Audit of Property, Plant & Equipment
Audit of Property, Plant & Equipment
Audit of Property, Plant & Equipment
Audit Procedures
5. Examine lease contracts to determine whether leases are properly classified as finance or
operating and determine whether the proper accounting has been performed and appropriate
disclosures have been made.
6. Examine support for significant changes to repairs, maintenance and other expense accounts
to determine if they should be capitalized to property, plant, and equipment.
8. Review minutes of meetings, legal documents, and other evidence for evidence of liens,
pledges, and restrictions on property, plant and equipment.
11. Reconcile payments to government for taxes and registrations with recorded assets.
12. Ascertain that fully depreciated assets still in use are not further depreciated.
13. Determine and discuss with appropriate official, the adequacy of insurance coverage, if any.
14. Determine that the property, plant and equipment that are being held for disposal are carried
at appropriate amounts.
15. Determine the propriety of financial statement presentation and adequacy of disclosures.
5 Eye Openers
1. Define property, plant and equipment.
4. What are the ways to acquire property, plant and equipment. Discuss
the accounting procedures of each ways.
7. Define depreciation.
11. Explain the effect of change in the useful life of depreciable asset.
Land $ 800,000
Building 2,400,000
Machinery and Equipment 1,600,000
Below is a summary of Royal Company's cash outflow between the acquisition date and
December 29, the date when it first occupied the building:
Repairs to building
Construction of bases for machinery to be installed later
Driveways and parking lots
Remodeling of office space in building, including new partition and walls
Special assessment by the city government on land
On December 27, Royal company paid cash for machinery, $560,000 (subject to a 2% discount)
and freight on machinery of $21,000.
Required:
Compute the total cost of each of the following:
a. Land
b. Building
c. Machinery and Equipment
Problem 5-2
Correcting Entries for PP
1. Flash Hornet Company acquired land, buildings, and equipment from a financially distressed
company, Barnet, Corp. for a lump sum price of $2,800,000. On the acquisition date, Barloft,
Inc.'s assets had the following book and fair values:
Book Value
Land $ 800,000 $
Buildings 1,000,000
Equipment 1,200,000
Flash Hornet Company decided to take a conservative position by recording the lower of the
two values for each PPE item acquired. The following entry was made:
Land $ 600,000
Buildings 1,000,000
Equipment 1,200,000
Cash
2. Thompson Company purchased factory equipment by making a $200,000 cash down payment
and signing a 3-year $300,000, 10% note payable. The acquisition was recorded
as follows:
3. Tuba Company purchased store equipment for $800,000, terms 2/10, n/30. The
company took the discount and made the following entry when it paid for the acquisition:
4. Nuke Company recently received at of cost land from its shareholder. The land's fair
value is $1,350,000. No entry was made to record the land because it had no cost.
5. Maze Company constructed a building at a total cost of $43,000,000. The building could
have been purchased for $45,000,000. The company's controller made the following
entry:
Building $ 45,000,000
Cash
Profit on construction
Required:
Prepare the necessary correcting entry for each acquisition.
Problem 5-3
Acquisition of Equipment on a Deferred Payment Basi
Required:
Compute:
1. Acquisition cost of the equipment?
2. Discount to be recognized on note payable on January 1, 2016. Entry to record the acquisition.
3. Interest expense to be recognized in 2016.
4. Carrying value of the note payable at December 31, 2017.
Problem 5-4
Journal Entries for PPE Acquisition
a. The national government gives the company a large tract of land. The condition attached to this
government grant is that Golden Egg company is to construct a plant facility on the site to
provide employment opportunities to its resident. The fair value of the land is determined to be
$4,000,000.
b. 150,000 ordinary shares with par value of $20 per share are issued in exchange for land and
building. The fair values of the land and building acquired are $5,400,000 and $18,900,000,
respectively. The company's stock is currently selling at $175 per share.
c. Still included in the materials, direct labor, and overhead accounts are amounts that are
properly chargeable to the machinery account. These represent costs of a machine
constructed by Golden Egg company during the year. These costs are:
Material used
Factory supplies used
Direct labor incurred
Incremental overhead (over regular) arising form construction of
machine (excluding factory supplies used)
Fixed overhead rate applied to regular manufacturing operations 60% of direct lab
Cost of similar machine if it had been purchased from outside dealer
Required:
Prepare journal entries to record the preceding transactions.
Problem 5-5
Correcting Improper PPE Entrie
Banjo Corporation was organized in June 2016. In your audit of the company's books, you find the
following land, buildings and equipment account:
Your analysis of this account and other accounts disclosed the following additional information:
● Banjo Corporation paid $60,000 for the demolition of the old building. It sold the scrap for
$36,000 and credited the proceeds to miscellaneous income.
● Banjo Corporation executives did not participate in the construction of the new building.
● The property tax was for the period July 1 - December 31, 2016.
Required:
Compute:
1. The amount to be reported as organization expenses in Banjo Corporation's 2016 income
statement.
2. Cost of Banjo Corporation's land.
3. Cost of the new building.
Problem 5-6
Exchange Transaction
Colton Company is contemplating to exchange a machine used in its operations. Colton Company
received the following offers from interested companies.
3. Omni Company offered to exchange a similar machine, but wanted $120,000 in addition to
Colton Company machine.
In addition, Colton Company inquired from Sullivan Corp., a dealer in machines. Colton Company
is to pay $1,305,000 cash plus the trade in of its old machine in order to acquire a new unit.
Presented below are the machine's cost, accumulated depreciation, and fair value:
Required:
For each of the above exchange situations, prepare the journal entries to record the exchange
on the books of each company. Assume that all the exchange situations have commercial
substance.
Problem 5-7
Acquisition and Disposition of Equipmen
You are engage to audit the financial statements of Chronicle Company for the year ended December
31, 2016. You gathered the following information pertaining to the company's equipment and
accumulated depreciation accounts
EQUIPMENT
1. The company depreciates equipment at 10 percent per annum. The oldest equipment owned is
seven years old as of December 31, 2016.
2. The following adjusted balances appeared on your last year's working papers:
Equipment $ 446,000
Accumulated depreciation 224,000
3. Machine No. 6 was purchased on March 1, 2009 at a cost of $30,000 and was sold on September
1, 2016, for $9,000.
4. Included in charges to the repairs expense account was an invoice covering installation of Machine
No. 12 in the amount of $2,500.
5. It is the company's practice to take a full year's depreciation in the year of acquisition and none
in the year of disposition.
Required:
1. What is the gain (loss) on the sale of Machine No. 6?
2. What is the equipment account balance on December 31, 2016?
3. What is the total depreciation expense on equipment for the year ended December 31,
2016?
4. What adjusting entry should be prepared in connection with the sale of Machine No. 6 on
September 1, 2016?
5. What adjusting entry should be prepared on December 31, 2016, to correct the amount of
depreciation recorded on company's books?
Problem 5-8
Equipment Acquired under Finance Leas
(Lessee has a Purchase Option
The following data are abstracted from the present value tables:
Present value of 1 for 5 periods at 10% 0.62092
Present value of an annuity due for 5 periods at 10% 4.16986
Present value of an ordinary annuity for 5 periods at 10% 3.79079
Required:
1. Compute :
a. The amount to be capitalized as an asset for the lease of the machine.
b. The amount of interest expense to be recognized for the year ended
December 31, 2016.
c. Depreciation that should be provided on the leased equipment for the year
ended December 31, 2015.
2. Prepare journal entry to record the lease payment on December 31, 2015.
3. Assume the purchase option is exercised at the end of the lease. The actual
fair market value of the machine at the end of the lease is $285,000. On the
date the purchase option is exercised, the undiscounted sum of future cash
flows expected from the machine is $375,000, what is the journal entry
to record the exercise of the option?
Problem 5-9
Revaluation of PP
The statement of financial position of Angelic Company on December 31, 2016, showed the following
property, plant and equipment items after recording depreciation:
Building $ 6,000,000
Accumulated depreciation (2,000,000)
Angelic Company adopted the revaluation model for the valuation of its PPE. This has resulted in
the recognition in prior periods of an asset revaluation surplus for the building of $280,000. On
December 31, 2016, an independent appraiser assessed the fair value of the building to be
$3,200,000 and the vehicle to be $1,800,000. The building and the motor vehicle have remaining
useful lives of 25 years and 4 years, respectively, with zero residual value. The company uses
the straight-line depreciation method. Ignore income tax implications.
Required:
1. Prepare journal entry to record the revaluation of the building.
2. Compute for the amount of depreciation for 2016.
Problem 5-10
Different Depreciation Metho
Your audit of Lyra Company's property, plant and equipment disclosed the following data at December
31, 2017:
ASSETS
J E R
You noted that the client's policy on depreciation is that no depreciation is recorded in the year an
asset is purchased, and a full year depreciation is provided in the year an asset is disposed of.
1. On May 5, Asset Jay was sold for $26,000 cash. The company's bookkeeper recorded this
retirement in the following manner in the cash receipts journal:
Cash $ 26,000
Asset J
2. On December 31, it was determined that Asset E had been used 2,100 hours during 2017.
3. On December 31, before computing depreciation expense on Asset R, the management of Lyra
Company decided the useful life remaining from January 1, 2017, was 10 years.
4. On December 31, it was discovered that a plant asset in 2016 had been expensed completely
in the year. This asset costs $44,000 and has a useful life of 10 years and no savage value.
Management has decided to use the double-declining balance method for this asset, which can
be referred to as "Asset C".
Required:
Prepare the necessary adjusting journal entries for the year 2017. Record the appropriate depreciation
expense on the above mentioned items.
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$ 210,000
270,000
244,000
322,000
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on date, Barloft,
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600,000
1,400,000
1,200,000
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$ 2,800,000
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$ 200,000
300,000
30,000
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5 problems
Problem 5-1
Acquis
On March 1, 2016, Royal company acquired the plant assets of Inacco Corporation in exchange
for 25,000 ordinary share ($100 par value), which had a fair value per share of $180 on the date
of the purchase of the property. The property had the following appraised value:
Land
Building
Machinery and Equipment
Below is a summary of Royal Company's cash outflow between the acquisition date and
December 29, the date when it first occupied the building:
Repairs to building
Construction of bases for machinery to be installed later
Driveways and parking lots
Remodeling of office space in building, including new partition and walls
Special assessment by the city government on land
On December 27, Royal company paid cash for machinery, $560,000 (subject to a 2% discount)
and freight on machinery of $21,000.
Required:
Compute the total cost of each of the following:
a. Land
Land 800,000
Special assessment by the city government on land 36,000
Total Cost 836,000
b. Building
Building Cost $ 2,400,000
Repairs to building $ 210,000
Driveways and parking lots $ 244,000
Remodeling of office space in building, including new partition and walls $ 322,000
Total Cost $ 3,176,000
Problem 5-2
1. Flash Hornet Company acquired land, buildings, and equipment from a financially distressed
company, Barnet, Corp. for a lump sum price of $2,800,000. On the acquisition date, Barloft,
Inc.'s assets had the following book and fair values:
Flash Hornet Company decided to take a conservative position by recording the lower of the
two values for each PPE item acquired. The following entry was made:
Land
Buildings $ 600,000
Equipment 1,000,000
Cash 1,200,000
2. Thompson Company purchased factory equipment by making a $200,000 cash down payment
and signing a 3-year $300,000, 10% note payable. The acquisition was recorded
as follows:
3. Tuba Company purchased store equipment for $800,000, terms 2/10, n/30. The
company took the discount and made the following entry when it paid for the acquisition:
4. Nuke Company recently received at of cost land from its shareholder. The land's fair
value is $1,350,000. No entry was made to record the land because it had no cost.
5. Maze Company constructed a building at a total cost of $43,000,000. The building could
have been purchased for $45,000,000. The company's controller made the following
entry:
Building $ 45,000,000
Cash
Profit on construction
Required:
Prepare the necessary correcting entry for each acquisition.
1. Building 1,225,000
Equipment 1,050,000
Land 525,000
Cash 2,800,000
4. Building 1,350,000
Deffered grand revenue 1,350,000
5. Bulding 43,000,000
Deffered grand revenue 43,000,000
Problem 5-3
Acquisition of Equipment
Required:
Compute:
1. Acquisition cost of the equipment?
The acquisition of The Equipment of 2,370,000
2. Discount to be recognized on note payable on January 1, 2016. Entry to record the acquisition.
Cost of Equipment 2,370,000
Down Payment (300,000)
Notes Payable 2,070,000
FV of note payable 3,104,160
Discount on Notes Payable, Jan 1, 2016 (1,034,160)
Equipment 2,370,000
Discount on Notes 1,034,160
Notes Payable 3,104,160
Cash 300,000
Problem 5-4
Journal Entries fo
b. 150,000 ordinary shares with par value of $20 per share are issued in exchange for land and
building. The fair values of the land and building acquired are $5,400,000 and $18,900,000,
respectively. The company's stock is currently selling at $175 per share.
c. Still included in the materials, direct labor, and overhead accounts are amounts that are
properly chargeable to the machinery account. These represent costs of a machine
constructed by Golden Egg company during the year. These costs are:
Fixed overhead rate applied to regular manufacturing operations 60% of direct labor
Cost of similar machine if it had been purchased from outside dealer 1,320,000
Required:
Prepare journal entries to record the preceding transactions.
a. Land 4,000,000
Deffered Income
4,000,000
b. Land 5,400,000
Building 18,900,000
Ordinary shares (150.000 shares x 20 per share) 3,000,000
Share premium 21,300,000
c. Machinery 1,203,000
Materials 375,000
Direct labor 450,000
*Factory Overhead control 378,000
Problem 5-5
Correcting Im
Banjo Corporation was organized in June 2016. In your audit of the company's books, you find the
following land, buildings and equipment account:
Your analysis of this account and other accounts disclosed the following additional information:
● Banjo Corporation paid $60,000 for the demolition of the old building. It sold the scrap for
$36,000 and credited the proceeds to miscellaneous income.
● Banjo Corporation executives did not participate in the construction of the new building.
● The property tax was for the period July 1 - December 31, 2016.
Required:
Compute:
1. The amount to be reported as organization expenses in Banjo Corporation's 2016 income
statement.
Organization Fees 60,000
Corporate organization costs 90,000
Stock promotion costs ($50x6.000 ordinary shares) 300,000
Total Organization expenses 450,000
Problem 5-6
Exch
Colton Company is contemplating to exchange a machine used in its operations. Colton Company
received the following offers from interested companies.
3. Omni Company offered to exchange a similar machine, but wanted $120,000 in addition to
Colton Company machine.
In addition, Colton Company inquired from Sullivan Corp., a dealer in machines. Colton Company
is to pay $1,305,000 cash plus the trade in of its old machine in order to acquire a new unit.
Presented below are the machine's cost, accumulated depreciation, and fair value:
Required:
For each of the above exchange situations, prepare the journal entries to record the exchange
on the books of each company. Assume that all the exchange situations have commercial
substance.
A. Calton Company
Cash 345,000
Machinery - new ( 1,380,000 -345,000 ) 1,035,000
Accumulated depreciation 750,000
Loss on exchange ( 1,650,000 BV - 1,380,000 FV ) 270,000
Machinery -Old 2,400,000
Aye Company
Machinery ( 1,035,000-345,000 ) 1,380,000
Accumulated depreciation 675,000
Loss on exchange ( 1,125,000 BV -1,035,000 FV ) 90,000
Cash 345,000
Machinery -old 1,800,000
B. Colton Company
Machinery - new 1,380,000
Accumulated Depreciation 750,000
Loss on excahenge ( 1,650,000 BV -1,380,000 FV ) 270,000
Machinery -Old 2,400,000
Betsy Company
Machinery - new 1.380.000 1,380,000
Accumulated Depreciation 1.065.000 1,065,000
Gain on exchange( 1,380,000 FV- 1,140,000 BV ) 240,000
Machinery -Old 2.205.000 2,205,000
C. Colton Company
Machinery - new ( 1,380,000+120.000 ) 1,500,000
Accumulated Depreciation 750,000
Loss on excahenge ( 1,650,000 BV - 1,380,00 FV ) 270,000
Machinery -Old 2,400,000
Cash 120,000
Omny Company
Cash 120,000
Machinery - new ( 1,500,000-120,000 ) 1,380,000
Accumulated Depreciation 1,125,000
Gain on exchange( 1,500,000 FV-1,275,000 BV ) 225,000
Machinery -Old 2,400,000
D. Colton Company
Machinery - new ( 1,380,000 + 1,395,000 ) 2,775,000
Accumulated Depreciation 750,000
Loss on excahenge ( 1,650,000 BV - 1,380,000 ) 270,000
Cash 1,395,000
Machinery -Old 2,400,000
Problem 5-7
Acquisition and Disposition of Equ
You are engage to audit the financial statements of Chronicle Company for the year ended December
31, 2016. You gathered the following information pertaining to the company's equipment and
accumulated depreciation accounts
EQUIPMENT
$ 271,400
2. The following adjusted balances appeared on your last year's working papers:
Equipment
Accumulated depreciation
3. Machine No. 6 was purchased on March 1, 2009 at a cost of $30,000 and was sold on September
1, 2016, for $9,000.
4. Included in charges to the repairs expense account was an invoice covering installation of Machine
No. 12 in the amount of $2,500.
5. It is the company's practice to take a full year's depreciation in the year of acquisition and none
in the year of disposition.
Required:
1. What is the gain (loss) on the sale of Machine No. 6?
Net proceds (9,000-1,000) 8,000
Cost 30,000
Accumulated depreciation (30.000 x10% x7 ) 21,000 9,000
Loss on sale (1,000)
3. What is the total depreciation expense on equipment for the year ended December 31,
2016? (454,500x10%) 45,450
4. What adjusting entry should be prepared in connection with the sale of Machine No. 6 on
September 1, 2016?
5. What adjusting entry should be prepared on December 31, 2016, to correct the amount of
depreciation recorded on company's books?
Cash 9,000
Equipment 1,000
Equipment 9,000
Cash 1,000
Cash 9,000
Accum. Depreciation 21,000
Loss on sale 1,000
Equipment 30,000
Cash 1,000
Equipment 2,500
Repairs expense 2,500
Problem 5-8
Equipment Acquired un
(Lessee has
Honeybee Company has a long-standing policy of acquiring company equipment by leasing. On
January 1, 2015, the company entered into a lease for new machine. The lease contracts provides
that annual payments will be made for 5 years. The payments are to be made in advance on
December 31, of each year. At the end of the 5-yearr period, Honeybee Company may purchase the'
machine. The estimated economic life of the machine is 12 years. Honeybee Company uses the
calendar year reporting purposes and depreciates its other equipment using the straight-line method.
The following data are abstracted from the present value tables:
Required:
1. Compute :
a. The amount to be capitalized as an asset for the lease of the machine.
Present Value of lease payments (165,000 x 4.169) 688,027
Present Value of purchase option price (75,000 x 0.629) 46,569
Amount to be capitalized as an asset for the lease of the machine 734,596
b. The amount of interest expense to be recognized for the year ended
December 31, 2016.
Interest
Date Payment Expense
Principal Lease Liability
2. Prepare journal entry to record the lease payment on December 31, 2015.
Leases Liability 108,040 (165,000-56,960)
Interest Expense 56,960 (569,596x10%)
Cash 165,000
3. Assume the purchase option is exercised at the end of the lease. The actual
fair market value of the machine at the end of the lease is $285,000. On the
date the purchase option is exercised, the undiscounted sum of future cash
flows expected from the machine is $375,000, what is the journal entry
to record the exercise of the option?
Leases Liability 68,181 (211,982-143,802)
Interest Expense 6,819
Cash 75,000
Problem 5-9
The statement of financial position of Angelic Company on December 31, 2016, showed the following
property, plant and equipment items after recording depreciation:
Building
Accumulated depreciation
Motor vehicle
Accumulated depreciation
Angelic Company adopted the revaluation model for the valuation of its PPE. This has resulted in
the recognition in prior periods of an asset revaluation surplus for the building of $280,000. On
December 31, 2016, an independent appraiser assessed the fair value of the building to be
$3,200,000 and the vehicle to be $1,800,000. The building and the motor vehicle have remaining
useful lives of 25 years and 4 years, respectively, with zero residual value. The company uses
the straight-line depreciation method. Ignore income tax implications.
Required:
1. Prepare journal entry to record the revaluation of the building.
Carrying
Amount Decrease
Value
Building 6,000,000 4,800,000 1,200,000
Accumulated Depreciation (2,000,000) 1,600,000 (400,000)
Total 4,000,000 6,400,000 800,000
Problem 5-10
Different D
Your audit of Lyra Company's property, plant and equipment disclosed the following data at December
31, 2017:
ASSETS
J E
You noted that the client's policy on depreciation is that no depreciation is recorded in the year an
asset is purchased, and a full year depreciation is provided in the year an asset is disposed of.
1. On May 5, Asset Jay was sold for $26,000 cash. The company's bookkeeper recorded this
retirement in the following manner in the cash receipts journal:
Cash $ 26,000
Asset J $ 26,000
2. On December 31, it was determined that Asset E had been used 2,100 hours during 2017.
3. On December 31, before computing depreciation expense on Asset R, the management of Lyra
Company decided the useful life remaining from January 1, 2017, was 10 years.
4. On December 31, it was discovered that a plant asset in 2016 had been expensed completely
in the year. This asset costs $44,000 and has a useful life of 10 years and no savage value.
Management has decided to use the double-declining balance method for this asset, which can
be referred to as "Asset C".
Required:
Prepare the necessary adjusting journal entries for the year 2017. Record the appropriate depreciation
expense on the above mentioned items.
a. Depreciation expense - Asset J 5,800
Accumulated depreciation Asset J 5,800
([70,000-6,200]x5/55)
d. Asset R
cost 160,000
less accum. Depreciation 30,000
([160,000-10,000]x3/15)
carriying value 130,000
less residul value 10,000
remaining depreciable amount 120,000
divide by remaining life 10
depreciation asset R 12,000
e. Asset C 44,000
Retained Earnings 44,000
$ 800,000
2,400,000
1,600,000
$ 210,000
270,000
244,000
322,000
36,000
Correcting Entries for PPE
$ 2,800,000
$ 200,000
300,000
30,000
$ 784,000
16,000
$ 43,000,000
2,000,000
cquisition of Equipment on a Deferred Payment Basis
Journal Entries for PPE Acquisitions
Correcting Improper PPE Entries
Credit
Exchange Transactions
Omni Sullivan
$ 2,400,000 $ 1,950,000
1,125,000 0
1,500,000 2,775,000
n and Disposition of Equipment
$ 9,000
474,000
$ 483,000
$ 224,000
Depreciation 47,400
$ 271,400
$ 446,000
224,000
(4)
(5)
$ 6,000,000
(2,000,000) $ 4,000,000
$ 2,400,000
(800,000) 1,600,000
Different Depreciation Method
S
R I
$ 160,000 $ 160,000
2013 2015
15 years 10 years
$ 10,000 $ 10,000
double-
straight declining-
line balance
$ 30,000 $ 32,000