On January 1, 2017, Northeast USA Transportation Company purchased a used aircraft at a cost of $52,300,000. Northeast USA expects the plane to remain useful for five years (7,300,000 miles) and to have a residual value of $4,300,000. Northeast USA expects to fly the plane 875,000 miles the first year, 1,350,000 miles each year during the second, third, and fourth years, and 2,375,000 miles the last year. Read the requirements. 1. Compute Northeast USA's depreciation for the first two years on the plane using the straight-line method, the units-of-production method, and the double-declining balance method. a. Straight-line method

XYZ Corporation has purchased a new piece of machinery for $75,000. The piece of equipment should last for 8 years and will have a $5,000 salvage value at the end of its useful life. They plan on using the unit-of-production depreciation method. Use the production information below to calculate the estimated depreciation information for each year.  Year Units Produced 1 8,000 2 10,000 3 12,000 4 14,000 5 12,000 6 10,000 7 8,000 8 5,000

Chesterfield Constructions Ltd owns a crane which is used based on contract for many construction projects. The entity purchased the crane in April 2015 at a cost of $2,200,000. The manager estimates that the crane will work on average for 250 days each year for 10 years and then it would be sold at an estimated residual price of $200,000. By 30 June 2020 the crane had worked for 1,200 days.In July 2020 the motor of the crane started to shudder and lose power. An assessment of the crane’s motor resulted in repairs that were required to maintain the motor at its normal efficiency. The cost of $6,000 comprised labour of $4,000 and replacement parts of $2,000. The repairs were completed by the end of July 2020. The management decided that the cost would be regarded as a capital cost. At the same time management estimated that the crane would now be used for a total of 3,000 days with an estimated residual value of $90,000. In the remainder of the financial year to 2021 the crane worked…

Your company is contemplating the purchase of a large stamping machine. The machine will cost $167,000. With additional transportation and installation costs of $5,000 and $11,000, respectively, the cost basis for depreciation purposes is $183,000. Its MV at the end of five years is estimated as $34,000. The IRS has assured you that this machine will fall under a three year MACRS class life category. The justifications for this machine include $45,000 savings per year in labor and $29,000 savings per year in reduced materials. The before-tax MARR is 24% per year, and the effective income tax rate is 28%. Assume the stamping machine will be used for only three years, owing to the company's losing several government contracts. The MV at the end of year three is $47,000. What is the income tax owed at the end of year three owing to depreciation recapture (capital gain)? E Click the icon to view the GDS Recovery Rates (rg) for the 3-year property class. Choose the correct answer below. O…

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Fleet Sports purchased a production machine with a cost of $180,000 at the beginning of 2019. Transportation costs to get the machine ready were $5,000. An additional $15,000 of labor costs were incurred to assemble the machine. The equipment has an estimated life of 10 years or 100,000 snowboards (units of product). The estimated residual value is $20,000. During 2019, 17,000 snowboards (units of product) were produced with this machinery. Determine the following, and show your work: 4.What is the book value of the equipment at the end of 2020 using straight-line depreciation? 5.What is depreciation expense for the equipment at the end of 2019 using double-declining balance depreciation? 6What journal entry is needed at the end of 2020 to record depreciation expense using double-declining balance depreciation?

Van Frank Telecommunications has a patent on a cellular transmission process. The company has amortized thepatent on a straight-line basis since 2014, when it was acquired at a cost of $9 million at the beginning of thatyear. Due to rapid technological advances in the industry, management decided that the patent would benefit thecompany over a total of six years rather than the nine-year life being used to amortize its cost. The decision wasmade at the beginning of 2018.Required:Prepare the year-end journal entry for patent amortization in 2018. No amortization was recorded during the year.

Wildhorse Company manufactures a check-in kiosk with an estimated economic life of 10 years and leases it to Sheffield Chicken for a period of 9 years. The normal selling price of the equipment is $172,124, and its unguaranteed residual value at the end of the lease term is estimated to be $26,200. Sheffield will pay annual payments of $20,800 at the beginning of each year. Wildhorse incurred costs of $141,100 in manufacturing the equipment and $2,400 in sales commissions in closing the lease. Wildhorse has determined that the collectibility of the lease payments is probable and that the implicit interest rate is 5%. Sheffield Chicken has an incremental borrowing rate of 5%. The lessor's implicit rate is unknown to the lessee.

The Campbell Company is evaluating the proposed acquisition of a new milling machine. The machine’s base price is $108,000, and it would cost another $12, 500 to modify it for special use by your firm. The machine will be sold after three years for $65,000. The applicable depreciation rates are 33 percent, 45 percent, 15 percent, and 7 percent. The machine would require an increase in net operating working capital (inventory) of $5,500. The machine would have no effect on revenues, but is expected to save the firm $44,000 per year in before tax operating costs, mainly labor. Campbell’s marginal tax rate is 35 percent. What is the Net Investment (NINV)