Wolverine Airlines, a Michigan based low-cost airline flies charter flights to vacation destinations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Cancun, Mexico. During 2020, due to the corona virus pandemic, the airline grounded most of its aircrafts and canceled almost all its booked flights for the summer. Bluebird decided that an impairment test was appropriate. The Chief Accountant has prepared the following information for the assets of the airline ($ in millions) Cost of Aircraft Fleet                     $800                     Estimated undiscounted sum        $180 of future cash flows   Estimated fair value of aircraft       $300 fleet                                               Accumulated depreciation             $200   Required: Determine the amount of the impairment loss Bluebird Airlines should recognize, if any. Prepare the journal entry to record the loss, if any. Repeat requirement 1 assuming that the estimated undiscounted sum of future cash flows is $650 million instead of $180.

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Wolverine Airlines, a Michigan based low-cost airline flies charter flights to vacation destinations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Cancun, Mexico. During 2020, due to the corona virus pandemic, the airline grounded most of its aircrafts and canceled almost all its booked flights for the summer. Bluebird decided that an impairment test was appropriate. The Chief Accountant has prepared the following information for the assets of the airline ($ in millions)

Cost of Aircraft Fleet                     $800

                   

Estimated undiscounted sum        $180

of future cash flows

 

Estimated fair value of aircraft       $300

fleet                                            

 

Accumulated depreciation             $200

 

Required:

  1. Determine the amount of the impairment loss Bluebird Airlines should recognize, if any.
  2. Prepare the journal entry to record the loss, if any.
  3. Repeat requirement 1 assuming that the estimated undiscounted sum of future cash flows is $650 million instead of $180.

 

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