On January 11, 2013, Hughes Company applied for a trade name. Legal costs associated with the application

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On January 11, 2013, Hughes Company applied for a trade name. Legal costs associated with the application were $20,000. In January 2014, the company incurred $8,000 of legal fees in a successful defense of its trade name. The trade name was not impaired in 2013 and 2014.
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1. Compute the ending carrying value of the trade name for 2013 and 2014.
2. Next Level Should the company amortize the trade name? Under what circumstances would the trade name be amortized?
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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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