On June 30, Hanson Company Purchased a Building for $600,000

question 83

Essay

On June 30, Hanson Company purchased a building for $600,000. The company made a cash payment of $200,000 and signed a twenty-year, 8% mortgage note payable for the remainder. Payments of $40,000 are made every June 30 and December 31. The building has a useful life of twenty years and a residual value of $100,000. Hanson uses the straight-line depreciation method and prepares its adjusting entries on an annual basis. Journalize the June 30 transactions, any annual adjusting entries for December 31, and the mortgage payment on December 31.

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Definitions:

Externality Compensation

Payments or remedies provided to offset the unintended negative or positive effects imposed on third parties by the production or consumption of goods and services.

Efficient Outcome

An allocation of resources in which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Marginal Cost

The cost associated with producing one additional unit of output, focusing on how total production costs change with production volume adjustments.