How should depreciation be handled in a non profit budget?
yes
Depreciation is not part of cash budget as this is not cash expense rather it is just the allocation of fixed asset cost to specific fiscal year in which that fixed asset is used so there is no cash outflow due to depreciation and that’s why it is not included.
Depreciation policy is management thing that what depreciation method to use and how much depreciation to charge to each asset. Depreciation concepts are concepts which govern the depreciation process which management cannot change they are universal rules to follow depreciation that how straight line depreciation work etc.
Debit depreciation accountCredit accumulated depreciation
How should depreciation be handled in a non profit budget?
yes
Depreciation is not part of cash budget as this is not cash expense rather it is just the allocation of fixed asset cost to specific fiscal year in which that fixed asset is used so there is no cash outflow due to depreciation and that’s why it is not included.
First of all capital expenditure should be estimated and after that on the basis of fixed assets purchase assumption depreciation can be calculated.
Accumulated depreciation and depreciation are related with each other as depreciation is annual expense while accumulated depreciation is the sum of all annual depreciation expenses.
Accumulated depreciation and depreciation are related with each other as depreciation is annual expense while accumulated depreciation is the sum of all annual depreciation expenses.
Depreciation expenses is for one specific fiscal year while accumulated depreciation is the sum of all depreciation expenses that’s why accumulated depreciation exceeds the depreciation if there is depreciation expense in prior year as well.
Depreciation policy is management thing that what depreciation method to use and how much depreciation to charge to each asset. Depreciation concepts are concepts which govern the depreciation process which management cannot change they are universal rules to follow depreciation that how straight line depreciation work etc.
Debit depreciation accountCredit accumulated depreciation
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Depreciation is for a particular year (say for Year 3). Accumulated depreciation is the aggregate of depreciation from the beginning (say from Year 1 to Year 3)
[Debit] Depreciation account [Credit] Accumulated depreciation