Calculating Units-of-Production Depreciation Swift Trucking Company purchased a long-haul tractor-trailer for $600,000 at the beginning of the year. The expected useful life of the tractor-trailer rig was 8 years or 500,000 miles. Salvage value was estimated to be $80,000. During the first 5 years of use, the rig logged the following usage in miles:
Year 180,000miles
Year 275,000miles
Year 380,000miles
Year 476,000miles
Year 560,000miles
Total371,000miles
Calculate the depreciation expense to be taken on the tractor-trailer for each year using:
(a) Units-of-production method
(b) Straight-line method
Which method gives you higher total depreciation charges over the five-year period?

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a. in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b. if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

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Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805