Higgins Company purchased a patent from Monroe Limited for $203,400 on January 1, 2020. The patent has a remaining useful life of six years. Required a) Prepare the journal entry to record the purchase. Do not enter dollar signs or commas in the input boxes. Date Account Title and Explanation Debit Credit Jan Patents 203400 1 Cash 203400 To record the purchase of patents for cash b) Prepare the journal entry to record amortization for one year on December 31, 2020. The company does not use the half-year rule. Assume the straight- line method of depreciation is used. Round your answers to the nearest whole number. Date Account Title and Explanation Debit Credit Dec Amortization Expense 31 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts + To record amortization for the year

Higgins Company purchased a patent from Monroe Limited for $203,400 on January 1, 2020. The patent has a remaining useful life of six years. Required a) Prepare the journal entry to record the purchase. Do not enter dollar signs or commas in the input boxes. Date Account Title and Explanation Debit Credit Jan Patents 203400 1 Cash 203400 To record the purchase of patents for cash b) Prepare the journal entry to record amortization for one year on December 31, 2020. The company does not use the half-year rule. Assume the straight- line method of depreciation is used. Round your answers to the nearest whole number. Date Account Title and Explanation Debit Credit Dec Amortization Expense 31 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts + To record amortization for the year

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Chapter12: Intangibles

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Problem 5RE: Mystic Pizza Company purchased a patent from Prime Pizza Plus on January 1, 2019, for 72,000. The...

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In examining Samson Manufacturing Companys books, you find on the December 31, 2019, balance sheet the item, Costs of patents, 308,440. Referring to the ledger accounts, you note the following items regarding one patent acquired in 2016; There are no credits in the account, and the company has not recorded any amortization for any of the patents. There are three other parents issued in 2013, 2015, and 2016; all were developed by the staff of Samson. The patented articles are presently very marketable, but are estimated to be in demand only for the next few years. Required: Discuss the accounting issues related to the items included in the Patent account.
During 2019, Ryel Companys controller asked you to prepare correcting journal entries for the following three situations: 1. Machine A was purchased for 50,000 on January 1, 2014. Straight-line depreciation has been recorded for 5 years, and the Accumulated Depreciation account has a balance of 25,000. The estimated residual value remains at 5,000, but the service life is now estimated to be 1 year longer than estimated originally. 2. Machine B was purchased for 40,000 on January 1, 2017. It had an estimated residual value of 5,000 and an estimated service life of 10 years. it has been depreciated under the double-declining-balance method for 2 years. Now, at the beginning of the third year, Ryel has decided to change to the straight-line method. 3. Machine C was purchased for 20,000 on January 1, 2018, Double-declining-balance depreciation has been recorded for 1 year. The estimated residual value of the machine is 2,000 and the estimated service life is 5 years. The computation of the depreciation erroneously included the estimated residual value. Required: Prepare any necessary correcting journal entries for each situation. Also prepare the journal entry necessary for each situation to record depreciation expense for 2019.
Mystic Pizza Company purchased a patent from Prime Pizza Plus on January 1, 2019, for 72,000. The patent has a remaining legal life of 9 years. Prepare the journal entries to record the acquisition and the amortization for 2019, assuming Mystic Pizza amortizes its patents using the straight-line method over the life of the asset.
At the beginning of 2020, Holden Companys controller asked you to prepare correcting entries for the following three situations: 1. Machine X was purchased for 100,000 on January 1, 2015. Straight-line depreciation has been recorded for 5 years, and the Accumulated Depreciation account has a balance of 45,000. The estimated residual value remains at 10,000, but the service life is now estimated to be 1 year longer than originally estimated. 2. Machine Y was purchased for 40,000 on January 1, 2018. It had an estimated residual value of 4,000 and an estimated service life of 8 years. It has been depreciated under the sum-of-the-years-digits method for 2 years. Now, the company has decided to change to the straight-line method. 3. Machine Z was purchased for 80,000 on January 1, 2019. Double-declining-balance depreciation has been recorded for 1 year. The estimated residual value is 8,000 and the estimated service life is 5 years. The computation of the depreciation erroneously included the estimated residual value. Required: Prepare any necessary correcting journal entries for each situation. Also prepare the journal entry for each situation to record the depreciation for 2020. Ignore income taxes.
Lee Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated on January 3, 2018. The corporations financial statements for its first years operations were not examined by a CPA. You have been engaged to examine the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019, and your examination is substantially completed. Lees trial balance at December 31, 2019, appears as follows: The following information relates to accounts that may vet require adjustment: 1. Patents for Lees manufacturing process were acquired January 2, 2019, at a cost of 68,000. An additional 17,000 was spent in December 2019 to improve machinery covered by the patents and charged to the Patent account. Depreciation on fixed assets has been properly recorded for 2019 in accordance with Lees practice which provides a full years depreciation for property on hand June 30 and no depreciation otherwise. Lee uses the straight-line method fix all depreciation and amortization and amortizes its patents over their legal life. 2. On January 3. 2018, Lee purchased licensing Agreement No. 1, which was believed to have an indefinite useful life. The balance in the licensing Agreement No. 1 account includes its purchase price of 48,000 and costs of 2,000 related to the acquisition. On January 1, 2019, Lee purchased licensing Agreement No. 2, which has a life expectancy of 10 years. The balance in the Licensing Agreement No. 2 account includes its 48,000 purchase price and 2,000 in acquisition costs, but it has been reduced by a credit of 1,000 for the advance collection of 2020 revenue from the agreement. In late December 2018, an explosion caused a permanent 60% reduction in the expected revenue-producing value of licensing Agreement No. 1, and in January 2020 a flood caused additional damage that rendered the agreement worthless. 3. The balance in the Goodwill account includes (a) 8,000 paid December 30, 2018, for newspaper advertising for the next 4 years following the payment, and (b) legal costs of 16,000 incurred for Lees incorporation on January 3, 2018. 4. The Leasehold Improvements account includes (a) the 15,000 cost of improvements with a total estimated useful life of 12 years, which Lee, as tenant, made to leased premises in January 2018; (b) movable assembly line equipment costing 8,500 that was installed in the leased premises in December 2019; and (c) real estate taxes of 2,500 paid by Lee in 2019, which under the terms of the lease should have been paid by the land-lord. Lee paid its rent in full during 2019. A 10-year nonrenewable lease was signed January 3, 2018, fix the leased building that Lee used in manufacturing operations. 5. The balance in the Organization Costs account includes costs incurred during the organizational period. Required: Prepare a worksheet (spreadsheet) to adjust accounts that require adjustment and prepare financial statements. Formal adjusting journal entries and financial statements are not required. No intangible assets are impaired at the end of 2019. Ignore income taxes.
Refer to the information for Cox Inc. above. What amount would Cox record as depreciation expense for 2019 if the units-of-production method were used ( Note: Round your answer to the nearest dollar)? a. $179,400 b. $184,000 c. $218,400 d. $224,000
Dinnell Company owns the following assets: In the year of acquisition and retirement of an asset, Dinnell records depreciation expense for one-half year. During 2020, Asset A was sold for 7,000. Required: Prepare the journal entries to record depreciation on each asset for 2017 through 2020 and the sale of Asset A. Round all answers to the nearest dollar.
Hathaway Company purchased a copying machine for 8,700 on October 1, 2019. The machines residual value was 500 and its expected service life was 5 years. Hathaway computes depreciation expense to the nearest whole month. Required: 1. Compute depredation expense (rounded to the nearest dollar) for 2019 and 2020 using the: a. straight-line method b. sum-of-the-years-digits method c. double-declining-balance method 2. Next Level Which method produces the highest book value at the end of 2020? 3. Next Level Which method produces the highest charge to income in 2020? 4. Next Level Over the life of the asset, which method produces the greatest amount of depreciation expense?
Company is considering purchasing EKC Company. EKCs balance sheet at December 31, 2019, is as follows: At December 31, 2019, Elm discovered the following about EKC: a. No allowance for uncollectible accounts has been established. An allowance of 5,000 is considered appropriate. b. The LIFO inventory method has been used. The FIFO inventory method would be used if EKC were purchased by Elm. The FIFO inventors-valuation of the December 31, 2019, ending inventors-would be 180,000. c. The fair value of the property, plant, and equipment (net) is 730,000. d. The company has an unrecorded patent that is worth 120,000. e. The book values of the current liabilities and bonds payable are the same as their market values. Required: 1. Compute the value of the goodwill if Elm pays 1,350,000 for EKC. 2. Next Level Why would the book value of a companys identifiable net assets differ from its market value?