On Feb 1, 2020, the Bean company completed the acquisition of the Coffee Corporation for $3,410,000 in cash. The fair value of the net identifiable assets of Coffee was $2,950,000. Bean purchased a patent on April 30, 2020 that was valued at $101,400. The remaining legal life of the patent was 17 years, but Bean believes that the patent will only be useful for another nine years. Bean received approval for a trademark on July 1, 2020, by paying a legal fee of $120,000. The contractual life of the trademark is 10 years. Bean spent $57,000 from Sept 1 through Sept 30 for experimental purposes in connection with the development of a new product. On Oct 1, Bean installed a new part, at a cost of $88,000, on it's most used coffee machine that would make the machine more efficient to produce more bags of coffee. The machine has a useful life of 8 years remaining with no salvage value, and a current book value of 208,000. Bean uses straight-line depreciation on it's machines. On Dec 31, 2020 Bean Co. traded one of its old machines with an original cost of $13,400 and a book value of $4,800, plus cash of $12,500 for a new machine that had a fair value of $20,200. The exchange has commercial substance.

how much Depreciation Expense should Bean record in total for all of it's long-term assets on December 31st?

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Bean Co should record a total of 36900 in Depreciation Expense for all of its longterm asset... View the full answer