John Dorian owns Dorians Copy Center, which provides a 24-hour printing and copying service to the community
Question:
John Dorian owns Dorians Copy Center, which provides a 24-hour printing and copying service to the community and college students in town. The most recent industrial copy machine the company acquired was for $25,000. John estimates the residual value to be $3,000 at the end of its useful life of seven years and estimates 1,000,000 copies to be made on the machine during that time. The following shows the number of copies made during the seven years of operating the machine:
Year 1126,000
Year 2155,000
Year 3162,000
Year 4133,000
Year 5171,000
Year 6143,000
Year 7139,000
What is the amount of depreciation expense recorded in the second year of operations if Dorians Copy Center was using the units-of-production method?
a. $3,875
b. $3,150
c. $3,410
d. $2,772