One of the most common statements about new cars is that they depreciate 10%-30% once they're driven off the dealer's lot. This statement, at least according to generally accepted accounting ...

In accrual basis accounting, when your business purchases a long-lived asset, such as a vehicle, a building or a piece of equipment, you don't immediately write off the full cost as an expense. Rather ...

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Depreciation is a calculation used to work out the value of assets over time and use. It's drawn from two essential pieces of information—how much an asset originally cost, and its "useful life." ...

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Accounting for depreciation can be a helpful accounting trick when businesses make a major purchase. Depreciation has several different meanings, depending on the context in which it’s being used.

In order to function, every business involves some form of accounting because accounting encompasses buying, selling, banking, assets, liabilities and taxes. The basics of business accounting are the ...

Under the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System, the half-year depreciation convention generally applies to personal property. Under this convention, only a half-year of depreciation is allowed ...

Now you expense it, now you don't. Any company can instantly boost earnings by playing around with depreciation assumptions. Remember the taxi company we talked about in Part 1 of this article? If ...