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

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    With this accelerated form of depreciation, you deduct a greater portion of the asset’s value at the beginning of its life. This typically at a rate of double or 150%.

  3. Book value - Wikipedia

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    In accounting, book value (or carrying value) is the value of an asset [1] according to its balance sheet account balance. For assets, the value is based on the original cost of the asset less any depreciation , amortization or impairment costs made against the asset.

  4. MACRS - Wikipedia

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    Taxpayers were permitted to calculate depreciation only under the declining balance method switching to straight line or the straight line method. Other changes applied as well. The present MACRS system [3] was adopted as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. California is the only state which does not fully conform its depreciation schedule to ...

  5. P/B ratio - Wikipedia

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    The price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, (also PBR) is a financial ratio used to compare a company's current market value to its book value (where book value is the value of all assets minus liabilities owned by a company). The calculation can be performed in two ways, but the result should be the same.

  6. Price-to-Book Ratio: A Guide for Investors - AOL

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    When analyzing stocks or companies to invest in, there are different ratios for gauging financial health. The price-to-book ratio (P/B) is one way to evaluate a stock's value, something that may ...

  7. Why Do Investors Use Price to Book Value? - AOL

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    In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer take a question from their mailbag about using metrics ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Average accounting return - Wikipedia

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    For decide to these projects value, it needs cutoff rate. This rate is kind of deadline whether this project produces net income or net loss. [1] There are three steps to calculating the AAR. First, determine the average net income of each year of the project's life. Second, determine the average investment, taking depreciation into account ...