Question

At the beginning of 2017, your company buys a $34,000 piece of equipment that it expects to use for 4 years. The equipment has an estimated residual value of $2,000. The company expects to produce a total of 200,000 units. Actual production is as follows: 41,000 units in 2017, 49,000 units in 2018, 45,000 units in 2019, and 65,000 units in 2020.

Required:
a. Determine the depreciable cost.
b. Calculate the depreciation expense per year under the straight-line method.
c. Use the straight-line method to prepare a depreciation schedule.
d. Calculate the depreciation rate per unit under the units-of-production method.
e. Use the units-of-production method to prepare a depreciation schedule.

Answer 1

32,000

8000

see below

.16

see below

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm not really sure what the schedule is supposed to look like (im not good at accounting) exactly but i whipped up something real quick in excel and if you have any questions ask

the depreciable cost is just cost-salvage (the amount that's going to be depreciated) so for us its 34000-2000 or 32,000

the depreciation expense is just the depreciable cost divided by the useful live (32,000/4)=8000

see my attempt at a depreciation schedule below

The deprecation rate per unit is the depreciable cost divided by the total units

32000/200000= .16

and you can see below my attempt at the units of production schedule