When a business buys a long-term asset, it records a portion of the asset's cost as a depreciation expense on the income statement each period to account for wear and tear. With the ...

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Depreciation is a concept and a method that recognizes that some business assets become less valuable over time and provides a way to calculate and record the effects of this. Depreciation impacts a ...

Depreciation is a fairly simple concept. When a business owner buys a fixed asset, that asset loses its value over time, and so its most current value must be accounted for on the company’s balance ...

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Over time, the assets a company owns lose value, which is known as depreciation. As the value of these assets declines over time, the depreciated amount is recorded as an expense on the balance sheet.