At the beginning of 2016, Air Asia purchased a used airplane at a cost of $40,000,000. Air Asia expects the plane to remain useful for eight years (5,000,000 miles) and to have a residual value of $5,000,000. Air Asia expects the plane to be flown 1,200,000 miles the first year and 1,400,000 miles the second year.
Requirements
1. Compute second-year (2017) depreciation expense on the plane using the following methods:
a. Straight-line
b. Units-of-production
c. Double-declining-balance
2. Calculate the balance in Accumulated Depreciation at the end of the second year for all three methods.