On January 2, 2015, Roth, Inc. purchased a laser cutting machine to be used in the fabrication of a part for one of its key products. The machine cost $90,000, and its estimated useful life was four years or 850,000 cuttings, after which it could be sold for $5,000.

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Calculate each year’s depreciation expense for the machine's useful life under each of the following depreciation methods (round all answers to the nearest dollar):

1. Straight-line.
2. Double-declining balance.
3. Units-of-production. (Assume annual production in cuttings of 200,000; 350,000; 260,000; and 40,000.)

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.