Exam 9: Reporting and Analyzing Long-Lived Assets

The following information is provided for Nguyen Company and Northwest Corporation. What is Nguyen's asset turnover ratio for 2014?

Schrock Company purchases a new delivery van for $60,000. The sales taxes are $4,500. The logo of the company is painted on the side of the van for $1,200. The van's annual license is $120. The van undergoes safety testing for $220. What does Schrock record as the cost of the new van?

Carpino Company purchased equipment and these costs were incurred: What amount should be recorded as the cost of the equipment?

The cost of a long-term asset is expensed

Rains Company purchased equipment on January 1 at a list price of $75,000, with credit terms 2/10, n/30. Payment was made within the discount period. Rains paid $3,750 sales tax on the equipment, and paid installation charges of $1,320. Prior to installation, Rains paid $3,000 to pour a concrete slab on which to place the equipment. What is the total cost of the new equipment?

Cost allocation of an intangible asset is referred to as

Whyte Clinic purchases land for $280,000 cash. The clinic assumes $3,000 in property taxes due on the land. The title and attorney fees totaled $2,000. The clinic had the land graded for $4,400. What amount does Whyte Clinic record as the cost for the land?

IFRS allows companies to revalue plant assets to fair value. When an asset has increased in value, where is the account "Revaluation Surplus" reported?

A patent

The book value of a plant asset is the difference between the

An asset was purchased for ¥200,000. It had an estimated residual value of ¥40,000 and an estimated useful life of 10 years. After 5 years of use, the estimated residual value is revised to ¥32,000 but the estimated useful life is unchanged. Assuming straight-line depreciation, depreciation expense in year 6 would be

A change in the estimated useful life of equipment requires

Hopson Company incurred $600,000 of research and development costs in its laboratory to develop a new product. It spent $80,000 in legal fees for a patent granted on January 2, 2014. On July 31, 2014, Hopson paid $60,000 for legal fees in a successful defense of the patent. What is the total amount that should be debited to Patents through July 31, 2012?

The declining-balance method of depreciation is called an accelerated depreciation method because it depreciates an asset in a shorter period of time than the asset's useful life.

(Ethics) Physician Reference Service (PRS) provides services to physicians including research assistance, diagnosis coding, and medical practice software including an advanced medical record cross-referencing system. PRS is aggressive in monitoring other firms' offerings and ensuring that its services are comparable to all others. Because of its need to stay abreast of new product offerings, PRS spends a lot of money sending professionals to trade shows. In addition, PRS has agreements with several clients whereby the client requests a presentation of a competitor's services. A PRS employee poses as an employee of the client's office and attends the presentation, obtaining as much data and sample information as possible. The cost of the travel and attending presentations is charged to Product Development and expensed during the current year. In April of this year, PRS began selling a software product substitute before the competitor's software was released. The competitor, Compu-Med, sued for copyright infringement and won. PRS had to withdraw its product from the market and pay $1.5 million in damages. PRS immediately negotiated an agreement with Compu-Med to sell Compu-Med's product (since it was prohibited from offering its own version for five years). This agreement cost an additional $1.3 million, but it allowed PRS to continue to offer a full line of services. PRS' accountant, Kelly Hall, initially recorded the cash payments as "Loss from Lawsuit" and "Product Development," respectively. However, Gilbert Brown, the controller, instructed Kelly to create an intangible asset, named "Goodwill," and charge both costs to this account. "We're protected from another lawsuit as long as this agreement is in effect," he says. "It's about as close to goodwill as we'll ever get from our competitors. We might as well amortize the cost rather than take the full hit to income, anyway." Required: 1. What are the ethical issues? 2. What should Kelly do?

Which depreciation method is most frequently used in businesses today?