Useful life
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At the time an asset is acquired, useful life is an estimate is made of its usefulness in terms of years, output, and so forth.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Useful life. At the time an asset is acquired, an estimate is made of its usefulness in terms of years, output, and so forth.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.
