Horngren's Accounting, Student Value Edition (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134487151
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 8RQ
A business purchases an acre of land for $5,000. The current market value is $5,550, and the land was assessed for property tax purposes at $5,250. What value should the land be recorded at, and which accounting principle supports your answer?
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Following are descriptions of land purchases in four separate cases.
Requireda. Determine the cost used for recording the land acquired in each case.b. Record the journal entry for each case on the date of the land’s acquisition.
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Case One
1. At the midpoint of the current year, a $32,000 check is given for land, and the buyer assumes the liability for unpaid taxes in arrears of $800 at the end of last year and those assessed for the current year of $720.
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1 Suppose the taxpayer received $35,000 in cash, a ring worth $3,000 and the buyer assumed the seller's
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a. What is the amount realized?
b. What is the adjusted basis of the property?
c. What is the gain on the sale of the property?
Which of the following are subjected to Value Added Tax (VAT)?
A Sale by a real estate dealer of residential lot with a selling price or P800,000.
B Sale by a real estate dealer of residential lot with a selling price of P3,500,000.
C Sale by a real estate dealer of commercial lot with a selling price of P2,800,000.
D Sale of residential lot classified as capital asset.
E Sale by a real estate dealer of residential house and lot with a selling price of P3,000,000
F Sale by a real estate dealer of condominium unit with a selling price of P3,250,000
G Sale by a real estate dealer of parking lot in a condominium unit with a selling price of P850,000.
H Sale of residential house and lot classified as capital asset with a selling price of P8,000,000.
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