How do I treat the treatment of a Plant & Machinery (fixed asset) donated to our company. What acounts do I debit and credit for this? What value do I reflect in the books of account since we did not pay for the asset with cash?

You'd record at fair value first of all. Second, if the party who donated it has no claim on anything, that is, something that would cause it to be consider capital, then it's revenue. Or at least GAAP-wise it is.

MORGAINE,

Thx. So what do we then debit & credit if the party who donated it has no claim on anything to be considered capital?

Will this do:

DR - FIXED ASSET (PLANT&MACHINERY)
CR - INCOME

Recorded at fair value of course

WILL THIS DO?

Yes, that'll do. If it were me, I'd want to put a title on that income, just something like donations or contribution income or whatnot. Given that it's plant assets they've donated, I think it's probably material enough to not be lumped into some miscellaneous income account.

Thx a lot morgaine. You have been most helpful.

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Mine is [email protected]. Drop me a line so I can have your email ad.

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You can always PM me -- What is that? PM? I didn't get that.

Ok Morgaine.

I guess we always meet here.

Thanks a lot.

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