In: Accounting
Sandhill Holdings Inc., a publicly listed company in Canada,
ventured into construction of a mega-shopping mall in Edmonton,
which is rated as the largest shopping mall in North America. The
company’s board of directors, after much market research, decided
that instead of selling the shopping mall to a local investor who
had approached them several times with excellent offers that he
steadily increased during the year of construction, the company
would hold this property for the purposes of capital appreciation
and earning rental income from mall tenants. Sandhill Holdings
retained the services of a real estate company to find and attract
many important retailers to rent space in the shopping mall, and
within months of completion at the end of 2017, the shopping mall
was fully occupied.
According to the company’s accounting department, the total
construction cost of the shopping mall was $50 million. The company
used an independent appraiser to determine the mall’s fair value
annually. According to the appraisal, the fair values of the
shopping mall at December 31, 2017, and at each subsequent year end
were:
2017 | $50 million | |
2018 | $60 million | |
2019 | $65 million | |
2020 | $61 million |
The independent appraiser felt that the useful life of the shopping
mall was 20 years and its residual value was $8 million.
Note that the mall’s rental income and expenses would be the same
and thus can be omitted from the analysis for this exercise.
Prepare the necessary journal entries for 2018, 2019, and 2020 if it decides to treat the shopping mall as an investment property under IAS 40: Use fair value model. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the 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. Record journal entries in the order presented in the problem.)
Date |
Account Titles and Explanation |
Debit |
Credit |
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Prepare the necessary journal entries for 2018, 2019, and 2020
if it decides to treat the shopping mall as an investment property
under IAS 40: Use Cost model. (Credit account titles
are automatically indented when the 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. Record journal entries
in the order presented in the problem.)
Date |
Account Titles and Explanation |
Debit |
Credit |
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