Various Depreciation Methods-First Year
on 24 March 2013 Tastee Ice

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Various depreciation methods-first year
On 24 March 2013 Tastee Ice Cream Co. purchased equipment costing $140,000, with an estimated life of 5 years and an estimated salvage value of $20,000.
Compute the depreciation expense Tastee would recognize on this equipment in 2010 assuming: $$\begin{array} { | l | l | } \hline \text { (a) Straight-line depreciation using the half-year convention } & \$ \\\hline \text { (b) } 200 \% \text { declining balance with fractional periods } & \\\hline \text { rounded to the nearest full month. } & \$ \\\hline \text { (c) } 150 \% \text {-declining-balance, using the half-year convention } & \$ \\\hline\end{array}$$

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