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nent CALCULATOR GE MY INSTRUCTOR FULL SCREEN PRINTER VERSION BACK NEXT Problem 21A-3 a-d (Part Level Submission) Culver Steel Company, as lessee, signed a lease agreement for equipment for 5 years, beginning December 31, 2017. Annual rental payments of $55,000 are to be made at the beginning of each lease year (December 31). The interest rate used by the lessor in setting the payment schedule is 6%; Culver's incremental borrowing rate is 8%. Culver is unaware of the rate being used by the lessor. At the end of the lease, Culver has the option to buy the equipment for $5,000, considerably below its estimated fair value at that time. The equipment has an estimated useful life of 7 years, with no salvage value. Culver uses the straight-line method of depreciation on similar owned equipment. Click here to view factor tables (a) Prepare the journal entries, that Culver should record on December 31, 2017. (Credit account titles are automatically Indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter o for the amounts. Round present value factor calculations to 5 decimal places. e.g. 1.25124 and the final answers to o decimal places, e.g. 58,971.) Debit Credit Date Account Titles and Explanation December 31, 2017 (To record feased asset and related liability) (To record the first rental payment.) Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work

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Journal Entry
Date	Account Titles	Debit	Credit
31-Dec-17	Lease Equipment Under Capital Leases (55000*PVAF @ 8% for 0-4 (55000X4.99271))	$274,599
	Lease Liability		$274,599
3 1Dec 2017	Lease Liability	$55,000
	Cash		55000