#2. You have a client that is considering trading machinery with another company. Although the machines are different from each other, you believe that an assessment of expected cash flows on the exchanged assets will indicate the exchange lacks commercial substance. Your client would prefer that the exchange be deemed to have commercial substance, to allow them to record gains. Here are the facts:
Your Client Other Company
Original cost $150,000 $100,000
Accumulated depreciation 80,000 40,000
Fair value 100,000 80,000
Cash received (paid) 20,000 (20,000)
Record the entry on your client’s books assuming the exchange LACKS commercial substance. Then discuss what the financial statement effects would be of treating the exchange as having, versus lacking, commercial substance.
Answer :
Record the entry on Client A's books assuming the exchange has commercial substance.
If the exchange has commercial substance For client A, the total market value
received is 80,000 plus 20,000 cash received. And the total book value given is
150,000- 80,000=70,000. So there will be 30,000 gain realized.
Dr ($) Cr($)
Machinery B ................................................................................80,000
Accumulated Depreciation—Machinery A................................... 80,000
Cash ............................................................................................. 20,000
Machinery A .........................................................150,000
Gain on disposal A ..................................................30,000
The exchange of machinery has been recorded on fair value
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