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Depreciation — Not to be confused with Deprecation. Depreciation refers to two very different but related concepts: the decrease in value of assets (fair value depreciation), and the allocation of the cost of assets to periods in which the assets are used… … Wikipedia
depreciation — The amount by which a fixed asset s accounting or book value is periodically reduced to reflect the fact that the economic value of the asset is steadily reduced by a combination of wear and tear from use, age, and/or obsolescence. The offsetting … Financial and business terms
Depreciation — A non cash expense that provides a source of free cash flow. Amount allocated during the period to amortize the cost of acquiring Long term assets over the useful life of the assets. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * US… … Financial and business terms
accelerated method — A cost allocation method that provides for larger amounts in earlier time periods. The rationale for using an accelerated method is that the economic activity of the underlying assets or circumstances occurs most intensively in the earliest time… … Auditor's dictionary
Accelerated depreciation — refers to any one of several methods by which a company, for financial accounting and/or tax purposes, depreciates a fixed asset in such a way that the amount of depreciation taken each year is higher during the earlier years of an asset’s life.… … Wikipedia
depreciation — de·pre·ci·a·tion /di ˌprē shē ā shən/ n 1: any decrease in the value of property (as machinery) for the purpose of taxation that cannot be offset by current repairs and is carried on company books as a yearly charge amortizing the original cost… … Law dictionary
accelerated depreciation — see depreciation Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. accelerated depreciation … Law dictionary
accelerated cost recovery system — Accelerated Cost Recovery Sys·tem n: a method of calculating depreciation introduced in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 that results in faster recovery of costs for property put into service after 1980 by assigning it a shorter useful life… … Law dictionary
Tax deferral — refers to instances where a taxpayer can delay paying taxes to some future period. In theory, the net taxes paid should be the same. In practice, due to the time value of money, paying taxes in future is usually preferable to paying them now.… … Wikipedia
Tax profit — or taxable profit is used to distinguish between accounting profit or earnings (the number that is generally referred to in financial results for public companies and quoted in the press). Taxable profit is the number that is used to calculate… … Wikipedia
depreciation — /dapriyshiyeyshsn/ In accounting, spreading out the cost of a capital asset over its estimated useful life. Depreciation expense reduces the taxable income of an entity but does not reduce the cash. A decline in value of property caused by wear… … Black's law dictionary
