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  2. Depreciation - Wikipedia

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    An asset depreciation at 15% per year over 20 years. In accountancy, depreciation refers to two aspects of the same concept: first, an actual reduction in the fair value of an asset, such as the decrease in value of factory equipment each year as it is used and wears, and second, the allocation in accounting statements of the original cost of the assets to periods in which the assets are used ...

  3. Depreciation (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Modeling depreciation of a durable as delivering the same services from purchase until failure, with zero scrap value (rather than slowing degrading and retaining residual value), is referred to as the light bulb model of depreciation, [1]: S150 or more colorfully as the one-hoss shay model, after a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., about a ...

  4. What Is Depreciation? Importance and Calculation Methods ...

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    The most common tax depreciation method used in the U.S. is the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System or MACRS. This accelerates depreciation and provides greater deductions in the early years.

  5. Oil depletion allowance - Wikipedia

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    The oil depletion allowance in American (US) tax law is a tax break claimable by anyone with an economic interest in a mineral deposit or standing timber. [citation needed] The principle is that the asset is a capital investment that is a wasting asset, and therefore depreciation can reasonably be offset (effectively as a capital loss) against income.

  6. MACRS - Wikipedia

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    The grouped assets must have the same life, method of depreciation, convention, additional first year depreciation percentage, and year (or quarter or month) placed in service. Listed property or vehicles cannot be grouped with other assets. Depreciation for the account is computed as if the entire account were a single asset. [23]

  7. Congestion pricing - Wikipedia

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    However, this technical definition of congestion as a measurement of delay can get confused and used interchangeably with traffic density in the public mind. [ 157 ] To measure the true effects of any traffic management scheme it is normally necessary to establish a baseline, or "do nothing" case, which estimates the effects on the network ...

  8. Consumption of fixed capital - Wikipedia

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    Unlike depreciation as calculated in business accounts, CFC in national accounts is, in principle, not a method of allocating the costs of past expenditures on fixed assets over subsequent accounting periods. Rather, fixed assets at a given moment in time are valued according to the remaining benefits derived from their use.

  9. Fixed asset - Wikipedia

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    Depreciation is the expense generated by using an asset. It is the wear and tear and thus diminution in the historical value due to usage. It is also the cost of the asset less any salvage value over its estimated useful life. A fixed asset can be depreciated using the straight line method which is the most common form of depreciation.