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Minor Corp.purchased a machine on January 1, 2014, for $600,000.The machine is being depreciated on a straight-line basis, using an estimated useful life of six years and no residual value.On January 1, 2017, Minor determined, as a result of additional information, that the machine had an estimated useful life of eight years from the date of acquisition with no residual value.An accounting change was made in 2017 to reflect this additional information.
-Assuming that the direct effects of this change are limited to the effect on depreciation and the related tax provision, and that the income tax rate for all years since the machine was purchased was 30%, what should be reported in the income statement for calendar 2017 as the cumulative effect on prior years of changing the estimated useful life of the machine?


A) $0
B) $40,000
C) $60,000
D) $210,000

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