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Name: Depreciation in Accounting
ID: m15617
Language: English (en)
Summary: Depreciation is the periodic, systematic expiration of the cost of a company's fixed assets (except for land). Learn more about what depreciation is and is not in these tutorials and resources.
Subject: Business
Keywords: accounting, accumulated depreciation, asset, college-cram, declining balance, depreciation, depreciation schedule, double declining balance, salvage value, straight line, sum of the years digits, units of production
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)
Copyright Holders: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)
Maintainers: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)
Version: 1.1 (history)
Created: Dec 11, 2007 3:01 pm US/Central
Revised: Dec 11, 2007 3:18 pm US/Central

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Version: 1.1 Dec 11, 2007 3:18 pm US/Central by Rudy Lopes
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