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    Jul 4, 2012, 01:39 PM
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    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.
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    Jul 4, 2012, 04:07 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by pollycat11 View Post
    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
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    Jul 4, 2012, 04:54 PM
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    Quote Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    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

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