The financial statements for the Columbia Sportswear Company can be found in Appendix A at the end of this book.

Required 

Answer the following questions.

a. What was the total cost of Columbia's property, plant, and equipment at December 31, 2017?

b. What was the total accumulated depreciation at December 31, 2017?

c. What percentage of the total cost of property, plant, and equipment at December 31, 2017, was from building and improvements?

d. How much depreciation and amortization expense was taken in 2017 ?

e. What amount of property, plant, and equipment purchases (capital expenditures) occurred in \(2017 ?\)