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Chapter 10
1. Property, plant and equipment are assets held for sale.
True False
2. Non-current assets are any liabilities that are used in the operations of a business.
True False
3. Non-current assets can be divided into two groups including tangible and intangible assets.
These assets are generally used in operations of a business and have useful lives extending over
True False
4. Land purchased as a building site is a tangible asset called property, plant and equipment and is
True False
5. The cost of an asset includes all normal and reasonable expenditures necessary to get it in place
True False
6. If a machine is damaged during unpacking, the repairs are added to its cost.
True False
7. To be charged to and reported as part of the cost of property, plant and equipment, an
expenditure must be normal, reasonable, and necessary in preparing the asset for its intended
use.
True False
8. The purchase of real estate that includes land, building, and land improvements is called a lump-
sum purchase.
True False
9. Any expenditures for legal fees, surveying, and accrued property taxes should not be included in
the cost of land.
True False
10. Revenue expenditures are additional costs of property, plant and equipment that provide material
True False
11. Revenue expenditures are expenditures to keep assets in normal operating condition.
True False
True False
13. SportsWorld spent $17,000 to remodel its store. This cost will be recognized with a debit to Store
Building.
True False
True False
15. The cost principle requires that an asset be recorded at the cash or cash equivalent amount given
in exchange.
True False
16. Subsequent expenditures are purchases made after the acquisition of equipment to operate,
True False
17. Depreciation is the process of allocating the cost of a tangible asset in a rational and systematic
True False
18. Residual value is an estimate of an asset's value at the end of its useful life.
True False
19. Inadequacy refers to the condition where the capacity of a property, plant and equipment item is
True False
True False
True False
22. Because depreciation is based on predictions of residual value and useful life, depreciation is an
estimate.
True False
23. On the balance sheet, it is not necessary to report both the cost and the accumulated
depreciation of an asset.
True False
24. Accumulated depreciation represents funds set aside to buy new assets when the assets
True False
25. The relevance principle requires that property, plant and equipment be reported at book value
True False
26. Regardless of the method of depreciation, total depreciation expense will be the same over an
True False
27. Financial accounting and tax accounting require the same recordkeeping; therefore, there should
True False
28. Companies are required to use the straight line depreciation method for tax purposes because
this method yields the lowest depreciation expense and results in the highest payment of tax.
True False
29. The Income Tax Act generally requires that companies use a double-declining-balance method of
cost allocation called Capital Cost Allowance to determine the maximum amount of deduction for
a taxation year.
True False
30. Because land has unlimited life, it is not subject to depreciation. Therefore, items that increase
the usefulness of the land such as parking lots are also not depreciated.
True False
31. The most frequently used method of depreciation is the straight-line method.
True False
32. The cost of an asset plus its accumulated depreciation equals the asset's book value.
True False
33. The units of production method of depreciation charges a varying amount of expense for each
True False
34. An accelerated depreciation method yields smaller depreciation expense in the early years of an
True False
35. The double-declining balance method is applied by (1) calculating the asset's straight-line
depreciation rate, (2) doubling it, (3) subtracting residual value from cost, and (4) multiplying the
True False
36. SportsWorld purchased store equipment for $65,000. The equipment has an estimated residual
value of $6,000, with an estimated useful life of 10 years. The annual depreciation using the
True False
37. A company is required to purchase all assets at the beginning of an accounting period so that a
True False
38. Machinery having a four-year useful life and a residual value of $5,000 was acquired for $65,000
cash on June 28. Using the nearest whole month method, the company would recognize $11,250
for depreciation expense at the end of the first year, December 31.
True False
39. A depreciable asset that is purchased on March 18 would be depreciated for nine months of the
first year, if the fiscal year ends on December 31 using nearest whole month method.
True False
40. The half year rule is the partial-year depreciation method that calculates depreciation by
determining if the asset was used for more than half of the month.
True False
41. Machinery after two years worth of depreciation has an opening book value of $6,400. At the
beginning of the third year, the predicted number of years remaining in its useful life changes
from three years to four years and its estimated residual value changes from the original $1,000
to $400. The revised annual depreciation using the straight-line method is $1,500.
True False
42. An asset that cost $5,000 has a current book value of $2,000. A revision of the useful life of the
asset estimates the asset has a remaining useful life of four years and will have a residual value
of $400. Using the straight-line method, the revised depreciation will be $500 per year.
True False
43. When the cost of the asset changes because of a subsequent capital expenditure, revised
depreciation for current and future periods must be calculated and adjusted.
True False
44. Depreciation amounts can be revised because of changes in the estimates for residual value,
useful life or because of subsequent revenue expenditures.
True False
45. An asset with a current book value of $5,000 has a current market value of $2,000. The company
True False
46. If the book value of a property, plant and equipment item is less than the amount to be recovered
through the asset's use or sale, the difference is an impairment loss and the asset is described as
impaired.
True False
47. Impairment can result from a variety of situations that include a significant decline in an asset's
market value or a major adverse effect caused by technological, economic, or legal factors.
True False
True False
49. The gain or loss from disposal of property, plant and equipment is the difference between an
True False
50. Property, plant and equipment can be disposed of by discarding, sale, or exchange of the asset.
True False
51. The first step in accounting for the disposal of property, plant and equipment is calculating the
True False
52. Equipment costing $14,000 with accumulated depreciation of $10,000 was sold for $3,000. The
True False
53. At the time a plant asset is being discarded or sold, it is necessary to update the accumulated
True False
54. When accumulated depreciation equals the asset's cost, the asset is fully depreciated. The entry
True False
55. When assigning values to an exchange of assets you should use the fair value of the asset given
up.
True False
56. When assigning values to an exchange of assets you should always use the fair value of the
asset received.
True False
57. A patent is an exclusive right granted to its owner to manufacture and sell a patented machine or
True False
58. Intangible assets should be amortized over their anticipated legal, regulatory, contractual,
True False
59. Amortization is the process of allocating the cost of intangibles over their estimated useful life.
True False
60. Drilling rights are legal permissions to extract natural resources from the earth and are treated as
intangible assets.
True False
61. Intangible assets provide rights, privileges, and competitive advantages to the owner, are used in
operations, and have no physical substance.
True False
62. A copyright gives its owner the exclusive right to publish and sell a musical, literary, or artistic
True False
63. The cost of developing, maintaining, or enhancing the value of a trademark is capitalized, or
True False
True False
65. Goodwill is not depreciated or amortized but is instead decreased only if its value has been
True False
66. Goodwill is depreciated over its useful life as estimated by the business's management.
True False
67. Goodwill is written down to its fair value if the fair value is less than its carrying value.
True False
68. The impairment of goodwill appears directly on the statement of changes in equity and not on the
income statement.
True False
69. Property, plant and equipment are:
A. Tangible assets used in the operation of a business having a useful life of more than one
accounting period.
B. Current assets.
C. Long-term investments.
D. Intangible assets used in the operations of a business having a useful life of more than one
accounting period.
E. Tangible assets used in the operation of business having a useful life of less than one
accounting period.
70. A main accounting issue for property, plant and equipment is:
A. Current assets.
C. Natural resources.
D. Long-term investments.
E. Never depreciated.
72. Property, plant and equipment include:
A. Land.
B. Land improvements.
C. Buildings.
A. Assets that increase the usefulness of land, but that have a limited useful life.
B. Assets that increase the usefulness of land, and like land are not depreciated.
E. Never depreciated.
A. Purchase price.
improvements appraised at $25,000, and a building appraised at $55,500. What should be the
76. SportsWorld purchased property for a building site. The costs associated with the property were:
What portion of these costs should be allocated to the cost of the land and what portion should be
A Fragment
The London Weekly Review.]
[December 6, 1828.
‘If to do were as easy as to teach others what were good to be done, chapels had
been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.’
Now, was the piety in this case the less real, because it had been
forgotten for a moment? Or even if this motive should not prove the
strongest in the end, would this therefore show that it was none,
which is necessary to the argument here combated, or to make out
our little plump priest a very knave! A priest may be honest, and yet
err; as a woman may be modest, and yet half-inclined to be a rake. So
the virtue of prudes may be suspected, though not their sincerity.
The strength of their passions may make them more conscious of
their weakness, and more cautious of exposing themselves; but not
more to blind others than as a guard upon themselves. Again,
suppose a clergyman hazards a jest upon sacred subjects, does it
follow that he does not believe a word of the matter? Put the case
that any one else, encouraged by his example, takes up the banter or
levity, and see what effect it will have upon the reverend divine. He
will turn round like a serpent trod upon, with all the vehemence and
asperity of the most bigoted orthodoxy. Is this dictatorial and
exclusive spirit then put on merely as a mask and to browbeat
others? No; but he thinks he is privileged to trifle with the subject
safely himself, from the store of evidence he has in reserve, and from
the nature of his functions; but he is afraid of serious consequences
being drawn from what others might say, or from his seeming to
countenance it; and the moment the Church is in danger, or his own
faith brought in question, his attachment to each becomes as visible
as his hatred to those who dare to impugn either the one or the other.
A woman’s attachment to her husband is not to be suspected, if she
will allow no one to abuse him but herself! It has been remarked,
that with the spread of liberal opinions, or a more general scepticism
on articles of faith, the clergy and religious persons in general have
become more squeamish and jealous of any objections to their
favourite doctrines: but this is what must follow in the natural course
of things—the resistance being always in proportion to the danger;
and arguments and books that were formerly allowed to pass
unheeded, because it was supposed impossible they could do any
mischief, are now denounced or prohibited with the most zealous
vigilance, from a knowledge of the contagious nature of their
influence and contents. So in morals, it is obvious that the greatest
nicety of expression and allusion must be observed, where the
manners are the most corrupt, and the imagination most easily
excited, not out of mere affectation, but as a dictate of common sense
and decency.
One of the finest remarks that has been made in modern times, is
that of Lord Shaftesbury, that there is no such thing as a perfect
Theist, or an absolute Atheist; that whatever may be the general
conviction entertained on the subject, the evidence is not and cannot
be at all times equally present to the mind; that even if it were, we
are not in the same humour to receive it: a fit of the gout, a shower of
rain shakes our best-established conclusions; and according to
circumstances and the frame of mind we are in, our belief varies
from the most sanguine enthusiasm to lukewarm indifference, or the
most gloomy despair. There is a point of conceivable faith which
might prevent any lapse from virtue, and reconcile all contrarieties
between theory and practice; but this is not to be looked for in the
ordinary course of nature, and is reserved for the abodes of the blest.
Here, ‘upon this bank and shoal of time,’ the utmost we can hope to
attain is, a strong habitual belief in the excellence of virtue, or the
dispensations of Providence; and the conflict of the passions, and
their occasional mastery over us, far from disproving or destroying
this general, rational conviction, often fling us back more forcibly
upon it, and like other infidelities and misunderstandings, produce
all the alternate remorse and raptures of repentance and
reconciliation.
It has been frequently remarked that the most obstinate heretic or
confirmed sceptic, witnessing the service of the Roman Catholic
church, the elevation of the host amidst the sounds of music, the
pomp of ceremonies, the embellishments of art, feels himself spell-
bound: and is almost persuaded to become a renegade to his reason
or his religion. Even in hearing a vespers chaunted on the stage, or in
reading an account of a torch-light procession in a romance, a
superstitious awe creeps over the frame, and we are momentarily
charmed out of ourselves. When such is the obvious and involuntary
influence of circumstances on the imagination, shall we say that a
monkish recluse surrounded from his childhood by all this pomp, a
stranger to any other faith, who has breathed no other atmosphere,
and all whose meditations are bent on this one subject both by
interest and habit and duty, is to be set down as a rank and heartless
mountebank in the professions he makes of belief in it, because his
thoughts may sometimes wander to forbidden subjects, or his feet
stumble on forbidden ground? Or shall not the deep shadows of the
woods in Vallombrosa enhance the solemnity of this feeling, or the
icy horrors of the Grand Chartreux add to its elevation and its purity?
To argue otherwise is to misdeem of human nature, and to limit its
capacities for good or evil by some narrow-minded standard of our
own. Man is neither a God nor a brute; but there is a prosaic and a
poetical side to everything concerning him, and it is as impossible
absolutely and for a constancy to exclude either one or the other
from the mind, as to make him live without air or food. The ideal, the
empire of thought and aspiration after truth and good, is inseparable
from the nature of an intellectual being—what right have we then to
catch at every strife which in the mortified professors of religion the
spirit wages with the flesh as grossly vicious, or at every doubt, the
bare suggestion of which fills them with consternation and despair,
as a proof of the most glaring hypocrisy? The grossnesses of religion
and its stickling for mere forms as its essence, have given a handle,
and a just one, to its impugners. At the feast of Ramadan (says
Voltaire) the Mussulmans wash and pray five times a day, and then
fall to cutting one another’s throats again with the greatest
deliberation and good-will. The two things, I grant, are sufficiently at
variance; but they are, I contend, equally sincere in both. The
Mahometans are savages, but they are not the less true believers—
they hate their enemies as heartily as they revere the Koran. This,
instead of showing the fallacy of the ideal principle, shows its
universality and indestructible essence. Let a man be as bad as he
will, as little refined as possible, and indulge whatever hurtful
passions or gross vices he thinks proper, these cannot occupy the
whole of his time; and in the intervals between one scoundrel action
and another he may and must have better thoughts, and may have
recourse to those of religion (true or false) among the number,
without in this being guilty of hypocrisy or of making a jest of what is
considered as sacred. This, I take it, is the whole secret of
Methodism, which is a sort of modern vent for the ebullitions of the
spirit through the gaps of unrighteousness.
We often see that a person condemns in another the very thing he
is guilty of himself. Is this hypocrisy? It may, or it may not. If he
really feels none of the disgust and abhorrence he expresses, this is
quackery and impudence. But if he really expresses what he feels,
(and he easily may, for it is the abstract idea he contemplates in the
case of another, and the immediate temptation to which he yields in
his own, so that he probably is not even conscious of the identity or
connexion between the two,) then this is not hypocrisy, but want of
strength and keeping in the moral sense. All morality consists in
squaring our actions and sentiments to our ideas of what is fit and
proper; and it is the incessant struggle and alternate triumph of the
two principles, the ideal and the physical, that keeps up this ‘mighty
coil and pudder’ about vice and virtue, and is one great source of all
the good and evil in the world. The mind of man is like a clock that is
always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.
The ideal principle is the master-key that winds it up, and without
which it would come to a stand: the sensual and selfish feelings are
the dead weights that pull it down to the gross and grovelling. Till the
intellectual faculty is destroyed, (so that the mind sees nothing
beyond itself, or the present moment,) it is impossible to have all
brutal depravity: till the material and physical are done away with,
(so that it shall contemplate everything from a purely spiritual and
disinterested point of view,) it is impossible to have all virtue. There
must be a mixture of the two, as long as man is compounded of
opposite materials, a contradiction and an eternal competition for
the mastery. I by no means think a single bad action condemns a
man, for he probably condemns it as much as you do; nor a single
bad habit, for he is probably trying all his life to get rid of it. A man is
only thoroughly profligate when he has lost the sense of right and
wrong; or a thorough hypocrite, when he has not even the wish to be
what he appears. The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of
it. To recommend certain things is worse than to practise them.
There may be an excuse for the last in the frailty of passion; but the
former can arise from nothing but an utter depravity of disposition.
Any one may yield to temptation, and yet feel a sincere love and
aspiration after virtue: but he who maintains vice in theory, has not
even the conception or capacity for virtue in his mind. Men err:
fiends only make a mock at goodness.
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED
The Atlas.]
[March 8, 1829.
As there are two kinds of rhyme, one that is rhyme to the ear, and
another to the eye only; so there may be said to be two kinds of
poetry, one that is a description of objects to those who have never
seen or but slightly studied them; the other is a description of objects
addressed to those who have seen and are intimately acquainted with
them, and expressing the feeling which is the result of such
knowledge. It is needless to add that the first kind of poetry is
comparatively superficial and common-place; the last profound,
lofty, nay often divine. Take an example (one out of a thousand) from
Shakspeare. In enumerating the wished-for contents of her basket of
flowers, Perdita in the Winter’s Tale mentions among others——
‘Daffodils
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady
Most incident to maids.’
This passage which knocks down John Bull with its perfumed and
melting softness, and savours of ‘that fine madness which our first
poets had,’ is a mystery, an untranslateable language, to all France:
Racine could not have conceived what it was about—the stupidest
Englishman feels a certain pride and pleasure in it. What a privilege
(if that were all) to be born on this the cloudy and poetical side of the
Channel! We may in part clear up this contradiction in tastes by the
clue above given. The French are more apt at taking the patterns of
their ideas from words; we, who are slower and heavier, are obliged
to look closer at things before we can pronounce upon them at all,
which in the end perhaps opens a larger field both of observation and
fancy. Thus the phrase ‘violets dim,’ to those who have never seen
the object, or who, having paid no attention to it, refer to the
description for their notion of it, seems to convey a slur rather than a
compliment, dimness being no beauty in itself; so this part of the
story would not have been ventured upon in French or tinsel poetry.
But to those who have seen, and been as it were enamoured of the
little hedge-row candidate for applause, looking at it again and again
(as misers contemplate their gold—as fine ladies hang over their
jewels), till its image has sunk into the soul, what other word is there
that (far from putting the reader out of conceit with it) so well recals
its deep purple glow, its retired modesty, its sullen, conscious
beauty? Those who have not seen the flower cannot form an idea of
its character, nor understand the line without it. Its aspect is dull,
obtuse, faint, absorbed; but at the same time soft, luxurious, proud,
and full of meaning. People who look at nature without being
sensible to these distinctions and contrarieties of feeling, had better
(instead of the flower) look only at the label on the stalk.
Connoisseurs in French wines pretend to know all these depths and
refinements of taste, though connoisseurs in French poetry pretend
to know them not. To return to our text——
‘Violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
Or Cytherea’s breath.’
The Atlas.]
[March 15, 1829.