Free Depreciation Calculator
Straight-line depreciation of an asset over its useful life.
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Straight-line depreciation of an asset over its useful life.
What is the Depreciation Calculator?
Straight-line depreciation of an asset over its useful life.
How does the Depreciation Calculator work?
Enter the inputs above and read the result.
Formula
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CostInitial costSalvageEnd-of-life valueLifeYears
Explanation
Straight-line method spreads depreciable base evenly across useful life.
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The Depreciation Calculator sits inside the Finance Calculators hub, in the business & accounting cluster. Unit economics, margins and company metrics. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.
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Understanding Depreciation
Straight-line depreciation of an asset over its useful life. Within finance calculators, depreciation belongs to the business & accounting cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.
Learning how depreciation is calculated
Straight-line method spreads depreciable base evenly across useful life. Working through the variables one at a time — Cost, Salvage, Life — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.
Using depreciation to make a decision
Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.
How depreciation compares with related measures
contribution margin, fixed cost, variable cost, runway all describe adjacent aspects of business & accounting. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.
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