Wildhorse Company purchased a machine on July 1, 2021, for $33,040. Wildhorse paid $236 in title fees and county property tax of $148 on the machine. In addition, Wildhorse paid $590 shipping charges for delivery, and $561 was paid to a local contractor to build and wire a platform for the machine on the plant floor. The machine has an estimated useful life of 6 years with a salvage value of $3,540. Determine the depreciation base of Wildhorse’s new machine. Wildhorse uses straight-line depreciation.

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Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above