On july 1, 2015, rex purchases a new automobile for $40,000. he uses the car 80% for business and drives the car as follows: 8,000 miles in 2015, 19,000 miles in 2016, 20,000 miles in 2017, and 15,000 miles in 2018. determine rex’s basis in the business portion of the auto as of january 1, 2019, under the following assumptions: a. rex uses the automatic mileage method. b. rex uses the actual cost method. [assume that no § 179 expensing is claimed and that 200% declining-balance cost recovery with the half-year convention is used—see chapter 8. the recovery limitation for an auto placed in service in 2015 is as follows: a. $3,160 (first year), b. $5,100 (second year), c. $3,050 (third year), and d. $1,875 (fourth year).

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.