Question

The Borio Company had an asset with an $8 book value and a $7 market value; it decided to distribute the asset as a property dividend. Journal entries were made to adjust the property to market value and declare the dividend. Indicate the combined effect on the Net Income and Total Assets, respectively:

Answer 1

Answer:

The net income will decrease and also the total assets will also decrease

Explanation:

Here, we want to know the combined effect on net income and total assets of company that made a decision of distributing assets as a property dividend.

As the asset value is down the entry is asset (credit) and loss on asset (debit)

This will effect the net income as it will come down and total assets value also come down