Comment on the Validity of the Following Statements

question 198

Essay

Comment on the validity of the following statements. "As an asset loses its ability to provide services, cash needs to be set aside to replace it. Depreciation accomplishes this goal."

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Definitions:

Network Externalities

The effect on a user of a product or service that results from an increase in the number of other users of the same or compatible products or services.

Natural Monopolies

Market conditions where a single firm can supply a good or service more efficiently than any competitor due to economies of scale, hence dominating the market.

Positive Feedback

Put simply, success breeds success, failure breeds failure; the effect is seen with goods that are subject to network externalities.

Marginal Social Benefits

The additional benefits to society as a whole from producing one more unit of a good or service.