Computing and Assessing Plant Asset Impairment
On July 1, 2005, Zeibart Company purchases equipment for $277,000. The equipment has an estimated useful life of 10 years and expected salvage value of $27,000. The company uses straight-line depreciation. On July 1, 2009, economic factors cause the fair value of the equipment to decline to $107,000. On this date, Zeibart examines the equipment for impairment and estimates $152,000 in undiscounted expected cash inflows from this equipment.
(a) Compute the annual depreciation of the equipment for fiscal years ending July 1, 2006 through July 1,
2009.
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(b) Compute the equipment's net book value at July 1, 2009.
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(c) Apply the test of impairment to this equipment as of July 1, 2009. Is the equipment impaired? Show supporting computations.
(d) If the equipment is impaired at July 1, 2009, compute the impairment loss. (If the equipment is not impaired, enter 0.)
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