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Belverd E. Needles, Jr., DePaul University Marian Powers, Northwestern University Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College
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Chapter 11: Long-Term Assets
- Identify the types of long-terms assets and explain the management issues related to accounting for them.
- Distinguish between capital and revenue expenditures, and account for the cost of property, plant, and equipment.
- Define depreciation, state the factors that affect its computation, and show how to record it.
- Compute periodic depreciation under the straight-line method, production method, and declining-balance method.
- Account for the disposal of depreciable assets not involving exchanges.
- Account for the disposal of depreciable assets involving exchanges.
- Identify the issues related to accounting for natural resources and compute depletion.
- Apply the matching rule to intangible assets, including research and development costs and goodwill.
- Apply depreciation methods to problems of partial years, revised rates, groups of similar items, special types of capital expenditures, and cost recovery.
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