rate of depreciation

The regulators have the power to speed up - or slow down - the rate of depreciation a phone company uses.

The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year.

Regarding the rates of depreciation to be notified under the Companies Act.

"So look at both the relative life and the rate of depreciation," and see which treatment is most beneficial.

Other options under discussion are ways to streamline and simplify the process for determining the proper rate of depreciation.

But gradually, during 1978 and 1979, the real exchange rate appreciated because inflation consistently outpaced the rate of depreciation.

The rate of depreciation is equivalent to that of a Honda Accord Coupe.

The rate of depreciation of the aggregate capital stock of an economy in an exogenous growth model in macroeconomics.

Very broadly, the accountants determine whether the right accounting methods have been usedfor instance in dealing with such matters as rates of depreciation and work-in-progress.

Rapid rates of depreciation on capital meant that a great part of savings in pre-modern economies were spent on replacing depleted capital, hampering capital accumulation.

In a steady state, therefore: , where n is the constant exogenous population growth rate, and d is the constant exogenous rate of depreciation of capital.

This equation simply states that investment, or increase in capital per worker is that part of output which is not consumed, minus the rate of depreciation of capital.

A more universal way of stating the approximation is "the home interest rate equals the foreign interest rate plus the expected rate of depreciation of the home currency."

For example if the writing-down allowance (rate of depreciation) is 25 per cent, the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows:

In order to modernize more rapidly, the company would like to accelerate the rate of depreciation, which is taken as a charge against earnings - a short-term pain with long-term benefits for the company's profitability.

With the knowledge that it will last, the Croma might be an intriguing second-hand buy - after a year its value will have virtually halved, so steep is its rate of depreciation.

Beginning in 1979 the rate of exchange depreciation was pre-fixed with a tablita, an active crawling peg based on a timetable which announced ahead of time a gradually declining rate of depreciation.

These figures suggest that there was also some degree of undervaluation of exports and imports in terms of dinars in previous years, although the amount may well have varied with the rate of depreciation of the dinar.

Div's relations with systems managers all across Scotland meant Ray had been able to tap into a valuable supply of second-hand hardware, the rate of depreciation in the computer business being steep enough to make a Ford Focus seem like a gilt investment.

The high profits earned from the colonies and the slave trade constituted 7 percent a year, a relatively high rate of return considering the high rate of depreciation on pre-industrial capital stocks, which limited the amount of savings and capital accumulation.

I liked the second Picanto so much I recommended it to my mother-in-law - along with its seven-year warranty, it came out on top in one reliability survey and had also been reported as having the lowest rate of depreciation of any new car.

The gross savings rate out of output Y is assumed to depend on the capital-labour ratio (the nature of this dependence is discussed below), and we take the simple case of a proportionate rate of depreciation, y, often referred to as 'radioactive decay'.

For that, of course, trans-European networks are needed, as is a regulator or coordinator to handle these matters, but what is needed above all is the fiscal incentives that will get the profits that will be made used for investment allowances or shorter-term rates of depreciation.

A recent report by stockbrokers UBS Phillips and Drew (1992) draws attention to this factor, suggesting that actual rates of depreciation of capital in the UK have been well in excess of official assumptions as to rates of depreciation, aided by an overvalued exchange rate.