Straight-line depreciation involves reporting the same amount of depreciation expense each year. (If you were to draw the graph of the expense over time, it would form a straight horizontal line, ...

When companies invest in assets, they expect those assets to last a certain number of years. Over time, they’re depreciated based on their remaining serviceable life and any potential saleable value ...

Every day, business managers make capital budget decisions -- choices about whether to invest in projects such as building a factory, upgrading machinery or investing in research and development. But ...

This study examines whether straight-line depreciation, relative to accelerated depreciation, causes non-executive managers to make non-value-maximizing capital investment decisions. To do this, I ...