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September 2016 » Depreciable Asset Lives
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Howard B. Levy, CPA
In the early days of what is now modern, authoritative GAAP, paras. 46–52 of Accounting Terminology Bulletin 1, Review and Résumé, issued by the AICPA in 1953, engaged in a scholarly debate as to what the term “depreciation” means—whether it recognizes an estimate that imprecisely measures the diminution of value of an asset over time or an allocation of its historical cost. This is no longer debatable, as it remains clear in the literature that the latter is the case, assuming use of the cost basis of accounting.
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