Gansac Publishing Company signed a contract with an author to publish her book. The signing took place on January

1, 2016, and a payment of $20,000 was made to obtain a copyright. Gansac expects to sell 200,000 books evenly between 2016 and 2020 at a price of $10 per book.

What would the journal entries be to record the events related to the copyright and sales of the book during 2016 and 2017, assuming that sales were as projected.

How would the answer change if Gansac expected sales of the book to be 100,000 copies in 2016, 70,000 copies in 2017, and 30,000 copies over the remainder of the copyright’s useful life?

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