How do you determine which method of depreciation is most appropriate?

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The answer depends on the type of asset being depreciated. Tax laws allow different depreciation methods for different kinds of assets and different situations. In general, you want to choose the depreciation method that most accurately describes the financial status of the company. In tax statements, depreciation appears as an expense that is subtracted from the company's earnings. So, if you accelerate the depreciation of an asset in the early years of use, you might be underestimating the company's profits, making it appear that the company is less profitable than it actually is. On the other hand, depreciating an asset slowly could make it appear that the company is more profitable than it really is. For this reason, the choice of a depreciation method is best left to a tax accountant, fully aware of the financial issues and the tax laws involved in depreciating an asset.

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Apply the scripting concepts introduced in this chapter to create a scroll box. Include a text box and two buttons in the mov- ie. Use the buttons to control the scrolling of the text in the text box. [Hint: Create a movie with two layers. In the one layer, place the text box and the two buttons. One of the buttons should increase the value of the variable your-textbox-name.scroll by 1 each time it is pressed and the other should decrease its value by 1 when it is pressed. The variable your-textbox-name should be changed according to the name you gave to your text box. In other words, if the text box was named box the buttons would alter the variable named box.scroll.

Set Variable: "your-textbox-name.scroll" = "1" Set Variable: "your-textbox-name" = "This text will be dispplayed in the scrolling textbox"

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A particular query can have several formulations, and a query optimizer may produce di?erent query plans with di?erent costs for each.

a. Assume that the Computer Science Department teaches only three 100-level courses: CS110, CS113, and CS114. Write an SQL statement whose result set contains the course codes of all courses that have these as prerequisites in three ways: using OR, UNION, and a nested subquery involving LIKE. b. Write an SQL statement whose result set contains the names of all computer science courses that are prerequisites to other courses in three ways: using a join, a nested subquery involving EXISTS, and a nested subquery involving IN.

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What is dithering?

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Most computers have temporary holding areas called __________.

A. output B. microprocessor C. CPU D. RAM

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