Accounting 26th Edition by Carl Warren ,Jim Reeve ,Jonathan Duchac

Exercise 12

Depreciation by two methods
A storage tank acquired at the beginning of the fiscal year at a cost of $75,000 has an estimated residual value of $10,000 and an estimated useful life of 20 years. Determine the following: (a) the amount of annual depreciation by the straight-line method and (b) the amount of depreciation for the first and second years computed by the doubledeclining- balance method.