Word Finder - depreciation

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The state of being depreciated; disparagement.

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The decline in value of assets.

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The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.

In 1879, owing to the continued depreciation of silver, the free coinage of silver was suspended.

As on previous occasions, the great depreciation in the value of the currency has led to a repudiation of part of its nominal value.

The consequence of these further issues was instant depreciation, and the note of Too francs nominal value sank to less than 20 francs coin.

For straight line depreciation, we would normally expect your items to be depreciated over a minimum period of three years.

In this case, depreciation is deducted from the property's current value before the claim payout is made.

The Postmaster-General on the other hand agreed to provide underground wires for the company on a rental, and agreed to buy in 1911 the company's plant in London at the cost of construction less allowance for repairs and depreciation.

The latter were Denver (133,859), Pueblo (28,137), Colorado Springs (21,085), Leadville (12,455), Cripple Creek (10,147), Boulder (6150) and Trinidad (5345) Creede, county-seat of Mineral county, was a phenomenal silver camp from its discovery in 1891 until 1893; in 1892 it numbered already 7000 inhabitants, but the rapid depreciation of silver soon thereafter caused most of its mines to be closed, and in 1900 the population was only 938.

A similar tone of exaggerated depreciation of the Massoretic Hebrew text, coloured by polemical bias against Protestantism, mars his greatest work, the posthumous Exercitationes biblicae de hebraeici graecique textus sinceritate (1660), in which, following in the footsteps of Cappellus, but with incomparably greater learning, he brings irrefragable arguments against the then current theory of the absolute integrity of the Hebrew text and the antiquity of the vowel points.

This depreciation (10,000) was equivalent to a loss of 99% of the nominal value of the currency, a paper peso of loo centavos being worth only one centavo gold.

The years' working of the whole telephone system of the Post Office showed a balance of £451,787 after payment of the working expenses, while the estimated amount required to provide for depreciation of plant and interest at 3 per cent.

Philip's bimetallic system, which had attempted artificially to fix the value of silver in spite of the great depreciation of gold consequent upon the working of the Pangaean mines, was abandoned.

The depreciation and unstable character of the paper currency render it difficult to give a clear statement of receipts and expenditures for a term of years, the sterling equivalents often showing a decrease, through a fall in the value of the milreis, where there has been an actual increase in currency returns.

Notwithstanding this, the House of Commons declared in the teeth of the facts that paper had undergone no depreciation.

In financial matters Colombia is known abroad chiefly through repeated defaults in meeting her bonded indebtedness, and through the extraordinary depreciation of her paper currency.

The property is listed at cost, less depreciation.

Interest rates also have to be held down to secure a currency depreciation.

One of the key positive factors we see is the prospect of a dollar depreciation.

Depreciation for tax purposes is calculated by systematically applying the straight-line depreciation method.

Still, an overseas acquisition spree could follow a yuan strengthening, just as it did the yen depreciation.

Leaving the camper in the backyard in the snow is a recipe for quick depreciation of the trailer.

Some calculators do not account for items such as home insurance, taxes, home depreciation, and debt to income ratio.

This means that many neighborhoods might be considered higher risk for depreciation by Cleveland mortgage lenders, and should be taken into consideration by potential buyers.

Although the answer depends largely on how big the mess is, it usually takes patience and hard work to recover from falling behind in payments or substantial depreciation in the value of the home.

An actual value insurance policy replaces the cash value of your engagement ring minus the depreciation from its use.

Certain business tax deductions are subject to depreciation.

Products and services reasonably used for business operations should qualify, though restrictions and depreciation values vary.

Different categories of equipment, such as computers and furniture, have different depreciation schedules; check with a tax professional or the IRS to be certain that you are applying this type of deduction properly.

So, the initial shot of depreciation occurs just because of regular market forces - what people are willing to pay for that used car which drives what that car is worth in the marketplace.

Depreciation doesn't have any allegiance to or alliance with anybody.

If you're driving that car while that's going on, your asset is on an accelerated depreciation schedule now that you have no control over.

This can include the fuel economy, cost for repairing or maintaining the car, monetary depreciation of the car's value, expense involved in insuring the vehicle, and any other car-related costs.

If you opt for the more expensive "Replacement Value" option, the damaged property is replaced with no regard for depreciation.

This depreciation reached its maximum in October 1891 ($460.82 paper for $100 gold), and remained between that figure and $264 during the next six years.

The 20-piastre mejidie currency, in spite of the further enormous depreciation of silver since 1880, has scarcely varied in the Constantinople market, but has always remained at a discount of about 3% (between 108 and 109 piastres to the pound) under government rate; this is doubtless due to the fact that the demand and supply of the coins in that market are very evenly balanced.

His pension was continued by the National Assembly, and he was partially indemnified for the depreciation of the currency by remunerative appointments.

Brazil is a member of the Postal Union, and like Argentina exacts higher nominal rates of postage upon outgoing mail than those agreed upon to cover the depreciation in her own currency.

He took an active share in the various expedients of the government for stopping the depreciation of the assignats.

At last their depreciation reached a point where their acceptance was generally refused and silver was imported for commercial needs, when the government suspended their legal tender quality and allowed them to disappear.

Part of the Revolutionary debt was paid in depreciated paper, part was assumed by the United States government, part was paid at various rates of depreciation between 1803 and 1820, and the remainder, $43,971, was repudiated in 1847.

Moreover, all securities underwent such sharp depreciation that, on the one hand, the government hesitated to hand over the bonds representing the purchase-price of the railways, lest such an addition to the volume of stocks should cause further depreciation, and, on the other, the former owners of the nationalized lines found the character of their bargain greatly changed.

He married in 1793 Mlle Deloche, daughter of a former avocat au conseil; the young pair were greatly straitened in means in consequence of the depreciation of the assignats.

The extent of the depreciation in value of tithe tray be gathered from the fact that for 1902 the price of the wheat bushel is thus fixed at 3s.

The most striking feature in this work is the writer's scathing condemnation of the priesthood before, during, and after the Maccabean period, and an unsparing depreciation of the Temple services.

The name of one of them, Thomas Conway, an Irish soldier of fortune from the French service, is attached to what is called "Conway's Cabal," a scheme for superseding Washington by General Horatio Gates, who in October 1777 succeeded in forcing Burgoyne to capitulate at Saratoga, and who had been persistent in his depreciation of the commander-in-chief and in intrigues with members of Congress.

Taxation has been very erratic. From 1877 to 1893 the total assessment rose steadily from $3,453,946 to $238,722,417; it then fell at least partly owing to the depreciation in and uncertain values of mining property, and from 1894 to 1900 fluctuated between 192.2 and 216.8 million dollars; in 1901 it was raised to $465,874,288, and fluctuated in the years following; the estimated total assessment for 1907 was $365,000,000.

The Caps struck at once at the weak point of their opponents by ordering a budget report to be made; and it was speedily found that the whole financial system of the Hats had been based upon reckless improvidence and c prof the wilful misrepresentation, and that the only fruit of their long rule was an enormous addition to the national debt and a depreciation of the note circulation to onethird of its face value.

His first publication (1809) was The High Price of Bullion a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes.

His influence, which grew during the 18th century in spite of the depreciation of Dr Johnson, has shared in the eclipse of the Queen Anne wits which began about the time of Jeffrey.

You need to show how you have calculated depreciation for each item, remember you must be consistent with the method you use.

No cover is provided for wear and tear, depreciation or repair.