ADM 1300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Book Value, Asset Turnover, Asset

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Under the cost principle, the acquisition cost for property, plant, and equipment includes all expenditures necessary to acquire the asset and make it ready for its intended use. For example, the cost of factory equipment includes the purchase price, freight costs paid by the purchaser, insurance costs during transit, and expenditures required in assembling, installing, and testing the equipment. (b) The one-year insurance payment is for an annual expense and unlike the insurance for the equipment in transit, was not incurred to get the asset ready for use. Training costs are also expensed as they were incurred to get staff ready to use the machinery. These costs were not incurred on the machinery itself. (b) (c) April 1, 2015 because that is the date when the asset was ready for use. The company should use the straight-line method since the economic benefits are expected to be consumed evenly over the machinery"s useful life. (d)

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