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Exercise: "E21-3, Lessee Entries; Capital Lease with Executory
Costs and Unguaranteed Residual Value"
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Assume that on January 1, 2011, Kimberly-Clark Corp. signs a 10-year noncancelable lease agreement to lease a storage building from Trevino Storage Company. The following information pertains to this lease agreement:
1. The agreement requires equal rental payments of $90,000 beginning on January 1, 2011.
2. The fair value of the building on January 1, 2011, is $5,50,000
"3. The building has an estimated economic life of 12 years, with an unguaranteed residual value of
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$10,000 Kimberly-Clark depreciates similar buildings on the straight-line method.
4. The lease is nonrenewable. At the termination of the lease, the building reverts to the lessor.
"5. Kimberly-Clark's incremental borrowing rate is 12% per year. The lessor's implicit rate is not known
by Kimberly-Clark."
6. The yearly rental payment includes $3,088.14 of executory costs related to taxes on the
property.
Instructions:
Prepare the journal entries on the lessee- books to reflect the signing of the lease agreement and to record the payments and expenses related to this lease for the years 2011 and 2012. Kimberly-Clark- corporate year end is December 31.