Question:
1. On July 1st, Harding Construction purchases a bulldozer for $228,000. The equipment has a 8 year life with a residual value of $16,000. Harding uses straight-line depreciation.
(a) Calculate the depreciation expense and provide the journal entry for the first year ending December 31st.
(b) Calculate the third year%u2019s depreciation expense and provide the journal entry for the third year ending December 31st.
(c) Calculate the last year%u2019s depreciation expense and provide the journal entry for the last year.
2. On July 1st, Hartford Construction purchases a bulldozer for $228,000. The equipment has a 9 year life with a residual value of $16,000. Hartford uses units-of-production method depreciation and the bulldozer is expected to yield 26,500 operating hours.
(a) Calculate the depreciation expense per hour of operation.
(b) The bulldozer is operated 1,250 hours in the first year, 2,755 hours in the second year, and 1,225 hours in the third year of operations. Journalize the depreciation expense for each year.
3. On June 1, 2014, Aaron Company purchased equipment at a cost of $120,000 that has a depreciable cost of $90,000 and an estimated useful life of 3 years and 30,000 hours.
Using straight line depreciation, prepare the journal entry to record depreciation expense for (a) the first year, (b) the second year and (c) the last year.