Fixed cost affects breakeven in units and breakeven in sales

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Managers have some flexibility in setting the estimated useful lives of depreciable assets. Explain how this could allow managers to manipulate earnings. Would depreciation be considered a variable cost or a fixed cost?Explain how a change in sales price, variable cost, or fixed cost affects breakeven in units and breakeven in sales.

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