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Q2. Company ABC bought an equipment for $20,000 in 2015, with useful life of 5 years $5,000 residual value amortized using straight-line method.
Prepare a table to illustrate the differences accounting income vs taxable income caused by this equipment.
Assume, this equipment was sold at the end of2017 for $11,000. Please prepare JEs for 2015, 2016 and 2017
| Year | Book Value year start | Depreciation Exp. | Acc. Dep | Book Value year end | 
| 2015 | $20,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 | $17,000 | 
| 2016 | $17,000 | $3,000 | $6,000 | $14,000 | 
| 2017 | $14,000 | $3,000 | $9,000 | $11,000 | 
| Date | General Journal | Debit | Credit | |
| 2015 | Cash | $20,000 | ||
| Equipment | $20,000 | |||
| Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| Accumulated Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| 2016 | ||||
| Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| Accumulated Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| 2017 | ||||
| Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| Accumulated Depreciation Exp. | $3,000 | |||
| Cash | $11,000 | |||
| Accumulated Depreciation Exp. | $9,000 | |||
| Equipment | 20000 | |||
| Note: There is nothing mention about depreciation for Tax purpose and accounting | ||||
| purpose having different useful life of the equipment, so assuming the same useful | ||||
| life the equipment for tax and accounting purpose, there is a tax difference for this. | ||||