A Method of Depreciation for Infrastructure Assets That Allows the Expensing

question 43

Multiple Choice

A method of depreciation for infrastructure assets that allows the expensing of all maintenance costs each year instead of computing depreciation is called

• A) Government-wide depreciation.
• B) Proprietary depreciation.
• C) GASB depreciation.
• D) Modified approach.
• E) Alternative depreciation.

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