On January 1, 2008, Klinefelter Company purchased a building for $520,000. The building had an estimated life

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On January 1, 2008, Klinefelter Company purchased a building for $520,000. The building had an estimated life of 20 years and an estimated residual value of $20,000. The company has been depreciating the building using straight-line depreciation. At the beginning of 2014, the following independent situations occur:

a. The company estimates that the building has a remaining life of 10 years (for a total of 16 years).

b. The company changes to the sum-of-the-years'-digits method.

c. The company discovers that it had ignored the estimated residual value in the computation of the annual depreciation each year.

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For each of the independent situations, prepare all journal entries related to the building for 2014. Ignore income taxes.

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Intermediate Accounting Reporting and Analysis

ISBN: 978-1111822361

1st edition

Authors: James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald Pagach

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