Depreciation is an accounting method that spreads the cost of an asset over its expected useful life to give you a more accurate view of its value and your business’s profitability. As opposed ...

Current national strategies for bridge maintenance favor replacement over maintenance. A fairly simple depreciation formula is used, resulting in overly conservative assessments of a bridge's long ...

Accelerated depreciation allows businesses to write off the cost of an asset more quickly than the traditional straight-line method. This can provide asset owners with potentially valuable tax ...

Depreciation vs. Revenue. One of the most important accounting rules, the matching principle, requires revenues and expenses to be recorded together in the same time periods based on their causal ...