Four Years Ago Alpha Products,Inc

question 10

Essay

Four years ago Alpha Products,Inc.acquired a computer-controlled milling machine to use in its medical device manufacturing operations at a cost of $5,000,000.The firm expected the machine to have an eight-year useful life and zero salvage value.The company has been using straight-line depreciation for the asset.Due to the rapid rate of technological change in the industry,at the end of Year 5,Alpha estimates that the machine is capable of generating (undiscounted)future cash flows of $1,500,000.Based on the quoted market prices of similar assets,Alpha estimates the machine to have a fair value of $1,200,000.
Required:
a.What is the book value of the machine at the end of Year 5?
b.Should Alpha recognize an impairment of this asset? Why or why not? If yes,what is the amount of the impairment loss that should be recognized?
c.At the end of Year 5,at what amount should the machine appear in Alpha's balance sheet?
d.What would your answer to requirement (b.)have been if Alpha's estimate of the machine's (undiscounted)future cash flows was $2,000,000?

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