quotas degressivas

English translation: declining or diminishing balance (method )

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Portuguese term or phrase:	quotas degressivas
English translation:	declining or diminishing balance (method )
Entered by:	Deborah do Carmo

10:05 Sep 5, 2005

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Bus/Financial - Accounting
Region (source): Portuguese (Portugal)
Region (target): English (United Kingdom)

Portuguese term or phrase: quotas degressivas

in notes to balance sheet "as amortizações são efectuadas pelo método das quotas constantes...com excepção do investimento em equipamento básico novo, utilizando a empresa o método das quotas degressivas"

abyrne KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) Answers: 1
Local time: 08:28

declining balance methord or diminishing balance method

Explanation:
as opposed to the straight-line method

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Declining Balance Method. What does it Mean? A common depreciation-calculation
system that involves applying the depreciation rate against the ...
www.investopedia.com/terms/d/decliningbalancemethod.asp - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

Depreciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The declining-balance method is a type of accelerated depreciation, because it
recognizes a higher depreciation cost earlier in an asset's lifetime. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depreciation - 22k

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Erratum: method not methord !!!

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Deborah do Carmo
Portugal
Local time: 08:28

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Thanks Deborah, your explanation was very clear, I'm afraid I didn't use it as it came too late for my deadline, and I've only just seen it now. Thanks anyway.
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declining balance methord or diminishing balance method

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double declining balance

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declining balance methord or diminishing balance method

Deborah do Carmo
Portugal
Local time: 08:28
Native speaker of: English
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Grading comment

Thanks Deborah, your explanation was very clear, I'm afraid I didn't use it as it came too late for my deadline, and I've only just seen it now. Thanks anyway.

121 days confidence:

double declining balance

Explanation:
The most common depreciation methods are:
1)the straight line
2)the double-declining balance
3)the sum-of-the-years´-digits
4)MACRS - modified accelerated cost recovery system

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