ABC Company has an equipment costing P 700,000 with an estimated residual value of P 70,000 and an estimated useful life of six years. After using and depreciating the asset for the past two years, the company upgraded the machine parts and the cost of upgrading amounted to P 120,000. Assuming that the upgrading costs improved the quality of the asset's output, what is the revised depreciation expense for the third year using the straight-line method?     a.P 152,500 b.P 116,666.67 c.P 105,000 d.P 135,000

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ABC Company has an equipment costing P 700,000 with an estimated residual value of P 70,000 and an estimated useful life of six years. After using and depreciating the asset for the past two years, the company upgraded the machine parts and the cost of upgrading amounted to P 120,000. Assuming that the upgrading costs improved the quality of the asset's output, what is the revised depreciation expense for the third year using the straight-line method?
 
 
a.P 152,500
b.P 116,666.67
c.P 105,000
d.P 135,000
 
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