Alice purchased office furniture on september 20, 2018, for $100,000. on october 10, 2018, she purchased business computers for $80,000. alice placed all of the assets in service on january 15, 2019. she did not elect to expense any of the assets under § 179, did not elect straight-line cost recovery, and did not take additional first-year depreciation. determine the cost recovery deduction for the business assets for 2019.

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is: