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How A Disposal of A Revalued Tangible Non-Current Asset Is Recorded
How A Disposal of A Revalued Tangible Non-Current Asset Is Recorded
record $156,800.
a disposal of a revalued non-current asset. Now that you have this number you can
calculate
In your exam you may be asked to record a
disposal the balance on the revaluation surplus on
the 1st of January 20X4.
of a revalued non-current asset.
Remember from the previous lesson that this
List the key information like this in your
exam will be the revalued amount of $720,000
minus the carrying amount.
because it is important to establish the
information that you do and do not The carrying amount is $403,200, which is
$560,000 minus $156,800.
have.
Therefore revaluation surplus on the 1st of
You can methodically work through and
January 20X4
calculate the missing numbers.
will be $720,000 minus $403,200, which is
Let's start with the accumulated depreciation
$316,800.
on the 1st
This will be shown in the equity section of
of January 20X4.
the Statement of Financial Position.
You know that the asset was depreciated at
The last question mark that we have is the
4% a year on a straight-line basis.
accumulated depreciation
We are not told that the asset has any
balance at the 31st of December 20X6, the
residual value
date the property is sold.
and therefore we can assume that it is nil.
You know that the accumulated depreciation
If we are depreciating at 4% a year that
account would have been cleared to zero
means
when the asset was revalued in 20X4.
that it will take 25 years to fully depreciate
Therefore the balance at the 31st of
the asset (calculated
December 20X6
as 100 divided by 4).
will simply be the depreciation from the date
Therefore, 25 years must be the useful life of of revaluation.
the asset.
This is a period of three years (all of 20X4
At the date of revaluation you know that 18 and then 20X5 and 20X6).
years remain,
You know the remaining useful life is 18
therefore the property must have been years, therefore:
depreciated for seven years.
Depreciation charge for the year is $720,000
The accumulated depreciation would divided by 18 = $40,000.
therefore be:
And the accumulated depreciation is $40,000 When an asset is revalued, as you know, the
x 3 = $120,000. gain
Therefore, the carrying amount is $600,000. is credited to the revaluation surplus account
in the Statement of Financial
You now have all the balances.
Position and does not affect profit.
Before you draw up the accounting entries
and the disposal account, This gain is what we call an unrealised gain,
which simply means that it
let's calculate the profit or loss on disposal,
has not been included in profit.
which is calculated as proceeds minus the
carrying When a revalued asset is sold, however, we
now need to recognise this gain
amount of the asset at the date of disposal
plus the revaluation in the profit of the business as it has become
realised.
surplus on the asset.
The gain is now realised because we have
Note that this is slightly different from
sold the asset for considerably more
normal disposals, in that we also
than we paid for it, and hence we need to
need to adjust for the revaluation surplus.
include (or realise) this gain.
We will now draw this up so you can see the
In this example, we originally brought the
profit on disposal.
asset for $560,000 and at the date
The proceeds of sale we know are $750,000
of valuation there was a revaluation surplus
so we start with that.
of $316,800,
From that we need to deduct carrying
which was not recognised in profit.
amount of the asset, which
Subsequently, we sold the asset for $750,000
we've already calculated as $600,000.
and on that date the carrying
Then we need to add the revaluation surplus
amount of the asset was $600,000 ($720,000
of $316,800.
valuation minus $120,000
This gives an overall profit of $466,800.
depreciation).
Clearly in this case it is a profit because the
Therefore the profit on disposal if we based
proceeds
only on the valuation carrying
are greater than the carrying amount of the
amount would be $150,000 (that's $750,000
asset,
minus $600,000).
even ignoring the revaluation surplus.
So we've made a profit of $150,000 since the
We need to think about why we add the date of valuation,
revaluation surplus into the profit
but we have also made a profit of $316,800
or loss on disposal. (which is the revaluation
surplus which has not been realised in profit This removes the revaluation surplus from
yet), the ledgers.
giving a total of $466,800 - which is what we Let's check that these entries relate back
calculated.
to the profit calculated above by drawing up
Now we have calculated the disposal we will the disposal ledger account.
record it.
Now you know how to record a disposal of a
The double entries in the ledger accounts will revalued non-current asset using
be as follows:
the information provided in an ACCA-style
Debit disposal ledger account $720,000. exam question.
Enumere la información clave como esta en será el monto revaluado de $ 720,000 menos
su examen el valor en libros.
Ahora elaboraremos esto para que pueda ver de lo que pagamos por ello, y por lo tanto
los beneficios en la eliminación. debemos incluir (o darnos cuenta) de esta
ganancia.
El producto de la venta que sabemos es de $
750,000, así que comenzamos con eso. En este ejemplo, originalmente trajimos el
activo por $ 560,000 y en la fecha
De eso tenemos que deducir el importe en
libros del activo, que de valoración había un superávit por
revaluación de $ 316,800,
ya hemos calculado como $ 600,000.
que no fue reconocido en ganancias
Entonces necesitamos agregar el superávit
de revaluación de $ 316,800. Posteriormente, vendimos el activo por $
750,000 y en esa fecha
Esto da una ganancia total de $ 466,800.
La cantidad del activo era de $ 600,000 ($
Claramente, en este caso, es una ganancia
720,000 de valoración menos $ 120,000
porque los ingresos
depreciación).
son mayores que el valor en libros del activo,
Por lo tanto, el beneficio en la eliminación si
incluso ignorando el excedente de
nos basamos solo en la valoración que lleva
revaluación.
la cantidad sería de $ 150,000 (es decir $ Luego, cargue en la cuenta del banco $
750,000 menos $ 600,000). 750,000.
Así que obtuvimos una ganancia de $ Cuenta de libro mayor de crédito $ 750,000.
150,000 desde la fecha de valoración,
Esto registra el efectivo recibido en los libros
pero también obtuvimos un beneficio de $ mayores.
316,800 (que es la revalorización
Luego, la cuenta del libro mayor de
excedente que aún no se ha obtenido en revaluación de débito $ 316,800.
ganancias),
Y una cuenta contable de eliminación de
dando un total de $ 466,800, que es lo que crédito $ 316,800.
calculamos.
Esto elimina el excedente de revaluación de
Ahora que hemos calculado la eliminación lo los libros mayores.
registraremos.
Vamos a verificar que estas entradas se
Las entradas dobles en las cuentas del libro relacionen
mayor serán las siguientes:
a la ganancia calculada anteriormente
Cuenta de caja de débito $ 720,000. mediante la elaboración de la cuenta del
libro mayor de disposición.
Cuenta de contabilidad de valoración de
propiedad de crédito $ 720,000. Ahora sabe cómo registrar una eliminación
de un activo no corriente revaluado
Esto eliminará el activo en la valoración de
utilizando
los libros mayores.
la información provista en una pregunta de
Tenga en cuenta que la cantidad que
examen de estilo ACCA.
eliminamos es en realidad