Assume that a company cannot determine the market value of equipment acquired by reference to a similar purchase for cash. Explain how the company determines the cost of equipment purchased by exchanging it for each of the following 3 items: Bonds having an established market price. Bonds that do not have an established market price. Common stock not having an established market price. Similar equipment having a determinable market value.

Solution :

Let us suppose that a company cannot predict the market value of an equipment that acquired by the reference to the similar purchase for the cash. Thus the company finds cost of purchased of the equipment by exchanging :

-- the market price of the bonds when they have an established price in the market.

-- the market price of the bonds when the common stocks does not have a established market price.

-- market price of the equipment when the similar kind of an equipment have a determinable value in the market.