Discover how businesses calculate depreciation to account for asset value loss over time, with methods including straight-line, declining balance, and sum-of-the-years' digits.

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Depreciation is the recovery of the cost of a physical asset, like property or equipment, over multiple years. It allows companies to spread out the cost of some expenses, reduce taxable income and ...