Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
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Author: David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, Daniel Viele
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.12E

Exercise 6.12 LO 3

Financial statement effects of depreciation-straight-line versus accelerated methods Assume that a company chooses an accelerated method of calculating depreciation expense for financial statement reporting purposes for an asset with a five-year life.

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State the effect (higher, lower, no effect) of accelerated depreciation relative to straight-line depreciation on:

  1. Depreciation expense in the first year.
  2. The asset’s net book value after two years.
  3. Cash flows from operations (excluding income taxes).

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