ACCT 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cash Flow, Book Value

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Carrying amount as an approximation of remaining life: Remaining life = (carrying amount / acquisition cost) x estimated useful. Estimated useful life represents management"s estimate of the assets useful. Life economic life to the company, rather than of its total economic life to all potential users. The assets expected physical life is often longer than the company intends to use the asset. Economic life may be expressed in terms of years, or units of capacity, such as the number of hours a machine is expected to operate or units it can produce. The determination of estimated useful life of a long lived asset must conform to the continuity assumption. This assumption holds that the business will continue to pursue its commercial objectives and will not liquidate in the foreseeable future. The calculation of depreciation expense requires three amounts for each depreciable asset: 2) estimated useful life to the company.

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