Reference no: EM132563017

Question - Skysong Timber Inc., a small private company that follows ASPE, owns 13,000 hectares of timberland purchased in 2007 at a cost of $1,300 per hectare. At the time of purchase, the land without the timber was valued at $500 per hectare. In 2008, Skysong built fire lanes and roads, with a physical life of 30 years, at a cost of $84,000 and separately capitalized these costs. Every year, Skysong sprays to prevent disease at a cost of $3,000 per year and spends $10,000 to maintain the fire lanes and roads. During 2009, Skysong selectively logged and sold 650,000 cubic metres of the estimated 3.25 million cubic metres of timber. In 2010, Skysong planted new seedlings to replace the cut trees at a cost of $190,000.

Q1: Determine the depletion charge and the portion of depletion included in the cost of timber sold in 2010.

Q2: Provide the journal entries to record the depletion charged to inventory (and subsequently to cost of goods sold) for the year.

Q3: Skysong has not logged since 2009. Assume that Skysong logged 900,000 cubic metres of timber in 2020, of which 60% was sold in 2020 and the remainder sold in 2021. The timber cruiser (the appraiser) had estimated a total resource of 5 million cubic metres. Determine the cost of timber sold that relates to the depletion for 2020 and 2021.

Q4: Provide the journal entries to account for the cost of timber produced in 2020 and subsequently sold in 2020 and 2021.

Q5: Prepare the necessary journal entry to show how Skysong would account for the maintenance costs of the fire lanes and roads and the spraying of the timberland.