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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition
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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition

by Matan Feldman, Arkady Libman
February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 32m
English
Wiley
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PP&E, Net of Depreciation

PP&E is reported net of accumulated depreciation on the balance sheet, such that:

Net PP&E = Gross PP&E – Accumulated Depreciation

Accumulated Depreciation (B/S) =

(Depreciation Expense)Year 1

+ (Depreciation Expense)Year 2

+ (Depreciation Expense)Year 3

+ ...

+ (Depreciation Expense)Current Year

Accumulated depreciation = sum of all depreciation expenses (net of asset sales) on the income statement. It is a contra account, which is an offsetting account to an asset (and can also be to liabilities and shareholders’ equity). Increases in a contra account reduce the associated asset account.

Accumulated depreciation offsets Gross PP&E account, and the two accounts are aggregated together on the balance sheet as Net PP&E:

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