Question: West Perth Ltd commences operations on 1/7/2013. They explore two areas and incur the following costs; Exploration Evaluation Expenditure...

Question:West Perth Ltd commences operations on 1/7/2013. They explore two areas and incur the

following costs;

Exploration & Evaluation Expenditure ($m)

Site Crawley 10.2 Site Northbridge 14.8 Total 25.0

Other information:

•  Financial year finishes 30/6/xx
•  In Financial year of 2015, oil is discovered at Site Northbridge.
•  Of Site Crawley, $7.2 million relates to tangible assets, $3 million to intangible assets.
•  Site Crawley is abandoned as no economically-viable value (recoverable resources) exists and an impairment loss is recognised.
•  Of the $14.8 million (Site Northbridge), $13 million relates to tangible assets, $1.8 million to intangible.
•  Development costs - $10.5million are property, plant and equipment, $3.5 million are in intangibles.
•  Development at Site Northbridge concludes at the end of 2015, production commences start of 2016.
•  Development costs - are to be written off on a production basis in 2015 for Site Northbridge.
•  It is estimated that Site Northbridge will produce 8 million barrels of oil, current price is $80 per barrel.
•  In 2016, 400,000 barrels are extracted; production cost is $3.9 million. Sales for 2016 are 350,000 barrels

Required:

1. a) Prepare the journal entries for the costs incurred 2014, 2015 and 2016 (using the
2. area-of-interest method of accounting).
3. b) Explain the difference between Area of Interest method and Full-cost method?