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River County is planning to purchase of two new garbage trucks at $150,000 each, one new bulldozer at $240,000, and three new riding lawn mowers at $16,000 each. They also plan to build an activity center in the downtown area for $650,000. The expected life of the garbage trucks is ten years, eight years for the bulldozer, five years for the lawn mowers, and forty years for the activity center.

Create a report that will be their capital budget, showing items to be obtained, their life and the total costs.

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Three paragraphs describe the budget and the excel file contains a schedule of acquisitions, the capital expenditure budget, and a place for budgeting the inflows to cover the budget.

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The capital budget for next year is $1,238,000. This is the cost of equipment and buildings that will last from five to 40 years. While there may be maintenance costs, capital costs to replacement them are far off. The schedule of items to be acquired is ...

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