Question: Plant acquisitions for selected companies are as follows. 1. Buffalo Industries Inc. acquired land, buildings, and equipment from a bankrupt company, Torres Co., for a

Plant acquisitions for selected companies are as follows.
1. Buffalo Industries Inc. acquired land, buildings, and equipment from a bankrupt company, Torres Co., for a lump-sum price of $812,000. At the time of purchase, Torres’s assets had the following book and appraisal values.



Book Values


Appraisal Values

Land


$232,000



$174,000


Buildings


290,000



406,000


Equipment


348,000



348,000



To be conservative, the company decided to take the lower of the two values for each asset acquired. The following entry was made.

Land


174,000



Buildings


290,000



Equipment


348,000



Cash




812,000

2. Carla Enterprises purchased store equipment by making a $2,320 cash down payment and signing a 1-year, $26,680, 10% note payable. The purchase was recorded as follows.

Equipment


31,668



Cash




2,320

Notes Payable




26,680

Interest Payable




2,668

3. Sarasota Company purchased office equipment for $18,000, terms 2/10, n/30. Because the company intended to take the discount, it made no entry until it paid for the acquisition. The entry was:

Equipment


18,000



Cash




17,640

Purchase Discounts




360


4. Ivanhoe Inc. recently received at zero cost land from the Village of Cardassia as an inducement to locate its business in the Village. The appraised value of the land is $31,320. The company made no entry to record the land because it had no cost basis.
5. Shamrock Company built a warehouse for $696,000. It could have purchased the building for $858,400. The controller made the following entry.

Buildings


858,400



Cash




696,000

Profit on Construction




162,400


Prepare the entry that should have been made at the date of each acquisition. (Round intermediate calculations to 5 decimal palces, e.g. 0.56487 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,275. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

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