Question

Cameron industries is purchasing a new chemical vapor depositor in order to make silicon chips. it will cost $ 4 million$4 million to buy the machine and $ 15 comma 000$15,000 to have it delivered and installed. building a clean room in the plant for the machine will cost an additional $ 3 million.$3 million. the machine is expected to have a working life of sevenseven years. if​ straight-line depreciation is​ used, what are the yearly depreciation expenses in this​ case

Answer 1

On basis of straight-line depreciation method,

Yearly depreciation expense = [Cost of investment - Salvage value] / life

In the current case, salvage vale is assumed to be $0 and the life is 7 years.

Total investment = $4 m + $ (15,000/1,000,000) m + $3 m = $7.015 m

Therefore,
Yearly depreciation expense = 7.015/7 ≈ $1.002 m