A company purchased land with a building for a lump-sum cost of $2,570,000 ($500,000 paid in cash and thebalance on a long-term note). It was estimated that the land and building had market values of $600,000 and$2,400,000, respectively.
Determine the cost to be apportioned to the land and to the building.
Solution:
Lumpsum cost of land & building = $2,570,000
Market value of land = $600,000
Market value of Building = $2,400,000
Cost to be approtioned to land = Total cost * Market value of land / Combined market value of land & Building
= $2,570,000 * $600,000 / $3,000,000 = $514,000
Cost to be approtioned to Building = Total cost * Market value of Building / Combined market value of land & Building
$2,570,000 * $2,400,000 / $3,000,000 = $2,056,000
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