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    • CommentAuthorCRT
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2009
     
    WE JUST SOLD OUR AIRPLANE. THE DEPRECIATION HAS NOT BEEN POSTED FOR 10 YEARS. BALANCE SHEET
    SHOW F/A VALUE AT $610,000.00 AND POSTED A/DEPRECIATION AT -$37,500.00. WE SOLD THE PLANE FOR
    $655,000.00. cAN SOMEONE HELP ME WITH THE ENTRY? DO i HAVE TO POST 10 YRS WORTH OF DEPRECIATION?
    WE ARE A 501C-3 NON PROFIT CHURCH.
    • CommentAuthorpk
    • CommentTimeAug 27th 2009
     
    If no depreciation entry passed for the past ten years, then how come your B/S shows a balance in the Accummulated Depr. Account?
    Thankful People: CRT
    • CommentAuthorCRT
    • CommentTimeAug 27th 2009
     
    THERE WAS SOME DEPRECIATION POSTED THROUGH 1996. THEN HAD SEVERAL EMPLOYEE CHANGES AND
    POSTING OF DEPRECIATION DID NOT GET DONE AFTER THAT. ENTRY BALANCES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
    FIXED ASSETS 1565-000-00 AIRCRAFT 610,000.00
    1665-000-00 A/D AIRCRAFT -37,500.00
    THANK YOU
  1.  
    It depends on whether the failure to depreciate the asset was done in error (as in you forgot or were trying to manipulate earnings) or as a change in accounting estimate (as in you reassessed the assets and its salvage value and found that the asset had already been depreciated to its salvage value and no further depreciation was necessary).

    If a case can be made that this was simply a change in estimate and there was some sort of reasoning for the lack of depreciation (the only one I can think of is that it has been depreciated down to its salvage value) then what I would do is either 1) nothing, take the gain/loss on sale or 2) reassess the asset in the current year, figure out what this year's depreciation should be based on its remaining useful life, and then take this years depreciation amount before you write it off the books. Then take the remaining gain/loss.

    However, if you guys just forgot to depreciate, then this is an error and restatement needs to occur. Restate the earliest shown i/s in a comparable balance sheet and adjust the beginning retained earnings account for any effects of changes prior to the earliest shown i/s. (DR-RE and CR-AD)

    Hope this helps!
    • CommentAuthorCRT
    • CommentTimeSep 21st 2009
     
    I don't know how to enter the 'red thanks' so I will just say thank you here. It really was an error. Will
    try to correct it according to your suggestions.
    THANK YOU.



 

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