{"id":49063,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/i-need-help-with-an-accounting-problem"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:20:25","slug":"i-need-help-with-an-accounting-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/i-need-help-with-an-accounting-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"I need help with an accounting problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem 9-7AIn recent years, Farr Company has purchased three machines. Because of frequent employee turnover in the accounting department, a different accountant was in charge of selecting the depreciation method for each machine, and various methods have been used. Information concerning the machines is summarized in the table below.<br \/>\n<b>Machine<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Acquired<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Cost<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Salvage&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Value<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Useful Life&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>(in years)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>Depreciation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Method<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1&nbsp;Jan. 1, 2012&nbsp;$136,000&nbsp;$39,700&nbsp;9&nbsp;Straight-line2&nbsp;July 1, 2013&nbsp;95,000&nbsp;11,100&nbsp;5&nbsp;Declining-balance3&nbsp;Nov. 1, 2013&nbsp;82,690&nbsp;7,890&nbsp;7&nbsp;Units-of-activity<\/p>\n<p>For the declining-balance method, Farr Company uses the double-declining rate. For the units-of-activity method, total machine hours are expected to be&nbsp;34,000. Actual hours of use in the first 3 years were: 2013,&nbsp;660; 2014,&nbsp;5,040; and 2015,&nbsp;6,300.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Compute the amount of accumulated depreciation on each machine at December 31, 2015.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>MACHINE 1<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>MACHINE 2<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>MACHINE 3<\/b>Accumulated Depreciation at December 31&nbsp;$&nbsp;$&nbsp;$&nbsp;&nbsp;LINK TO TEXTLINK TO TEXTIf machine 2 was purchased on April 1 instead of July 1, what would be the depreciation expense for this machine in 2013? In 2014?&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>2013<\/b>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>2014<\/b>Depreciation Expense&nbsp;$&nbsp;$<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem 9-7AIn recent years, Farr Company has purchased three machines. Because of frequent employee turnover in the accounting department, a different accountant was in charge of selecting the depreciation method for each machine, and various methods have been used. Information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/i-need-help-with-an-accounting-problem\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}