1. On January 2, 2020, Collins Company purchased a delivery
truck for $45,000 cash. The truck had an estimated useful life of
seven years and an estimated residual value of $3,000.
Straight-line depreciation was used. Assuming the transactions have
commercial substance, prepare the journal entries to record the
disposition of the truck on September 1, 2019, under each of the
following assumptions:
(a) The truck and $55,000 cash were exchanged for equipment
that had a fair value of $70,000.
(b) The truck and $40,000 cash were exchanged for a new
delivery truck that had a fair value of
$70,000.
(c) If you were a new accountant in a company and you were
asked to determine how best to depreciate a new machine they just
bought, how would you determine the best method? What information
would be useful to you in determining the best method?