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I agree with your accountant.
That is the common convention (and simplest method) unless you are doing monthly management accounts, in which case you would typically calculate depreciation on a monthly basis.
Since depreciation is just an estimate, there are many acceptable ways of calculating it. Whether any is more or less accurate than another is debatable. In the grand scheme of things, it rarely matters that much.
Except re availability of reserves to pay dividends.
Whilst I would normally use full year charge re smaller value items things like a £100,000 Porsche I tend to compute on a monthly basis.
Strictly, one should only depreciate an asset in accordance with the time that you own it. Some preparers do charge a full year's depreciation in the year of purchase and none in the year of disposal, but that's an accounting policy choice. There's certainly no rule to say that that's what you have to do.