Brazil Group purchases a vehicle at a cost of $50,000 on January 2, 2014. Individual components of the vehicle and useful lives are as follows.

                             

Instructions
  (a) Compute depreciation expense for 2014, assuming Brazil depreciates the vehicle as a single unit.
  (b) Compute depreciation expense for 2014, assuming Brazil uses component depreciation.
  (c) Why might a company want to use component depreciation to depreciate its assets?