Purpose:  This exercise will provide an illustration of the computations for depreciation of partial periods using three common methods.

Kalidas Company purchased a new plant asset on April 1, 2014, at a cost of $345,000. It was estimated to have a service life of 20 years and a salvage value of $30,000. Kalidas uses the calendar year as its accounting period.

Instructions (Round all final answers to the nearest dollar.)

(a) Compute the amount of depreciation for this asset for 2014 and 2015 using the straight- line method.

(b) Compute the amount of depreciation for this asset for 2014 and 2015 using the sum-of- the-years'-digits method.

(c) Compute the amount of depreciation for this asset for 2014 and 2015 using the double- declining balance method.