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  2. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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    Assets were owed to the owner and the owners' equity was entrusted to the company. At the time negative numbers were not in use. When his work was translated, the Latin words debere and credere became the English debit and credit. Under this theory, the abbreviations Dr (for debit) and Cr (for credit) derive directly from the original Latin. [7]

  3. 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 ...

  4. Historical cost - Wikipedia

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    The historical cost is then depreciated: it is systematically reduced to the recoverable amount, over the estimated useful life of the asset, to reflect the asset's usage. The depreciation (reduction of historical cost) is charged to expense. [ 5 ]

  5. Accounting for leases in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under an operating lease, the lessee records rent expense over the lease term, and a credit to either cash or rent payable. If an operating lease has scheduled changes in rent, normally the rent must be expensed on a straight-line basis over its life, with a deferred liability or asset reported on the balance sheet for the difference between ...

  6. Balance sheet - Wikipedia

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    In financial accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business partnership, a corporation, private limited company or other organization such as government or not-for-profit entity.

  7. Currency appreciation and depreciation - Wikipedia

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    Since Russians brought a lot of foreign currency with them, especially dollars, it created an oversupply of dollars, therefore the price of dollars started to fall, and it depreciated. Contrary to that, there was a high demand for the Armenian dram, the home currency, since the Russian tourists had to exchange their dollars to drams to be able ...

  8. MACRS - Wikipedia

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    Taxpayers may be required to use ADS or otherwise may elect which of the three lives to use. Lives for personal property vary from 3 years to 20 years. Land improvements must be depreciated over 15 or 20 years. Other real property must be depreciated over 27.5 years for residential property, 39 years for business property, and 40 years under ADS.

  9. Riba - Wikipedia

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    The similarity between credit sales and conventional non-Islamic ("ribawi") loans has been noted (some calling murabaha a "semantic work-around" for interest charging loans), [336] necessary because businesses "cannot survive where cash and credit prices are equal", and urges that bank interest not be judged haram. [348]