For the year ending December 31, 2018, Micron Corporation had income from continuing operations before taxes of

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For the year ending December 31, 2018, Micron Corporation had income from continuing operations before taxes of $1,200,000 before considering the following transactions and events. All of the items described below are before taxes and the amounts should be considered material.

1. In November 2018, Micron sold its Waffle House restaurant chain that qualified as a component of an entity. The company had adopted a plan to sell the chain in May 2018. The income from operations of the chain from January 1, 2018, through November was $160,000 and the loss on sale of the chain's assets was $300,000.

2. In 2018, Micron sold one of its six factories for $1,200,000. At the time of the sale, the factory had a book value of $1,100,000. The factory was not considered a component of the entity.

3. In 2016, Micron's accountant omitted the annual adjustment for patent amortization expense of $120,000. The error was not discovered until December 2018.

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Prepare Micron's income statement, beginning with income from continuing operations before taxes, for the year ended December 31, 2018. Assume an income tax rate of 30%. Ignore EPS disclosures.

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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 9781259722660

9th Edition

Authors: J. David Spiceland, James Sepe, Mark Nelson, Wayne Thomas

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