Salem Company Hired Kirk Construction to Construct an Office Building

Multiple Choice

Salem Company hired Kirk Construction to construct an office building for £6,400,000 on land costing £1,600,000, which Salem Company owned. The building was complete and ready to be used on January 1, 2015 and it has a useful life of 40 years. The price of the building included land improvements costing £480,000 and personal property costing £600,000. The useful lives of the land improvements and the personal property are 10 years and 5 years, respectively. Salem Company uses component depreciation, and the company uses straight-line depreciation for other similar assets. What total amount of depreciation expense would Salem Company report on its income statement for the year ended December 31, 2015?

A) £268,000
B) £160,000
C) £341,000
D) £301,000