Question

The Digby Company has just purchased $40,900,000 of plant and equipment that has an estimated useful life of 15 years. The expected salvage value at the end of 15 years is $4,090,000. What will the accumulated depreciation expense for this purchase (exclude all other plant and equipment) be after its second year of use

Answer 1

$4,908,000

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of accumulated depreciation expense for this purchase is shown below:-

Depreciation expense = ((Cost of machine - Salvage) ÷ Estimated useful life of machine)

= (($40,900,000 - $4,090,000) ÷ 15) × 2

= $36,810,000 ÷ 15 × 2

= $4,908,000

Therefore for computing the depreciation expense we simply applied the above formula.