Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

A business owner looks up the differences between amortization and depreciation. Amortization and depreciation are accounting methods used to allocate the cost of assets over their useful lives.

The tax benefits of real estate have long been important to me. Back when I started my career as an emergency room physician, it was shocking to me just how much money would get taken out of my check ...

Seth Hanlon explains the $24.5 billion tax break that lets businesses deduct the wear and tear on assets like buildings and equipment faster than they actually wear out. This is part of a new CAP ...

Depreciation allows you to spread the cost of capital assets -- business assets that last more than one year -- over several years rather than having a large expense in the first year and no expenses ...

Depreciation is the recovery of the cost of a physical asset, like property or equipment, over multiple years. It allows companies to spread out the cost of some expenses, reduce taxable income and ...

Depreciation expense can be a big portion of a company’s total expense. And since expenses decrease income, it affects the overall value of a company. Understanding what it is and the methods can help ...

When your company purchases a fixed asset with an estimated lifetime exceeding one year, you cannot deduct the entire cost in the year of purchase. Rather, you must depreciate the asset by expensing a ...

One of the more robust tax incentives over the past several years has been Bonus Depreciation. This tax provision allowed companies to accelerate depreciation on purchased equipment to the year it was ...