Tanzil Enterprises uses a computer to handle its sales invoices. Lately, business has been so good that

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Tanzil Enterprises uses a computer to handle its sales invoices. Lately, business has been so good that it takes an extra 3 hours per night, plus every third Saturday, to keep up with the volume of sales invoices. Management is considering updating its computer with a faster model that would eliminate all of the overtime processing.

Current Computer New Computer Original purchase cost Accumulated depreciation Estimated annual operating costs Remaining


If sold now, the current computer would have a residual value of Rp60,000,000. If operated for the remainder of its useful life, the current computer would have zero residual value. The new computer is expected to have zero residual value after 5 years.


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Should the current computer be replaced?

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Accounting Principles

ISBN: 978-1119419617

IFRS global edition

Authors: Paul D Kimmel, Donald E Kieso Jerry J Weygandt

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