale would be based on the cost price actually paid for it. Since the original or