Yukon Productions Corp. purchased equipment on March 1, 2015, for $70,000. The company estimated the equipment would have a useful life of three years and produce 12,000 units, with a residual value of $10,000. During 2015, the equipment produced 4,900 units. On November 30, 2016, the machine was sold for $18,000 and had produced 5,600 units that year.

Instructions

(a) Record all the necessary journal entries for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2016, using the following depreciation methods:

(1) Straight-line,

(2) Single-diminishing-balance,

(3) Units-of-production.

(b) Complete the following schedule for each method of depreciation and compare the total expense over the two-year period.

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Straight-Line Diminishing-Balance Units-of-Production Depreciation expense 2015 2016 Total depreciation expense for two years +Loss (or- gain) on disposal = Net expense for two years