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Big Limited entered into a non-cancellable, seven-year lease agreement with Small Limited on 1 January 2020. The lease was for a factory equipment that is expected to have an economic life of eight years, after which time it will have no salvage value. There is a bargain option, which Small Limited will be able to exercise at the end of the seventh year, for $140,000. Big Limited manufactured the equipment at a cost of $3,200,000. There are to be seven annual instalments of $1,300,000 per annum to be paid at the end of each year. Included in the annual lease payment is an amount of $20,000 per annum representing payment to Big Limited for the insurance and maintenance of the equipment. The equipment is to be depreciated using straight-line method. The rate of interest implicit in the lease is 15 per cent. The journal entries in the books of Big Limited to record the annual lease payments received as at 31 December 2020 are: