Fresh Air Anti-Pollution Company is suffering declining sa

Fresh Air Anti-Pollution Company is suffering declining sales of its principal product non-biodegradable plastic cartons. The president Tyler Weber instructs his controller Robin Cain to lengthen asset lives to reduce depreciation expense. A processing line of automated plastic extruding equipment purchased for $3.5 million in January 2014 was originally estimated to have a useful life of eight years and a salvage value of $400000. Depreciation has been recorded for two years on that basis. Tyler wants the estimated life changed to 12 years total and the straight-line method continued. Robin is hesitant to make the change believing it is unethical to increase net income in this manner. Tyler says Hey the life is only an estimate and Ive heard that our competition uses a 12-year life on their production equipment.

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