Van Frank Telecommunications has a patent on a cellular transmission process. The company has amortized the patent

Question:

Van Frank Telecommunications has a patent on a cellular transmission process. The company has amortized the patent on a straight-line basis since 2014, when it was acquired at a cost of $9 million at the beginning of that year. Due to rapid technological advances in the industry, management decided that the patent would benefit the company over a total of six years rather than the nine-year life being used to amortize its cost. The decision was made at the beginning of 2018.
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Prepare the year-end journal entry for patent amortization in 2018. No amortization was recorded during the year. Saint John prepares its according to IFRS. On June 30, 2018, the company purchased
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