Diaz company owns a machine that cost $250,000 and has accumulated depreciation of $182,000. prepare the entry to record the disposal of the machine on january 1 in each seperate situation.

the machine needed extensive repairs and was not worth repairing. diaz disposed of the machine, receiving nothing in return.

diaz sold the machine for $35,000 cash.
diaz sold the machine for $68,000 cash.
diaz sold the machine for $80,000 cash.

A journal entry is a record of a company's or firm's financial activities kept in its accounting books. The first stage in the accounting cycle is to make a journal entry.

The sale of machine for cash is being entered in the journal, the image of the journal entries passed is attached below. Kindly go through it.

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Explanation:

The journal entries are shown below:

1. Accumulated Depreciation A/c Dr $182,000

 Loss on disposal of machine A/c Dr $68,000

         To Machine A/c                                $250,000

(Being the machine disposed off)

2. Accumulated Depreciation A/c Dr $182,000

  Loss on disposal of machine A/c Dr $33,000

  Cash A/c Dr $35,000

         To Machine A/c                                $250,000

(Being machine sold for $35,000)

3. Accumulated Depreciation A/c Dr $182,000

  Cash A/c Dr $68,000

         To Machine A/c                                $250,000

(Being machine sold for $68,000)

4. Accumulated Depreciation A/c Dr $182,000

  Cash A/c Dr $80,000

         To Machine A/c                                $250,000

         To profit on disposal of machine A/c Dr $12,000

(Being machine sold for $80,000)

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