Under What Conditions Would a Company Most Likely Adopt the Double-Declining-Balance

question 107

Multiple Choice

Under what conditions would a company most likely adopt the double-declining-balance method for financial reporting?

• A)They have high technology, robotic equipment in their plant that becomes obsolete quickly and declines in utility to the company more rapidly in the early years of the assets' lives.
• B)They want to maximize their net income during the earlier years of the assets life.
• C)They want to maximize the asset's book value in the earlier years of the asset's life.
• D)They want to maximize the total depreciation expense over the life of the asset.

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