Cantac Construction purchased a piece of equipment for $40 million in early 2017.The company depreciates the equipment using the straight-line method over its useful life of 20 years,when it will have zero residual value.Cantac's income tax rate is 40%.At the end of 2020,after four years of depreciation,the company wrote down the carrying amount of the equipment from $32 million to $24 million after performing an impairment test on the cash generating unit (CGU)to which the equipment belonged.As a result of the impairment,the annual depreciation declined from $2 million to $1.5 million.In 2023,prior to recording depreciation for that year,the company's staff discovered an error in one of the formulas in the spreadsheet used to compute the value in use for the impairment test carried out at the end of 2020.Removing the error in the spreadsheet,the value in use for the CGU exceeded its carrying value.Therefore,the CGU was in fact not impaired,and Cantac should not have recorded an impairment writedown on the demolition equipment at the end of 2020.
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Prepare the journal entries to correct the error including subsequent years' depreciation and related tax effects.
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