At June 1, 2018 Billy’s Fitness Company purchased new exercise equipment for its facility. The following information refers to the purchase and installation of this equipment:
• The list price of the equipment was $640,000 less a cash discount of 5%.
Billy’s Fitness Company paid sales taxes of $36,480 at the date of purchase.
• Transportation charges for delivery of the equipment totaled $2,200.
• Costs for installation and test runs to ready the equipment for customer use
amounted to $1,600.
• Normal maintenance costs for the exercise equipment in June 2018 were $875.
Requirement:
For each of the bulleted items above, indicate which items should be included by Billy’s
Fitness Company as a part of the total cost of its Exercise Equipment account. Also briefly
indicate the proper accounting treatment of those items that are not included in the cost of
the Exercise Equipment