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Depreciation is any method of allocating such net cost to those periods expected to benefit from use of the asset.
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Depreciation and is
Depreciation is used to record the declining value of buildings and equipment over time.
Depreciation expense generally begins when the asset is placed in service.
Depreciation is a method of allocation, not valuation.
Depreciation is generally recognized under historical cost systems of accounting.
Depreciation in these systems is allowed over an estimated useful life, which may be assigned by the government for numerous classes of assets, based on the nature and use of the asset and the nature of the business.
Depreciation is often a very good approximation for the capital expenditures required to maintain the asset base, so it can be argued that EBITA (" Earnings before Interest, Taxes and Amortization ) would be a better metric.
Depreciation can be calculated several ways, the simplest is the straight-line method.
* Depreciation: Depreciation is a major consideration for individuals deciding between buying and leasing.
Total value added is very closely approximated by Total Labor Expense ( including wages, salaries, and benefits ) plus " Cash " Operating Profit ( defined as Operating Profit plus Depreciation Expense, i. e., Operating Profit before Depreciation ).
The first component ( Total Labor Expense ) is a return to labor and the second component ( Operating Profit before Depreciation ) is a return to capital ( including capital goods, land, and other property ).
Depreciation is, simply put, the expense generated by the uses of an asset.
Depreciation is usually spread over the economic useful life of an asset because it is regarded as the cost of an asset absorbed over its useful life.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization ( EBITDA ) is a rough measure of operating cash flow, which reduces the effect of accounting, financing, and tax policies on reported profits.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization ( EBITDA ) is a very popular measure of financial performance.
EBITD is an initialism or acronym for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation.
EBDIT is an initialism or acronym for Earnings Before Depreciation, Interest and Taxes.
Depreciation is used to distribute the cost of the asset over its expected life span according to the matching principle.
Depreciation and such
* Depreciation matches the cost of purchasing fixed assets with revenues generated by them by spreading such costs over their expected life.
Depreciation and from
In 1788, the Pennsylvania Legislature created Allegheny County from some of Westmoreland and Washington counties and most of the Depreciation Lands north of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny River.
* Depreciation of capital assets has different tax and financial reporting treatment from ordinary business expenses.
Depreciation charges in business accounts are adjusted in national accounts from historic costs to current prices, in conjunction with estimates of the capital stock.
Depreciation and use
As of late 2007, export restrictions and panic buying, US Dollar Depreciation, increased farming for use in biofuels, world oil prices at more than $ 100 a barrel, global population growth, climate change, loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development, and growing consumer demand in China and India are claimed to have pushed up the price of grain.
A professional investor contemplating a change to the capital structure of a firm ( e. g., through a leveraged buyout ) first evaluates a firm's fundamental earnings potential ( reflected by Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization EBITDA and EBIT ), and then determines the optimal use of debt vs. equity.
Depreciation and asset
Depreciation affects the carrying value of an asset on the balance sheet.
Depreciation and .
Depreciation deductions were also curtailed.
Weaver toured the country with the Spike Jones Music Depreciation Revue until 1951.
Originally part of Pitt Township and the Depreciation Lands, reserved for Revolutionary War veterans, it was named after Jonathan Leet, a surveyor who laid out the town of Beaver Falls.
* Depreciation as a means to increase exports by making goods less expensive to foreigners, and to decrease the demand for imports — which are made more expensive — in order to stimulate the domestic economy.
The cutaway illustration of Marvin made by Kevin J. Davies for the " Depreciation Society " featured a " rat cavity ".
Depreciation and Cost of Goods Sold are good examples of application of this principle.
Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers and toured the United States and Canada under the title The Musical Depreciation Revue.
Depreciation, amortization and depletion are recorded as expenses against a contra account.
Depreciation expense does not require current outlay of cash.
** Depreciation / Amortization-the charge with respect to fixed assets / intangible assets that have been capitalised on the balance sheet for a specific ( accounting ) period.
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Depreciation gained momentum and the free market rate was over 800 per dollar by 1990 and almost 3000 in 1995.
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That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.
The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.
The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.
Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
Hence, the only defensible procedure is to repress any and every notion, unless it gives evidence that it is perfectly safe.
Assuredly in our political campaigns there is freedom to think, to examine any and all issues, and to speak without restraint.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
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In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
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