Prepare government-wide financial statements


The City of Virginia maintains its books so as to prepare fund accounting statements and prepares worksheet adjustments in order to prepare government-wide financial statements. Required: You are to prepare, in journal form, worksheet adjustments for each of the following situations.

A. General fixed assets, as of the beginning of the year, which had not been recorded, were as follows:

Land $ 55,000,000
Buildings 700,000,000
Improvements other than buildings 245,000,000
Equipment 105,000,000
Accumulated depreciation, capital assets 202,400,000

B. During the year, expenditures for capital outlays amounted to $11,200,000. Of that amount, $7,800,000 was for buildings; $1,550,000 was for improvements other than buildings, and the remainder was for land.

C. The capital outlay expenditures outlined in (B) were completed at the end of the year (no depreciation until next year). For purposes of financial statement presentation, all capital assets are depreciated using the straight-line method, with no estimated salvage value. Estimated lives are as follows: buildings, 50 years; improvements other than buildings, 20 years; equipment, 10 years.

D. Equipment with a cost of $ 41,500 and accumulated depreciation at the time of sale of $16,600 was sold for $45,000.

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