Jack Reese, the new controller of Muckenthaler Company, has reviewed the expected useful lives and salvage values of selected depreciable assets at the beginning of 2010. Here are his findings:

a

Useful Life
(in years)

Salvage Value

Type of
Asset

Date
Acquired

Cost

Accumulated
Depreciation,
Jan. 1, 2010

Old

Proposed

Old

Proposed

Building

Jan. 1, 2002

$900,000

$172,000

40

50

$40,000

$35,000

Warehouse

Jan. 1, 2005

120,000

23,000

25

20

5,000

3,600

All assets are depreciated by the straight line method. Muckenthaler Company uses a calendar year in preparing annual financial statements. After discussion, management has agreed to accept Jack proposed changes. (The Proposed useful life is total life, not remaining life.)

Instructions

(a) Compute the revised annual depreciation on each asset in 2010. (Show computations.)

(b) Prepare the entry (or entries) to record depreciation on the building in 2010.