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If a company adds 60 new workstations at a cost of $100,000 each and also spends $20 million for additional space in its camera/drone assembly facilities to accommodate more workstations, then its annual depreciation costs will rise by?
How do I know what deprecijation rate to use? *** (ie. 4% or 5%)
Sol:
Number of workstations = 60
Cost of each workstations = $100000
Additional Costs = $20000000
Computation of Total Cost = Total work stations cost + Additional costs
= ($100000 x 60) + $20000000
= $6000000 + $20000000
= $26000000
Assume, Depreciation rate is 5%
Deprecation = Total Cost x Depreciation rate
= $26000000 x 5%
= $1300000
Note: Here depreciation rate is assumed 5%, you can also assume 10%. But generally 5% is taken for unknown rate. But here we can also refer to depreciation rate table for more specific rates.