Question

Bricktown Exchange purchases a copyright for $50,000. The copyright has a remaining legal life of 25 years, but only an expected useful life of five years with no residual value. Assume the company uses the straight-line method to record amortization. What is the carrying value of the copyright at the end of the second year?

Answer 1

Answer:

$30,000

Explanation:

Amortization is the process of expensing the cost of an intangible over its useful life. It is equivalent to depreciation in physical assets.

Under the straight-line depreciation, the depreciation amount is constant throughout the life of the asset.

For Bricktown, the cost of the asset is $50,000

use-life is five years,

the rate of depreciation will be 1/5 x 100

=1/5 x 100

20 percent

depreciation per year will 20% x $50,000

=20/100 x 100

=10,000

Accumulated depreciation at the end of the second year

=$10,000 x 2

=$20,000

The carrying value after two years will be the value of the asset - accumulated value. ( carrying value is the book value).

=$50,000 - $20,000

=$30,000