Calculate depreciation for each year of the assets

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On January 2, 2011, the Jackson Company purchased equipment to be used in its manufacturing process. The equipment has an estimated life of eight years and an estimated residual value of $30,625. The expenditures made to acquire the asset were as follows:

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Jackson's policy is to use the double-declining-balance (DDB) method of depreciation in the early years of the equipment's life and then switch to straight line halfway through the equipment's life.

Required:

1. Calculate depreciation for each year of the asset's eight-year life.

2. Discuss the accounting treatment of the depreciation on the equipment. 

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