how to find the depreciation of an object and the amount it goes down each year Data: At the beginning of the year, you purchased a piece of machinery for $448,000. You also had to pay sales tax of $24,200, freight of $1,400, shipping insurance of $200, and installation of $6,200. Asset cost = ? You estimate that the machinery will have a life of 5 years or 400,000 units produced and a residual value of $40,000. You will produce 0 100,000 unitls in the first year and then the units produced will decrease each year by 10,000 from the previous year. 2 Using the information above, complete the depreciation tables below for each depreciation method. 3 4 STRAIGHT LINE asset cost - residual 15 DATE ASSET DEPREC DEPRECIABLE DEPREC ACCUM BOOK 16 COST RATE BASE EXPENSE DEPREC VALUE 17 BEG YR1 18 END YR 1 19 END YR 2 20 END YR3 21 END YR 4 22 END YR 5 23 24