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October 31, 2023
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Journal Entry for purhcase of new vehicle with a trade in and loan.

  • October 31, 2023
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Hello,

would gladly appreciate any help with a Journal entry for purchase of new Vehicle.

Old vehicle Price: 104,199.28

Fully depreciated at time of trade in

trade in allowance: 51,000

Old loan balance: 59,374.07

 

New Vehicle Price:49,193.85 

New Loan: 49,[removed].07(old loan) = 57,567.92

 

Thanks!

 

 

Best answer by Rainflurry

@david088 

 

That makes more sense.  Here is the journal entry:

 

 DebitCredit
New Vehicle49,193.85 
Loan Payable (old loan)59,374.07 
Accumulated Depreciation104,199.88 
     Old Vehicle 104,199.88
     Loan payable (new loan) 57,567.92
     Gain on Sale of Asset 51,000.00

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Rainflurry
October 31, 2023

@david088 

 

Your post is a bit confusing because there are two values for the old loan ($59,374.07 & $57,567.92) and a portion of the new loan was removed from your post for some reason ($49,XXX.07). 

 

Also, if you received $51K on the trade and they paid off your loan of $59K or $57K, you should owe them $6K or $8K.  That should have been rolled into the new loan or, if not, made up the difference in cash.  It doesn't appear that either of those happened. 

 

Here is the journal entry with the info provided.  I used the old loan value of $57,567.92.  You can adjust that up and decrease the gain if the loan payoff was $59,374.07.  You will need to add the proper amount for the new loan since that was incomplete in your post.  Again, offset the difference to gain.  Debits and credits need to be equal.

 

 DebitCredit
New Vehicle (fixed asset)49,193.85 
Loan Payable (old loan - to close)57,567.92 
Accumulated Depreciation104,199.88 
     Old Vehicle (fixed asset - to close) 104,199.88
     Loan Payable (new loan)      49,000.07
     Gain on Sale of Asset (other income) 57,761.70

 

 

Rainflurry
November 1, 2023

@david088 

 

EDIT:  If you increase the old loan payoff amount, you will need to increase the gain, not decrease it as I previously stated.