Question

Fortune Drilling Company acquires a mineral deposit at a cost of $5,900,000. It incurs additional costs of $600,000 to access the deposit, which is estimated to contain 2,000,000 tons and is expected to take 5 years to extract. What journal entry would be needed to record the expense for the first year assuming 418,000 tons were mined

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

the journal entry is given below:

Depletion Expense $1,358,500

To Accumulated Depletion $1,358,500.

(Being depletion expense is recorded)

Here the depletion expense is debited as it increased the expense and credited the accumulated depreciation as it decreased the assets

Working note

Depletion expense is

= ($5,900,000 + $600,000) ÷ $2,000,000 × 418,000

= $1,358,500