Question

On January 1, 2022, the Sheridan Company ledger shows Equipment $49,700 and Accumulated Depreciation $18,280. The depreciation resulted from using the straight-line method with a useful life of 10 years and a salvage value of $4,000. On this date, the company concludes that the equipment has a remaining useful life of only 2 years with the same salvage value.Compute the revised annual depreciation.

Answer 1

Answer:

revised annual depreciation will be : 13710

Explanation:

After revision the remaining life of equipment shrank down to 2 years, so the depreciation working will be worked out to adjusted the impact of decreasing of useful life.

As per existing information the depreciation charges are calculated as :

(Cost-Salvage Value)/Useful life= (49700-4000)/10 = 4570

Accumulated Depreciation indicates that 4 years have past by (18280/4570)

now remaining years are 6 which will be reduced to 2 after revision so the new working will be as follows:

Remaining Cost :31420  (49700 -18280)

Salvage Value : 4000

Revised Remaining Useful Life  : 2

Revised Calculated Depreciation Annual  : (31420-4000)/2 = 13710

It can be further verified through simple math also:

Adding annual depreciation of remaining 2 years : 13710 +13710 =27420

Value available for depreciation after salvage value : 31420 -4000= 27420