Accounting 402
Accounting for Plant Assets

Accounting for Plant Assets--General Concepts (added 11/13/98)  Review Questions
Accounting for Nonmonetary Transactions--APB Opinion No. 29

Exchanges of Nonmonetary Assets--FAS No. 153  

Illustrative problems for nonmonetary transactions
(revised to reflect FAS No. 153)
 Review Questions
International Convergence
Statement No. 153 is the result of a broader effort by the FASB to improve the comparability of cross-border financial reporting by working with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) toward development of a single set of high-quality accounting standards. The accounting for nonmonetary exchanges was identified as an area in which the U.S. standard could be improved by eliminating certain differences between the measurement guidance in Opinion 29 and
that in IAS 16, Property, Plant and Equipment, and IAS 38, Intangible Assets.
Capitalization of Interest Cost--FAS No. 34  Codification (Codification  section  835-10)
     
Question:  In determining the amount of interest cost to be capitalized as part of the cost of acquiring  qualifying assets, under what circumstances, if any, should interest income earned from investments be offset or netted against interest cost incurred?   (See Codification section 
835-20-30-10)

¤ Alternatives in accounting for interest cost
Illustration of interest capitalization

Blackstone exercise

Piedmont exercise

Jones exercise

Review Questions
Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets--FAS No. 121
(superseded by FAS No. 144)
 Review Questions
Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets--FAS No. 144
  (added 10/31/01)

Review Questions

Illustrative example for impairments
Procedural Differences in Impairment Testing

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