Question

Blue Corporation manufactures drones. On December 31, 2019, it leased to Althaus Company a drone that had cost $156,000 to manufacture. The lease agreement covers the 5-year useful life of the drone and requires five equal annual rentals of $52,800 payable each December 31, beginning December 31, 2019. An interest rate of 6% is implicit in the lease agreement. Collectibility of the rentals is not probable. Prepare any journal entry for Blue on December 31, 2019. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Answer 1

See the journal entries below.

Lease receivable = $235,757.58

Step-by-step explanation:

Before the journal entries are prepared, the present value of the annual rentals or lease receivable is first calculated using the formula for calculating the present value of an ordinary annuity due since the annual rentals is payable each December 31, beginning December 31, 2019 as follows:

PV = P * ((1 - (1 / (1 + r))^n) / r) * (1 + r) …………………………………. (1)

Where;

PV = Present value annual rentals or lease receivable = ?

P = Annual rentals = $52,800

r = Interest rate = 6%, or 0.06

n = number of years the lease agreement covered = 5

Substitute the values into equation (1), we have:

PV = $52,800 * ((1 - (1 / (1 + 0.06))^5) / 0.06) * (1 + 0.06)

PV = $235,757.58

The journal entries will now look as follows:

Date Account Tittle Debit ($) Credit ($)

31-Dec-19 Lease Receivable 235,757.58

Cost of Goods Sold 156,000.00

Sales Revenue 235,757.58

Inventory 156,000.00

(To record the lease.)

31-Dec-19 Cash 52,800.00

Lease Receivable 52,800.00

(To record the receipt of lease payment.)