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Diaz Company was organized on January 1. During the first year of operations, the following plant asset expenditures and receipts were recorded in random order. Debits $ 4,000 700,000 5,000 1. Cost of filling and grading the land 2. Full payment to building contractor 3. Real estate taxes on land paid for the current year 4. Cost of real estate purchased as a plant site (land $100,000 and building $45,000) 5. Excavation costs for new building 6. Architect's fees on building plans 7. Accrued real estate taxes paid at time of purchase of real estate 8. Cost of parking lots and driveways 9. Cost of demolishing building to make land suitable for construction of new building 145,000 35,000 10,000 2,000 14,000 15,000 $930,000 Credits 10. Proceeds from salvage of demolished building $ 3,500 Instructions Analyze the foregoing transactions using the following column headings. Insert the number of each transaction in the Item space, and insert the amounts in the appropriate columns. For amounts entered in the Other Accounts column, also indicate the account titles. P10-2A In recent years, Juresic Transportation purchased three used buses. Because of fre- quent turnover in the accounting department, a different accountant selected the depreciation method for each bus, and various methods were selected. Information concerning the buses is summarized below. Salvage Useful Life Bus Acquired Cost Value in Years Depreciation Method 1 1/1/08 $ 96,000 $ 6,000 5 Straight-line 2 1/1/08 120,000 10,000 4 Declining-balance 3 1/1/09 80,000 8,000 5 Units-of-activity For the declining-balance method, the company uses the double-declining rate. For the units-of- activity method, total miles are expected to be 120,000. Actual miles of use in the first 3 years were: 2009, 24,000; 2010, 34,000; and 2011, 30,000. Instructions (a) Compute the amount of accumulated depreciation on each bus at December 31, 2010. (b) If bus no. 2 was purchased on April 1 instead of January 1, what is the depreciation expense for this bus in (1) 2008 and (2) 2009

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