$($Accounting for Trade Name$)$ In early January $2024,$ Outkast Corporation applied for a trade name, incurring legal costs of $$17,400.$ In January $2025,$ Outkast incurred $$9,000$ of legal fees in a successful defense of its trade name.

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$1.$ Compute $2024$ amortization, $12/31/24$ book value, $2025$ amortization, and $12/31/25$ book value if the company amortizes the trade name over $10$ years.

$2.$ Compute the $2025$ amortization and the $12/31/25$ book value, assuming that at the beginning of $2025,$ Outkast determines that the trade name will provide no future benefits beyond December $31,2028.$

$3.$ Ignoring the response for part $($b$),$ compute the $2026$ amortization and the $12/31/26$ book value, assuming that at the beginning of $2026,$ based on new market research, Outkast determines that the fair value of the trade name is $$16,000.$ Estimated total future cash flows from the trade name is $$117,200$ on January $3,2026.$