A Company Had a Building Destroyed by Fire

question 163

Essay

A company had a building destroyed by fire. The building originally cost $650,000, and its accumulated depreciation as of the date of the fire was $300,000. The company received $400,000 cash from an insurance policy that covered the building and will use that money to help rebuild. Prepare the single journal entry to record the destruction of the building and the receipt of cash from the insurance company.

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of numbers; a measure of dispersion or variability.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the dataset into two halves.

IQR

IQR, or Interquartile Range, measures the middle 50% spread of a dataset by calculating the difference between the first (25th percentile) and third (75th percentile) quartiles.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset.