ELEMENTS OF DEPRECIATION COMPUTATION Depreciation accounting may be defined as a systematic procedure for allocating the cost of a long-lived asset over its useful life. The determination of the depreciation expense of a period depends on three basic elements. These are: • Depreciation Base. The cost to be allocated over the period of use is known as the depreciation base. This consists of the initial purchase cost of the asset minus any salvage value expected at the time of retirement plus
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project’s estimated economic life is 5 years. RIC’s marketing vice-president believes that annual sales would be 30‚000 units if the units were priced at $3‚000 each. RIC expects no growth in unit sales‚ and it believes that the unit price will rise by 2 percent each year. c. The engineering department has reported that the project will require additional manufacturing space‚ and RIC currently has an option to purchase an existing building‚ at a cost of $10 million‚ which would meet this need. The building
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February 13‚ 2013 Spring‚ 2013 Depreciation: Airplanes and Garbage Trucks Your answers to the questions below should be clear‚ well-written‚ free of grammar and spelling errors‚ double-spaced with margins of at least one inch on all sides‚ and word-processed. In preparing this assignment‚ you may discuss the issues with each other or with anyone else‚ but your written answers must be your own work. If you need to quote someone else in your answer‚ you must give credit to your source. This
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Use of Accelerated Depreciation Methods Allows Shifting of Income The past two decades of tax law have created more opportunities than ever for business owners to defer tax amounts. Today‚ it is common practice for businesses to rely on accelerated depreciation to help lessen the burden of taxes imposed on corporate profits‚ and also shift their income to ethically maximize financial growth. For the purpose of accounting‚ accelerated depreciation intends to reflect how much of the corporation’s
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Vital Spark is 25 years old and badly in need of an overhaul. Peter Handy‚ the finance director‚ has just been presented with a proposal that would require the following expenditures: Mr. Handy believes that all these outlays could be depreciated for tax purposes in the seven-year MACRS class. NETCO ’s chief engineer‚ McPhail‚ estimates the postoverhaul operating costs as follows: These costs generally increase with inflation‚ which is forecasted at 2.5% a year. The Vital
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purchased a set of 4 computers by the beginning of Year N+1. Its purchasing price is 15 million VND per item (excluding VAT). The total transportation and testing cost is 5 million VND. Their estimated useful life is 5 years. Required: 1. You are asked to create a depreciation table for these equipments‚ using these following methods: a. Straight line method b. Double declining balance method c. Sum of years’ digits method 2. Compare their depreciation expenses and rates‚ then comment on their capital recovery
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with purchase of new assets comes the frequently heard term i.e. depreciation! All of us must have heard about depreciation and know that it is deducted before arriving at Net Profit. However‚ not many of us are aware of its nitty-gritty’s and the part that it plays in determining the profits of a company. In fact many of us completely ignore analyzing this important parameter. However‚ with considerably flexibility over how depreciation is calculated‚ it is one of the easiest figures to manipulate
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$17‚100 and that for the pulley system is $22‚430. The firm’s cost of capital is 14%. After-tax cash flows‚ including depreciation‚ are as follows: Year Truck Pulley 1 $5‚100 $7‚500 2 $5‚100 $7‚500 3 $5‚100 $7‚500 4 $5‚100 $7‚500 5 $5‚100 $7‚500 Calculate the IRR‚ the NPV‚ and the MIRR for each project‚ and indicate the correct accept-reject decision for each. Year Truck Pulley 0 -$17‚200 -$22‚430 1 $5‚100 $7‚500 2 $5‚100 $7‚500 3 $5‚100 $7‚500 4 $5‚100 $7‚500 5 $5
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Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines Acct 531 – Intermediate Finance Acct 1 SECTION 1 – 13WQ Instructor: John V. Merle‚ MBA February 27‚ 2013 Emma Waage Roarke Stone Tim Gould Introduction Depreciation expense is the way that the use of an asset is matched with the revenue that is generated from the asset on the income statement during the time period being reported. Each asset used in a business has a useful life as disclosed by the company’s depreciation
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Accounting Depreciation at Delta Airlines & Singapore Airlines (Solution to Case #2) 24th November‚ 2009 1. Calculate the annual depreciation expense that Delta and Singapore would record for each $100 gross value of aircraft. a. Delta: i. Prior to July 1‚ 1986 the Delta airline assets were depreciated using Straight Line Method at 10% for 10 years for a salvage value of 10%. Depreciation Expense = (Cost of Asset – Salvage Value) / number of year Depreciation Expense
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