Question - On 1 July 2011 Sprintfast Couriers, which has a year-end of 30 June, purchased a delivery truck for use in its courier operations at a cost of $65 000. At the end of the truck's useful life it is expected to have a residual value of $5000. During its six-year useful life, Sprintfast Couriers Limited expected the truck to be driven 246 000 kilometres
REQUIRED - Calculate the annual depreciation charge for each of the six years of the truck's life using the following methods:
(a) the straight-line method
(b) the sum-of-digits method
(c) the declining-balance method
(d) the units-of-production method using kilometres as the basis of use and assuming the following usage:
Year Kilometres
2012 28 000
2013 34 000
2014 42 000
2015 55 000
2016 68 000
2017 19 000
246 000