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- July 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm #395471
During the year Peterlee acquired an iron ore mine at a cost of $6 million. In addition, when all the ore has been extracted (estimated ten years’ time) the company will face estimated costs for landscaping the area affected by the mining that have a present value of $2 million. These costs would still have to be incurred even if no further ore was extracted.
How should this $2 million future cost be recognised in the financial statements?A Provision $2 million and $2 million capitalised as part of cost of mine
B Provision $2 million and $2 million charged to operating costs
C Accrual $200,000 per annum for next ten years
D Should not be recognised as no cost has yet arisenI know that A is the correct answer. My question is: how do you account for provision in the first year and further.
Cash is down by 6 m. fixed assets are up by 6 m. So how do you account for provision?July 12, 2017 at 8:49 am #395547AnonymousInactive- Topics: 29
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You should ask this in the ‘ask the F7 tutor’ forum.
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