(Asset Acquisition) Logan Industries purchased the following assets and constructed a building as well. All this was done during the current year.

Assets 1 and 2

These assets were purchased as a lump sum for $104,000 cash. The following information was gathered.

Description

Initial   Cost on

Seller’s   Books

Depreciation   to

Date   on Seller’s

Books  

Book   Value on

Seller’s   Books

Appraised   Value

Machinery

$100,000  

$50,000  

$50,000  

$90,000  

Equipment

60,000  

10,000  

50,000  

30,000  

Asset 3

This machine was acquired by making a $10,000 down payment and issuing a $30,000, 2 year, zerointerest bearing note. The note is to be paid off in two $15,000 installments made at the end of the first and second years. It was estimated that the asset could have been purchased outright for $35,900.

Asset 4

This machinery was acquired by trading in used machinery. (The exchange lacks commercial substance.) Facts concerning the trade in are as follows.

Cost of machinery traded

$100,000  

Accumulated depreciation to   date of sale

36,000  

Fair value of machinery traded

80,000  

Cash received

10,000  

Fair value of machinery   acquired

70,000  

Asset 5

Office equipment was acquired by issuing 100 shares of $8 par value common stock. The stock had a market price of $11 per share.

Construction of Building

A building was constructed on land purchased last year at a cost of $180,000. Construction began on February 1 and was completed on November 1. The payments to the contractor were as follows.

Date

Payment

2/1

$120,000

6/1

360,000

9/1

480,000

11/1

100,000  

To finance construction of the building, a $600,000, 12% construction loan was taken out on February 1. The loan was repaid on November 1. The firm had $200,000 of other outstanding debt during the year at a borrowing rate of 8%.

Instructions

Record the acquisition of each of these assets.