Use the table below to answer this question. MACRS 5-year property
Year Rate
1 20.00%
2 32.00%
3 19.20%
4 11.52%
5 11.52%
6 5.76%
Sun Lee's Furniture just purchased some fixed assets classified as 5-year property for MACRS. The assets cost $39,000. What is the amount of the depreciation expense for the third year?
a) $7,488
b) $12,480
c) $6,240
d) $3,744
e) $4,493

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is: