The GAAP approves four different methods for depreciating business assets: the straight-line method, the units of production method, the declining balance method and the sum-of-the-year's-digits ...

To increase supplemental income, a company's senior management might consent to all kinds of strategically sensible deals, including those that require the company to receive money in advance and ...

When a bond has an interest rate that's higher than prevailing rates in the bond market, it will typically trade at a price higher than its face value. Such a bond is said to trade at a premium, and ...

The straight-line method is the simplest way to account for the amortization of a bond on a company's financial statements. This method attributes equal interest expense to every accounting period ...

Accelerated depreciation allows businesses to write off the cost of an asset more quickly than the traditional straight-line ...

Editor’s Note: David G. Muller is an attorney with the law firm of Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., which represents community associations throughout Florida, with offices in Naples, Fort Myers and 11 other ...

The Department's Deputy Secretary Steven Kennedy told a Senate hearing in Canberra this morning that, "the projection method, as I understand it, is a straight line method". Dr Kennedy said although ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Amy is an ACA and the CEO and founder of OnPoint Learning, a financial ...

Double declining balance depreciation is a method of depreciating large business assets quickly. Learn how and when to use it. The double declining balance (DDB) depreciation method is an accounting ...