Question: Accounting for depletion of natural resources South Shore Petroleum holds huge reserves of oil assets. Assume that at the end of 2016, South Shore Petroleum's cost of oil reserves totaled $72,000,000,000, representing 9,000,000,000 barrels of oil.
Requirements: 1. Which method does South Shore Petroleum use to compute depletion?
2. Suppose South Shore Petroleum removed and sold 400,000,000 barrels of oil during 2017. Journalize depletion expense for 2017.