Computing the revised annual depreciation


Problem 1: Presented below are two independent situations.

(a) On March 3, Lisa Ceja Appliances sells $700,000 of its receivables to Horatio

Factors Inc Horatio Factors assesses a finance charge of 3% of the amount of receivables sold. Prepare the entry on Lisa Ceja Appliances' books to record the sale of the receivables

(b) On May 10, Worthy Company sold merchandise for $4,000 and accepted the customer's Firstar Bank MasterCard. At the end of the day, the Firstar Bank MasterCard receipts were deposited in the company's bank account. Firstar Bank charges a 4% service charge for credit card sales. Prepare the entry on Worthy Company's books to record the sale of merchandise.

Problem 2: Lindy Rig, the new controller of Bellingham Company, has reviewed the expected use-ful lives and salvage values of selected depreciable assets at the beginning of 2002. Her findings are as follows.

                                                                       
                                                 Accumulated     Useful Life
Type of            Date                    Depreciation      in Years                Salvage Value
Asset           Acquired     Cost           1/1/02         Old Proposed          Old    Proposed

Building         1/1/96    $800,000    $114,000        40       50           $40,000    $70.000
Warehouse    1/1/99     100,000        11,400         25       20              5,000       3,600

All assets are depreciated by the straight-line method. Bellingham Company uses a calendar year in preparing annual financial statement& After discussion, management has agreed to at-cept Lindy's proposed changes.

Instructions:

(a) Compute the revised annual depreciation on each asset in 2002. (Show computations.) 

(b) Prepare the entry (or entries) to record depreciation on the building in 2002.

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