depreciation
111Earnings Before Interest, Tax and Depreciation - EBITD — An indicator of a company s financial performance, which is calculated as: This measure attempts to gauge a firm s profitability before any legally required payments, such as taxes and interest on debt, are paid. Depreciation is removed because… …
112Half-Year Convention For Depreciation — A depreciation schedule that treats all property acquired during the year as being acquired exactly in the middle of the year. This means that only half of the full year depreciation is allowed in the first year, with the remaining balance being… …
113Pre-Depreciation Profit — Earnings that are calculated prior to non cash expenses. Non cash expenses appear as separate income statement expense line items, but no actual cash is spent on these items. Depreciation costs are generally allocated according to a certain rate… …
114Retirement Method of Depreciation — An accounting procedure in which an asset is expensed for depreciation purposes only when it is removed from service instead of allocating its costs across the useful life of the asset. The depreciation expense must be reduced by the asset s… …
115book depreciation — ➔ depreciation * * * book depreciation UK US noun [U] ACCOUNTING ► the reduction in value of an asset each year as recorded in a company s accounts, which may be different to its real reduction in value: »In later years, book depreciation might… …
116Section 179 depreciation deduction — Section 179 of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 179), allows a taxpayer to elect to deduct the cost of certain types of property on their income taxes as an expense, rather than requiring the cost of the property to… …
117Asset Depreciation Range - ADR — An elective accounting method established by the Internal Revenue Code for tangible assets placed into service after 1970. Prior to the ADR system, there were over 100 asset classes for tangible property based on the taxpayer s business and… …
118Form 4562: Depreciation and Amortization — A tax form distributed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and used to claim deductions for the depreciation or amortization of a piece of property, or Section 179 expense. Individuals and businesses can claim deductions for both tangible… …
119Group Depreciation — A method of calculating depreciation by amalgamating assets into a pool, or group, which is used for a depreciation cost base. The assets grouped together should be similar in the way they function, or each asset should be small enough that it is …
120accelerated depreciation — A rate of depreciation of assets that is faster than the useful life basis normally used to calculate depreciation. For example, a computer may be expected to have a useful life of four years when it is purchased; however, as a result of new… …
