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Exercise 10-6 Plant acquisitions for selected companies are as follows. 1. Sage

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Question

Exercise 10-6

Plant acquisitions for selected companies are as follows.

1. Sage Industries Inc. acquired land, buildings, and equipment from a bankrupt company, Torres Co., for a lump-sum price of $910,000. At the time of purchase, Torres’s assets had the following book and appraisal values.

Book Values

Appraisal Values


To be conservative, the company decided to take the lower of the two values for each asset acquired. The following entry was made.


2. Pronghorn Enterprises purchased store equipment by making a $2,600 cash down payment and signing a 1-year, $29,900, 10% note payable. The purchase was recorded as follows.


3. Stellar Company purchased office equipment for $19,200, terms 2/10, n/30. Because the company intended to take the discount, it made no entry until it paid for the acquisition. The entry was:


4. Pearl Inc. recently received at zero cost land from the Village of Cardassia as an inducement to locate its business in the Village. The appraised value of the land is $35,100. The company made no entry to record the land because it had no cost basis.

5. Martinez Company built a warehouse for $780,000. It could have purchased the building for $962,000. The controller made the following entry.


Prepare the entry that should have been made at the date of each acquisition. (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal palces, e.g. 0.56487 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,275. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

No.

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

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2.

3.

4.

5.

Book Values

Appraisal Values

Land $260,000 $195,000 Buildings 325,000 455,000 Equipment 390,000 390,000

Explanation / Answer

Journal

No. Account Name Debit Credit 1. Buildings (910000/ 1040 x 195) $170625 Equipment (910000/ 1040 x 455) 398125 Land (910000/ 1040 x 390) 341250 Cash $910000 2. Store equipment 32500 Note payable 29900 Cash 2600 3. Office equipment 19200 Accounts payable 19200 4. Land 35100 Contribution revenue 35100 5. Warehouse 780000 Cash 780000