Mink Corporation purchases new office furniture for $7,200,000 on January 1, 2022. Mink estimates that the furniture has a $400,000 residual value and a useful life of 8 years. Mink uses the straight-line method to record depreciation. Assume that on January 1, 2026, after 4 years, Mink realizes that the machine remaining useful life is 10 years and residual value is $200,000. A depreciation schedule would show depreciation expense for 2026.

The deprecation expense for 2026 would be $360,000.

The first step is to determine the accumulated deprecation up until 2026.

Straight line depreciation expense = (Cost of asset - Salvage value) / useful life

($7,200,000 - $400,000) / 8 = $850,000

Accumulated depreciation = $850,000 x 4 = $3,400,000

Book value at the beginning of 2026 = $7,200,000 - $3,400,000 = $3,800,000

Deprecation expense = ($3,800,000 - $200,000) / 10 = $360,000

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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