Cloud Airlines has $3 billion of assets, including airplanes costing $2.5 billion with net carrying value of

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Cloud Airlines has $3 billion of assets, including airplanes costing $2.5 billion with net carrying value of $1.6 billion. It earns net income equal to approximately 6% of total assets. Cloud Airlines depreciates its airplanes for financial reporting purposes on a straight-line basis over 10-year lives to a salvage value equal to 10% of acquisition cost. Cloud announces a change in depreciation policy; it will use 14-year lives and salvage values equal to 12% of acquisition cost. The airplanes are all four years old. Assume an income tax rate of 35%. Calculate the approximate impact on net income of the change in depreciation policy. Compute both dollar and percentage effects.

Salvage Value
Salvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important...
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Financial Accounting An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

ISBN: 978-1133591023

14th edition

Authors: Roman L. Weil, Katherine Schipper, Jennifer Francis

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