Jobe Concrete Products placed a new sand sifter into production 3 years ago. It had an installed cost of $100,000, a life of 5 years, and an anticipated salvage of $20,000. Book depreciation charges for the 3 years are $40,000, $24,000, and $14,000, re­spectively. (a) Determine the book value after 2 years. (b) If the sifter’s market value today is $20,000, determine the difference between its cur­rent book value and its market value. (c) Deter­mine the total percentage of the unadjusted basis written off through year 3.

What will be an ideal response?


(a) BV2 = 100,000 – (40,000 + 24,000)
= $36,000

(b) BV3 = 100,000 – (40,000 + 24,000 +14,000) = $22,000

Difference = 22,000 - 20,000 = $2000

Market value is lower


(c) Percent written off = [(40,000 + 24,000 + 14,000)/100,000](100%)
= 78%

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