This document provides instructions for a short Excel project that allows students to calculate depreciation values of an asset over 10 years using various depreciation methods. Students are asked to set up a spreadsheet with labels for cost, salvage value, and life, input year numbers and the first straight-line depreciation formula, then add formulas to calculate depreciation using different methods and include totals for each column.

1. This short project in Week 7 allows students to use all of the
methods available in Excel to assess depreciation values of an
asset over a ten-year period. It represents half of the project
points for Week 7.
Start a new spreadsheet and create the layout below.
Name cell D2 "cost", name cell D3 "salvage", and cell D4
"Life".
Cells A7 through A16 contain the year number. Be sure to
reference the appropriate year for each line. Only the first line
uses A7.
Enter the five depreciation formulas into the columns. The first
SYD formula is shown from cell C7.
Provide total amounts at the bottom of each depreciation
column.