On January 1, 2016, Golden Company purchased a new computer system for $50,000. Management estimates that the system will have a 5-year life and a salvage value of $7,500. Jane Golden, the company president, knows that the system can be depreciated using either the straight-line method or the double-declining method. She is concerned as to the possible effect on various financial statement analyses if the company uses one method versus the other. Required: a) Determine which method will have the larger negative effect (in other words, the less favorable effect) on each of the following ratios in 2016: Debt to equity ratio Return on sales (net income/sales) b) Determine which method will have the larger negative effect on each of the following ratios in 2018: Debt to equity ratio Return on sales