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

question 122

Multiple Choice

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

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

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Definitions:

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