Calculating Depreciation The Miller Company purchased a new headquarters building on January 1 at a cost of $40 million.
The building is expected to last 20 years, at which time its residual value is expected to be $5 million.
Cost of Building $ 40,000,000
Salvage Value $ 5,000,000
20 year depreciation schedule
Straight-line depreciation Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation Net Book Value (Cost of Asset less Accum. Dep)
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Double Declining depreciation [2/20 = 10%] Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation Net Book Value (Cost of Asset less Accum. Dep)
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3

Marvin wrote a check of $58.25 for the water bill and $450 for rent. he also made a deposit of $124.16. how much is his new balance after writing the checks and making the deposit?

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Reliability and validity reliability and validity are two important considerations that must be made with any type of data collection. reliability refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result. in the context of psychological research, this would mean that any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in consistent, reproducible ways. unfortunately, being consistent in measurement does not necessarily mean that you have measured something correctly. to illustrate this concept, consider a kitchen scale that would be used to measure the weight of cereal that you eat in the morning. if the scale is not properly calibrated, it may consistently under- or overestimate the amount of cereal that’s being measured. while the scale is highly reliable in producing consistent results (e. g., the same amount of cereal poured onto the scale produces the same reading each time), those results are incorrect. this is where validity comes into play. validity refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure. while any valid measure is by necessity reliable, the reverse is not necessarily true. researchers strive to use instruments that are both highly reliable and valid.