Question

On January 1, 2021, Pine Corporation signed a five-year noncancelable lease for equipment. The terms of the lease called for Pine to make annual payments of $800,000 at the beginning of each year for five years beginning on January 1, 2021 with the title passing to Pine at the end of this period. The equipment has an estimated useful life of 7 years and no salvage value. Pine uses the straight- line method of depreciation for all of its fixed assets. Pine accordingly accounts for this lease transaction as a finance lease. The lease payments were determined to have a present value of $3,335,888 at an effective interest rate of 10%. In 2021, Pine should record interest expense of:______.
a. 333,589
b. 253,589
c. 466,411
d. 546,411

Answer 1

Answer:

b. 253,589

Explanation:

According to the scenario, computation of the given data are as follows,

Present value of lease payment = $3,335,888

Payment in 2021 = $800,000

Interest rate =   10%

So, we can calculate the interest expense by using following formula,

Interest expense = (Present value of lease payment - Payment in 2021 ) × interest rate

Interest expense = ($3,335,888 - $800,000) × 10%

= $2,535,888 × 10%

= $253,588.8 or $253,589

In 2021, Pine should record interest expense of $253,589