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All of the following statements regarding uncertainty in liabilities are true except:

When plant assets are purchased as a group in a single transaction for a lump-sum price, the cost of the purchase is allocated among the different types of assets acquired based on their relative market values.

Fortune Drilling Company acquires a mineral deposit at a cost of $5,900,000. It incurs additional costs of $600,000 to access the deposit, which is estimated to contain 2,000,000 tons and is expected to take 5 years to extract. What journal entry would be needed to record the expense for the first year assuming 418,000 tons were mined?

The double-declining balance method is applied by (1) computing the asset’s straight-line depreciation rate, (2) doubling it, (3) subtracting salvage value from cost, and (4) multiplying the rate times the net value.

If land is purchased as a building site, the cost of removing existing structures is not charged to the Land account.

A company had a tractor destroyed by fire. The tractor originally cost $85,000 with accumulated depreciation of $60,000. The proceeds from the insurance company were $20,000. The company should recognize:

Which of the following is not true regarding the unemployment insurance program?

A company issued 7%, 5-year bonds with a par value of $100,000. The market rate when the bonds were issued was 7.5%. The company received $97,947 cash for the bonds. Using the effective interest method, the amount of interest expense for the first semiannual interest period is:

Mohr Company purchases a machine at the beginning of the year at a cost of $24,000. The machine is depreciated using the straight-line method. The machine’s useful life is estimated to be 5 years with a $4,000 salvage value. Depreciation expense in year 2 is:

Trey Morgan is an employee who is paid monthly. For the month of January of the current year, he earned a total of $4,538. The FICA tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year, and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings for both the employee and the employer. The amount of federal income tax withheld from his earnings was $680.70. His net pay for the month is: