In: Accounting
Howarth Manufacturing Company purchased equipment on June 30,
2017, at a cost of $105,000. The residual value of the equipment
was estimated to be $9,000 at the end of a five-year life. The
equipment was sold on March 31, 2021, for $27,000. Howarth uses the
straight-line depreciation method for all of its plant and
equipment. Partial-year depreciation is calculated based on the
number of months the asset is in service.
Required:
1. Prepare the journal entry to record the
sale.
2. Assuming that Howarth had instead used the
double-declining-balance method, prepare the journal entry to
record the sale.
| Answer 1 |
| Journal Entry |
| Dr | Cr | |
| Cash Account | 27000 | |
| Equipment Account | 105000 | |
| Accumulated Depreciation | 72000 | |
| Losson sales of fixed assets Account | 6000 |
| Notes 1. | If there is a loss on sale |
| Debit cash for the amount Received | |
| Debit all accumulated depreciation | |
| Credit the fixxed assets | |
| and debit the loss on sales of fixed Assets | |
| Accumulated Depreciation = (Cost of asset- resiual value)/Total Life period/ Total period used | |
| Accumulated Depreciation =( 105000-9000)/60*45= 72000 |
| Answer 2 |
| Journal Entry |
| Dr | Cr | |
| Cash Account | 27000 | |
| Equipment Account | 105000 | |
| Accumulated Depreciation | 88670.4 | |
| Gain on sales of fixed assets Account | 10670.4 |
| Calculation Of Doble Declaining Depreciation: | A | B | C | D = (A*B*C/12 months) |
| Year | Begining Amount | Double Declaining rate | Used Months | Doble Declaining depreciation |
| 2017 | 105000 | 40% | 6 | 21000 |
| 2018 | 84000 | 40% | 12 | 33600 |
| 2019 | 50400 | 40% | 12 | 20160 |
| 2020 | 30240 | 40% | 12 | 12096 |
| 2021 | 18144 | 40% | 3 | 1814.4 |
| Total | 88670.4 |
| Notes 2. | Doble Declaining rate = 2 x Straight line Depreciation Percentage |
| Doble Declaining rate = 2 x 20 =40% | |
| Straight line Depreciation Percentage =( Depreciation under straight line method per year/assets Depreciable value ) x100 | |
| Straight line Depreciation Percentage= 19200/96000*100 =20% | |
| Assets Depreciable value = Cot of Assets- residual Vale | |
| Assets Depreciable value =105000-9000= 96000 |