
Intermediate Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259722660
Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 20, Problem 20.17E
Change in estimate; useful life and residual value of equipment
• LO20–4
Wardell Company purchased a mini computer on January 1, 2016, at a cost of $40,000. The computer has been
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2. Repeat requirement 1, assuming that the company uses the sum-of-the-years’-digits method instead of the straight-line method.
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