Assume that Bloomer Company purchased a new machine on January 1, 2017, for $80,000. The machine has

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Assume that Bloomer Company purchased a new machine on January 1, 2017, for $80,000. The machine has an estimated useful life of nine years and a residual value of $8,000. Bloomer has chosen to use the straight-line method of depreciation. On January 1, 2019, Bloomer discovered that the machine would not be useful beyond December 31, 2022, and estimated its value at that time to be $2,000.

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1. Calculate the depreciation expense, accumulated depreciation, and book value of the asset for each year 2017 to 2022.

2. Was the depreciation recorded wrong in 2017 and 2018? If so, why was it not corrected?

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