space, and insert the amounts in the appropriate columns. For
amounts entered in the Other Accounts column, also indicate the
account titles.
Item Land Buildings Other Accounts
P10.2A (LO 2) In recent years, Avery Transportation purchased
three used buses. Because of fre- quent turnover in the accounting
department, a different accountant selected the depreciation method
for each bus, and various methods were selected. Information
concerning the buses is summarized as follows.
Totals
Land $172,500 Buildings $735,000
Compute depreciation under different methods.
Bus
1 2 3
Acquired
1/1/18 1/1/18 1/1/19
Cost
$ 96,000 110,000 92,000
Salvage Value
$ 6,000 10,000 8,000
Useful Life in Years
5 4 5
Depreciation Method
Straight-line Declining-balance Units-of-activity
Problems: Set A
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For the declining-balance method, the company uses the
double-declining rate. For the units-of-activity method, total
miles are expected to be 120,000. Actual miles of use in the first
3 years were 2019, 24,000; 2020, 34,000; and 2021, 30,000.
Instructions
a. Compute the amount of accumulated depreciation on each bus
at December 31, 2020.
b. If Bus 2 was purchased on April 1 instead of January 1,
what is the depreciation expense for this bus
in (1) 2018 and (2) 2019?