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283) On January 1, 2018, Granite State Hospital leased medical equipment from Forest Corp.
which had purchased the equipment at a cost of $2,874,474. The lease agreement specifies six
annual payments of $600,000 beginning January 1, 2018, the beginning of the lease, and at each
December 31 thereafter through 2022. The six-year lease term ending December 31, 2023 (a year
after the final payment), is equal to the estimated useful life of the equipment. The contract
specifies that lease payments for each year will increase on the basis of the increase in the
Consumer Price Index for the year just ended. Thus, the first payment will be $600,000, and the
second and subsequent payments might be different. The CPI at the beginning of the lease is 120.
Forest routinely acquires medical equipment for lease to other firms. The interest rate in these
financing arrangements is 10%.
Required:
Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar amounts.
1. Prepare the appropriate journal entries for Granite State and Forest to record the lease at
its beginning.
2. Assuming the CPI is 124 at that time, prepare the appropriate journal entries for Granite
State at December 31, 2018, related to the lease.