Unit 7: Depreciation and Amortization

Accountant counting on an abacus
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Basic activities (computer-graded)
Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students should be familiar with the following vocabulary before continuing on to the activities and exercises:

  • Accelerated depreciation
  • Accrual accounting
  • Allocate
  • Amortization
  • Annuity depreciation
  • Carry over
  • Cash-flow
  • Determined by
  • Divide
  • Finite life
  • Multiply
  • Net-book value
  • Salvage value
  • Straight line depreciation
  • Sum-of-years-digits depreciation
Reading Comprehension: Depreciation and Amortization

This unit, deals with two of the hardest concepts in accounting. depreciation, and amortization. Even just saying these terms can be hard for non-native speakers!

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