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 pollycat11
Jul 4, 2012, 01:39 PM
What is the Straight-line, Units of Production, and double declining balance if I were to purchase a business for $55 million dollars.  I expect the business to remain useful for 10 years (1,000,000 miles) and to have a risidual value of $5 million.  
I put 80,000 miles on the ship the first year and 115,000 miles the second year.  How would I compute my businesse's first and second year depreciation?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
 paraclete
Jul 4, 2012, 04:07 PM
What is the Straight-line, Units of Production, and double declining balance if I were to purchase a business for $55 million dollars.  I expect the business to remain useful for 10 years (1,000,000 miles) and to have a risidual value of $5 million.  
I put 80,000 miles on the ship the first year and 115,000 miles the second year.  How would I compute my businesse's first and second year depreciation?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
the straight line method is to determine the useful life and strike a rate in this case 1/10
 
the units of production method requires you amortise the value  by the proportion utilised
50,000,000/1,000,000*usage
 
the double declining method means you apply the rate chosen to a decling methodology but double the rate each year so in each year you will charge 20% of the written down balance
 pollycat11
Jul 4, 2012, 04:54 PM
Thank you
 
 
the straight line method is to determine the useful life and strike a rate in this case 1/10
 
the units of production method requires you amortise the value  by the proportion utilised
50,000,000/1,000,000*usage
 
the double declining method means you apply the rate chosen to a decling methodology but double the rate each year so in each year you will charge 20% of the written down balance