Test Bank for Intermediate Accounting, Sixteenth Edition
37. Each year a company has been investing an increasingly greater amount in machinery.
Since there is a large number of small items with relatively similar useful lives, the
company has been applying straight-line depreciation at a uniform rate to the machinery
as a group. The ratio of this group’s total accumulated depreciation to the total cost of the
machinery has been steadily increasing and now stands at .75 to 1.00. The most likely
explanation for this increasing ratio is the
a. company should have been using one of the accelerated methods of depreciation.
b. estimated average life of the machinery is less than the actual average useful life.
c. estimated average life of the machinery is greater than the actual average useful life.
d. company has been retiring fully depreciated machinery that should have remained in
service.
38. For the composite method, the composite
a. rate is the total cost divided by the total annual depreciation.
b. rate is the total annual depreciation divided by the total depreciable cost.
c. life is the total cost divided by the total annual depreciation.
d. life is the total depreciable cost divided by the total annual depreciation.
P39. Worley Truck Rental uses the group depreciation method for its fleet of trucks. When it
retires one of its trucks and receives cash from a salvage company, the carrying value of
property, plant, and equipment will be decreased by the
a. original cost of the truck.
b. original cost of the truck less the cash proceeds.
c. cash proceeds received.
d. cash proceeds received and original cost of the truck.
S40. Composite or group depreciation is a depreciation system whereby
a. the years of useful life of the various assets in the group are added together and the
total divided by the number of items.
b. the cost of individual units within an asset group is charged to expense in the year a
unit is retired from service.
c. a straight-line rate is computed by dividing the total of the annual depreciation
expense for all assets in the group by the total cost of the assets.
d. the original cost of all items in a given group or class of assets is retained in the asset
account and the cost of replacements is charged to expense when they are acquired.
S41. When depreciation is computed for partial periods under a decreasing charge depreciation
method, it is necessary to
a. charge a full year’s depreciation to the year of acquisition.
b. determine depreciation expense for the full year and then prorate the expense
between the two periods involved.
c. use the straight-line method for the year in which the asset is sold or otherwise
disposed of.
d. use a salvage value equal to the first year’s partial depreciation charge.