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Chapter 10
Property, Plant and Equipment and Intangible Assets: Aquisition and Disposition
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
10/30/2011

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Property, Plant, and Equipment
Definition

productive assets that derive their value from long term use in operations rather than from resale.

 

 

Aquisition Costs: All expenditures neccessary to get the asset in condition and location for its intended use.

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Equipment
Definition

Broad term that includes machinery, computers and other office equipment, vehicles, furniture, and fixtures

 

 

Aquisition Costs: Purchase price (less discounts), taxes, transportation, installation, testing, trial runs, reconditioning

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Land
Definition

Real property used in operations (land held for speculative investment or future use is held as investments or other assets

 

Aquisition Costs: Purchase Price, attorney's fees, title, recording fees, commissions, back taxes, mortgages, liens, clearing, filling, draining, removing old buildings

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Land Improvements
Definition

Enhancements to property such as parking lots, driveways, private roads, fences, landscaping, and sprinkler systems

 

 

Acquisition Costs: Separately identifiable costs

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Buildings
Definition

structures that include warehouses, plant facilities, and office buildings

 

 

Acquisition costs: Purchase price, attorney's fees, commissions, reconditioning

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Natural Resources
Definition

Productive assets that are physically consumed in operations such as timber, mineral deposits, and oil and gas reserves

 

 

Acquisition costs: acquisition, exploration, development, and restoration costs

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Intangible Assets
Definition

Productive assets that lack physical substance and have long-term but typically uncertain benefits,

 

 

Aquisition cost: All expenditures neccessary to get the asset in condition and location for its intended use.

Term
Patents
Definition

Exclusive 20-year right to manufacture a product or use a process

 

Acquisition costs: Purchase price, legal fees, filing fees, not including internal research and development (R&D)

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Copyrights
Definition

Exclusive right to benefit from a creative work such as a song, film, painiting, photograph, or book

 

 

Acquisition Costs: Purchase price, legal fees, filing fees, not including internal R&D

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Trademarks/Tradenames
Definition

Exclusive right to display a word, a slogan, a symbol, or an emblem that distinctly identifies a company, product, or a service

 

 

Acquisition Costs: Purchase price, legal fees, filing fees, not including internal R&D

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Franchises
Definition

a contractual arrangement under which a franchisor grants the franchisee the exclusive right to use the franchisor's trademark or tradename and certain product rights

 

 

Acquisition Costs: Franchise fee, plus any legal fee

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Goodwill
Definition

the unique value of the company as a whole over and above all identifiable assets

 

 

Acquisition Costs: FV-BV

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