The total depreciation for an accounting period is recorded as a depreciation expense on the income statement. This reduces net income, which is also known as the bottom line. Net income equals revenues minus expenses. Higher depreciation expense contributes to higher total expenses, which results in lower net income. Companies with mostly older assets that have been fully depreciated and companies with few long-lived assets benefit from low depreciation expense and higher net income.
Depreciation Expense reduces net income and has no effect on cash flow.
Depreciation is added back to net income to arrive on cash flow from operating activities because depreciation itself don't cause any inflow or outflow of cash that's why it is added back to net operating income.
NNP=GNP-depreciation
It reduces the net income because it is an expense. Expenses are deducted from income when computing the net income. It has no effect on cash flow because when the asset depreciates, there's no money involved. The only thing involved in depreciation is the carrying value of the asset.
Cash flows are adjusted for depreciation transaction and then net income is arrised and from there taxes are deducted as well.
I assume what you are referring to is the fact that if your are using the indirect approach to complete a cash flow statement, you add back depreciation. This step makes it look like depreciation is generating cash flow for the company. The reason for adding depreciation is that when we are preparing our cash flow statement, we are reconciling net income to account for things that are not reflected or things that do not affect cash flows. If we simplify it, we can say that net income equals ( Sales - Expenses ). Depreciation is an expense that decreases our net income, but it is simply an accounting value to match expenses with revenues produced, and does not affect cash. So, since we deducted depreciation to get to net income we need to add it back when we do our cash flow statement to reconcile net income with our cash flow.
Net income would decrease by 1,000,000 - would have no effect on cash flow.
Depreciation expense is a nominal account which will goin to net income at the end of term. Accumulated depreciation is a contra account with capital assets which shows up in balance sheet.
EBITDA of 512,725.50 - EBIT 362,450.20 = 150,275.30 Depreciation Cash flow of 34,846,125 - 150, 275.3 Depreciation = 34,695,849.70 Net Income
Depreciation expenses
Depreciation is an expense and like all other expenses which causes the reduction in profit depreciation is also cause of reduction of profit as formula shows below:Profit = Revenue - expenses
Net present value calculation only considers the cash amounts and depreciation is not cash amount rather the related assets is counted in for net present value calculation. Depreciation is deducted once from net income to calculate the tax amount but after that it is added back.