Explain the concept of depreciation and why organisations need to recognise deprecations expense in the Income Statement.
Units-of-production
accumulated depreciation is a part of financial statement while its counteract or effect is recorded into income statement as a Depreciation Expense.
Income Statement
Accumulated Depreciation is reported on the balance sheetbecause it deals with the assets. However, depreciation expense is mentioned on the income statement.
Accumulated Depreciation is reported on the balance sheetbecause it deals with the assets. However, depreciation expense is mentioned on the income statement.
Depreciation expense on the income statement represents the portion of the asset's cost that is allocated as an expense during the reporting period. Accumulated depreciation on the balance sheet is a contra-asset account that reduces the asset's original cost by the total amount of depreciation expense recognized over its useful life. Thus, depreciation expense increases the accumulated depreciation balance on the balance sheet.
Depreciation Expense, though called an expense, is not an expense where the company actually pays money out. The statement of cash flows deals with the company's "cash flow" in order for a manager to see where the company's cash is going to and coming from. Since depreciation expense doesn't involve actual cash flow, it would not affect the Cash account.
Yes depreciation is a nominal account and used to allocated the portion of fixed cost to income statement as an expense for that specific period.
DR. DEPRECIATION EXPENSE X CR. ASSET X At the end of the year Depreciation is charged to the Income Statement.
All expenses recognized in a period are debits. While depreciation expense is a debit (increase in expense) shown in the income statement, accumulated depreciation is usually the offsetting credit (contra-asset reduction in balance sheet).
Depreciation expense reduce the cost of asset through income statement for the useful life of asset and accumulated depreciation account is contra account for asset account in balance sheet to show the total amount of depreciation charged.
[Debit] Depreciation expense[Credit] Accumulated depreciationAfter that depreciation is shown as part of income statement while accumulated depreciation goes to balance sheet.