Question

1. June 30, 2020    A building that Big Company had purchased on January 1, 2016, for $ 10,000 was exchanged for another building owned by Other Company. Big Company exchanged its building and $1,000 cash for Other Company’s building. Big’s building had a fair value of $ 9,500 at the time of the exchange. Straight-line depreciation on the building with a 40-year useful life and no R.V. has been properly charged from Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2019. Both parcels of land on which the warehouses were located were equal in value, and had a fair value equal to book value. Big Company’s building contained a manufacturing operation. Other Company’s building was an office building.

2. Dec. 30, 2020      Machinery with a cost of $ 120 and accumulated depreciation through December 31, 2019, of $ 90 was exchanged, along with $ 15 cash, for a parcel of land with a fair market value of $ 44. Straight-line depreciation had been used for the machine. The machine had a 12-year useful life, and was 9 years-old as at Dec. 31, 2019.

3. Big Company replaced a roof on a building that it purchased in 2008. (12 years old as at Dec. 31, 2020.) The building cost $400,000 in 2008, and had an estimated life of 40 years, with no residual value. The new roof costs $25,020 to install. Big Company estimated that prices for goods and services have increased by 80% since 2008 . The roof component was not separately identified in the company accounts, but, of course, was included in the building asset at that time.

Required: Prepare ALL journal entries for 2020 related to the three situations above. Each situation may require more than one entry.

Answer 1

This solution comprises journal entries of three cases.