When Certain Kinds of Assets Are Built That Require Public

question 37

Multiple Choice

When certain kinds of assets are built that require public welfare and safety expenditures at the end of the asset's life: 

• A) these asset retirement costs are expensed when asset retirement occurs.
• B) a liability simultaneously arises.
• C) these estimated future expenditures are added to the carrying value of the asset.
• D) this fact is only reported in the financial statement footnotes.

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Definitions:

Adjustment

Entries made in preparing financial statements to allocate expenses or revenues to the appropriate accounting period.

Aging Report

A financial report that categorizes a company's accounts receivable according to the length of time an invoice has been outstanding.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

This is a contra-asset account that reduces the total amount of accounts receivable reported on the balance sheet, reflecting the estimate of non-collectible amounts due to credit sales.

Uncollectible Accounts

Accounts receivable that are considered unlikely to be collected and are therefore written off as a loss.