Judds Company purchased a new plant asset on April 1, 2014, at a cost of $711,000. It was estimated to have a service life of 20 years and a salvage value of $60,000. Judds’ accounting period is the calendar year.

Instructions
  (a) Compute the depreciation for this asset for 2014 and 2015 using the sum-of-the-years’-digits method.
  (b) Compute the depreciation for this asset for 2014 and 2015 using the double-declining-balance method.