2. The La Salle Bus Company has decided to purchase a new bus for $95,000 with a trade-in of their old bus. The old bus has a BV
of $10,000 at the time of the trade-in. The new bus will be kept for 10 years before being sold. Its estimated SV at that time is expected to be $15,000. a. Determine which asset class of the bus.
b. Determine annual Straight-Line Depreciation charge.
Buses are 9 years recovery period class , in which it is depreciated using historical method and it has 5 years GDS class life.
b.
Straight Line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which the cost of the asset net of residual value is divided over useful life.
We will depreciate this asset for only 9 years because it has 9 years class, even it will be kept for 10 years but the depreciation charged for 9 years.
Depreciation rate = ( Cost - Salvage Value ) / useful life = ($95,000 - $15,000) / 9 = $8,889
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on how a factor of production can be employed. A free market is an economic
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privately owned businesses. Supply and demand are the main factors in a free
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The statement of retained earnings is prepared after preparing the income statement but before preparing the balance sheet. The reason behind this is that the statement of retained earnings is used to calculate the amount of retained earnings at the end of the period to be shown in the balance sheet.
