PART III — PLANT ASSETS: SHORT PROBLEMS (28 points)
Instructions: Complete the requirements specified for each of the following independent
situations.
1. Jumpstart Deliveries acquired a truck at a cost of $64,000 on January 1, 2014. The truck is
expected to have a salvage value of $8,000 at the end of its 4-year useful life. Jumpstart
uses the straight-line method. Prepare the journal entry to record annual depreciation for
2015.
2. DynaChrome Bumpers bought two acres of land with an old office building on it that was
deemed unusable. The cost was $480,000 of which DynaChrome paid $80,000 in cash as a
down payment and signed a 7% mortgage for the remainder. DynaChrome immediately had
the old building razed at a net cost of $8,700 and sold the salvaged materials for $2,200.
Attorneys were paid $1,100 in connection with the purchase. The architect’s fee for drawing
building plans for the new building cost $6,800. DynaChrome paid $3,100 in connection with
permits and zoning variances necessary prior to construction of the new building.
DynaChrome paid the contractor $1,420,000 for construction of the new building, along with
$42,000 for a parking lot and necessary walkways and driveways.
A. At what amount should the land be recorded?
B. At what amount should the new office building be recorded?
3. On July 1, 2014, Winslow Enterprises sold equipment with an original cost of $86,000 for
$33,000. The equipment was purchased January 1, 2011, and was depreciated using the
straight-line method over a five-year useful life with a $9,000 salvage value. Prepare the
journal entry to record the sale of the equipment.
4. Sonic Company bought machinery on January 1, 2009, at a cost of $90,000. The machinery
had an estimated life of 8 years and salvage value of $16,000. On January 1, 2014, Sonic
estimates that the machinery will have a life of only 2 more years from January 1, 2014, and
the salvage value is now estimated to be $4,000. Sonic uses straight-line depreciation.
Compute the annual depreciation expense for 2014.