November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
186 pages
2h 50m
English
If a company keeps an asset until it is fully depreciated, then gets rid of it (let's say the company throws it out), this is called a retirement. The entry for a retirement removes both the asset account and the accumulated depreciation account. Let'sgo back to our example. Let's say the asset cost $50,000 and was fully depreciated (meaning that Accumulated depreciation was $50,000). The journal entry to retire the asset we would be:

If the asset is retired in the fourth year, when the accumulated depreciation is $30,000, the entry to retire the asset is:
You can see that we need a debit to balance the journal entry. The debit we ...
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