Depreciation: How to Expense Long Term Assets

The video tutorial explains how to expense long-term assets using depreciation in accounting. It covers the process of allocating the cost of plant assets over their useful life, following the matching principles. The tutorial highlights three key factors needed to compute depreciation: total asset cost, salvage value, and useful life. It also introduces three common methods of depreciation: straight line, units of production, and declining balance, each with varying complexity.

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