If you are keeping your books on the COST
BASIS you would show in both cases the
price actually paid.
If later on you decide to use the Estimated
Replacement Value Theory you would need to
adjust accorgingly.
In the first instance the adjustment would be as follows:-
DR Asset Account.
CR Asset Revaluation Reserve Account.
Being adjustment to line up to the market value.
If in the second instance the adjustment would be as follows:-
DR Asset Revaluation Reserve Account.
CR Asset Account
Being adjustment to line up to the market value.
NOTE WELL:-
The associated Depreciation Provision
Account would also need to be adjusted
in both instances.
These would be necessary to keep up the previous proportions.
For reading on the Estimated Asset Replacement Value Theoty
see:- Books written on the subject by Professor Raymond Chambers
Past Accounting Professor at Sydney University.