ACCOUNTG 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Financial Statement, Contingent Liability

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Expensing intangible assets: an asset with an identifiable useful life is amortized using the straight-li(cid:374)e (cid:373)ethod over the i(cid:374)ta(cid:374)gible"s legal life or its useful life. The life is the lesser of legal or useful life: patents, copyrights, trademarks have identifiable lives, goodwill has an unidentifiable life. It"s tested for i(cid:373)pair(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: for tangibles: Straight line method = cost salvage value / useful life: for intangibles, there"s (cid:374)o salvage value. Straight-line method = cost / legal or useful life: example: bought patent for ,000,000, has legal life of 10 years, sold after 5 years. Because 5 of the 10 legal years were already used, only 5 useful years left: example: we purchased a patent that has a 20 year legal and useful life for ,000 cash. Contingent liabilities: likelihood of a contingent liability becoming an actual liability. Probable and estimable recognize in the financial statements. Reasonably possible (or probable but not estimable) disclose in the footnotes to the financial statements.

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