$\bold{\text{Team Instructions:}}$ Divide the Class into Teams of Three or Four People

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Essay

$\bold{\text{Team Instructions:}}$ Divide the class into teams of three or four people.Give the students time in class to work with their teammates and put together a final correct copy of the problem.Each team should turn in only one copy of the problem for grading.All team members will receive the same grade.
Acme Enterprise just paid $280,000 to buy ten new company cars for its salespeople to use.Acme expects to use these cars for two or three years and then replace them.
1.If Acme uses the ten cars for three years,it then expects to be able to sell them for $10,000 each.How much depreciation expense will Acme record each year using the straight-line method?
2.If Acme uses the ten cars for only two years,it then expects to be able to sell them for $12,000 each.How much depreciation expense will Acme record each year using the straight-line method?
3.If Acme has 1,000,000 weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding,how much difference will the choice of useful life make in the company's earnings per share?
4.Which useful life would be considered aggressive?
5.Which useful life would improve the quality of Acme's earnings?
6.Explain the relationship between management's choice of accounting method and a company's quality of earnings.

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