Cooler Company acquired a tract of land containing an extractable natural resource.  Cooler is required by the purchase contract to restore the land to a condition suitable for recreational use after it has extracted the natural resource.  Geological surveys estimate that the recoverable reserves will be 5,000,000 tons and that the land will have of P1,000,000 after restoration. Relevant cost information as follows:                           Land                                                               P 9,000,000                         Estimated restoration costs                               1,500,000        If Cooler maintains no inventories of extracted material, what should be the depletion expense per ton of extracted material?

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Cooler Company acquired a tract of land containing an extractable natural resource.  Cooler is required by the purchase contract to restore the land to a condition suitable for recreational use after it has extracted the natural resource.  Geological surveys estimate that the recoverable reserves will be 5,000,000 tons and that the land will have of P1,000,000 after restoration. Relevant cost information as follows: 

 

                       Land                                                               P 9,000,000 

                       Estimated restoration costs                               1,500,000 

 

    If Cooler maintains no inventories of extracted material, what should be the depletion expense per ton of extracted material? 

 

 

 

 

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