Sequoia Purchased the Rights to Cut Timber on Several Tracts

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Essay

Sequoia purchased the rights to cut timber on several tracts of land over a 15-year period. It paid $500,000 for cutting rights. A timber engineer estimates that 500,000 board feet of timber will be cut. During the current year, Sequoia cut 45,000 board feet of timber, which it sold for $900,000. What is Sequoia's cost depletion deduction for the current year?

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Definitions:

Machine Hours

Machine hours denote the total amount of time a machine is operated within a specific period, used for costing and operational efficiency measures.

Overhead Applied

Overhead applied is an accounting term referring to the allocation of indirect costs to the production of goods or services, based on a predetermined rate.

Overapplication of Overhead

The situation where the allocated manufacturing overhead costs exceed the actual overhead costs incurred during a period.

Machine Hours

A measure of the time a machine is in operation, used in cost accounting to allocate machine costs to products.