Question

Emporia Corporation is a lessee with a capital lease. The asset is recorded at $810,000 and has an economic life of 8 years. The lease term is 5 years. The asset is expected to have a fair value of $270,000 at the end of 5 years, and a fair value of $90,000 at the end of 8 years. The lease agreement provides for the transfer of title of the asset to the lessee at the end of the lease term. What amount of depreciation expense would the lessee record for the first year of the lease?
a. $162,000.
b. $144,000.
c. $108,000.
d. $90,000.

Answer 1

Answer:

The amount of depreciation expense the lessee should record for the first year of the lease is $108,000

Explanation:

To calculate the depreciation expense for each year the first thing you have to do is to substruct from the initial value the fair value at the end fo the lease, obtaining this way the depreciable amount.

For this case it would be:

$810,000 - $270,000= $540,000

Then you have to divide the depreciable amount by the years of the term the lease.

$540,000/5= $108,000