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Who are the stakeholders in this situation? Will Benny Bensons proposed change increase, decrease, or not affect net income in 2017? 2018?

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Imporia Container Ltd. is suffering from declining sales of its main product, non-biodegradable plastic cartons. The president, Benny Benson, instructs his controller, Yeoh Siew Hoon, to change estimates relating to a processing line of automated plastic extruding equipment, purchased for $3 million in January 2016. The equipment was originally estimated to have a useful life of five years and a residual value of $200,000 and straight-line depreciation has been recorded for two years on that basis. Benny wants the estimated useful life changed to a total of seven years and the residual value raised to $500,000 in order to reduce the annual depreciation expense. Yeoh Siew is hesitant to make the change, believing it inappropriate to "manage" profits in this way. Benny says, "I'm under a lot of pressure from the shareholders to maximize net income. Don't you want your bonus, which is based on net income, to be as high as possible? Just go ahead and make the change-the useful life and residual value are only an estimate, anyway

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