DEPRECIATION METHODS
Clearcopy, a printing company, acquired a new press on January 1, 2009. The press cost $171,600 and had an expected life of eight years or 4,500,000 pages and an expected re- sidual value of $15,000. Clearcopy printed 675,000 pages in 2009.
Required:
1. Compute 2009 depreciation expense using the:
a. straight-line method
b. double-declining-balance method
c. units-of-production method
2. What is the book value of the machine at the end of 2009?