Excel Applications for Accounting Principles
Excel Applications for Accounting Principles
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ISBN: 9781111581565
Author: Gaylord N. Smith
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 9, Problem 4R

To test your formulas, assume the machine purchased had an estimated useful life of three years (20,000, 30,000, and 50,000 hours, respectively). Enter the new information in the Data Section of the worksheet. Does your depreciation total $320,000 under all three methods?

There are three common errors made by students completing this worksheet. Letʼs clear up two of them. One, an asset that has a three-year life should have no depreciation claimed in Year 4. This can be corrected using an =IF statement in Year 4. For example, the correct formula in cell C32 is =IF(B32>D9,0,(D7–D8)/D9) or =IF(B32>D9, 0, SLN(D7, D8, D9)). You may wish to edit what you have already entered rather than retype it.

Two, as mentioned in requirement 2, the double-declining-balance calculation needs to be modified in the last year of the assetʼs life. Assuming you have already modified the formula for Year 4 (per instructions in step 2), alter the formula for Year 3 also.

If you corrected any formulas, test their correctness by trying different estimated useful lives (between 3 and 8) in cell E9. Then reset the Data Section to the original values, save the revised file as DEPREC2, and reprint the worksheet to show the correct formulas.

The third common error doesnʼt need to be corrected in this problem. The general form of the double-declining-balance formula needs to be modified to check the net book value of the asset each year to make sure it does not go below salvage value. =DDB does this automatically, but if you are writing your own formulas, this gets very complicated and is beyond the scope of the problem.

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