Taco hut purchased equipment on may 1, 2018, for $15,000. residual value at the end of an estimated 8-year service life is expected to be $4,000.
calculate depreciation expense using the straight-line method for 2018 and 2019, assuming a december 31 year-end. (do not round your intermediate calculations. round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.