Required: 1. Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life. 2. Are changes in depreciation methods accounted for retrospectively or prospectively?
Required: 1. Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life. 2. Are changes in depreciation methods accounted for retrospectively or prospectively?
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Transcribed Image Text:On January 2, 2021, the Jackson Company purchased equipment to be used in its manufacturing process. The equipment has an
estimated life of eight years and an estimated residual value of $43,625. The expenditures made to acquire the asset were as follows:
Purchase price
Freight charges.
Installation charges
Jackson's policy is to use the double-declining-balance (DDB) method of depreciation in the early years of the equipment's life and
then switch to straight line halfway through the equipment's life.
Required:
1. Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life.
2. Are changes in depreciation methods accounted for retrospectively or prospectively?
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Required 1 Required 2
Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life.
Depreciation for the Period
Year
2021
2022
2023
2024
$198,000
5,200
8,000
Beginning of
Period Book
Value
Year
Depreciation
Rate
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Total
%
%
%
%
Required 2
Beginning of
Perlod Book
Value
Annual
Depreciation
Jackson's policy is to use the double-declining-balance (DDB) method of depreciation in the early years of the equipment's life and
then switch to straight line halfway through the equipment's life.
Required:
1. Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life.
2. Are changes in depreciation methods accounted for retrospectively or prospectively?
Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
Required 1
Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life.
Depreciation for the Period
Depreciation
Rate
%
%
%
%
End of Period
Accumulated
Depreciation
Annual
Depreciation
$
0
0
< Required 1
Book Value
Accumulated
Depreciation
End of Period
0
0
Book Value
0
0
Required 2 >
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