Text: Question 6 (Note: This question is from the Week 11 Tutorial)
(11 marks)
Assume that Hunter Ltd commences operations on 1/7/2018. It explores two areas (Site East and Site West) and incurs the following costs:
Exploration & Evaluation Expenditure (Sm) 18 24 42
tangible intangible 12 6 15 9
Site East Site West Total
Other information:
- Financial year ends on 30 June.
- In the year 2018, oil is discovered at Site West.
- Site East is abandoned as no proof of existence of economically recoverable resources, and an impairment loss is recognized.
- Of Site East, $12 million relates to tangible assets, $6 million intangible assets.
- Of the $24 million of Site West, $15 million relates to tangible assets, $9 million intangible.
- Development costs of $26m are incurred at Site West in 2019.
- Out of the $26m, $16 million are property, plant, and equipment, $10 million are intangibles.
- Development costs are to be written off on a production basis in 2019 for Site West.
- Development at Site West concludes at the end of the 2019 financial year, production commences at the start of July 2020.
- It is estimated that Site West will produce 20 million barrels of oil.
- In 2020, 1.4m barrels are extracted at a production cost of $3.2m.
Required: Prepare the necessary journal entries for the costs incurred in 2018, 2019, and 2020 (using the area of-interest method of accounting).
(11 marks. Word limit: n/a)