Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Finance: Depreciation (Double Declining)

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Of particular interest to a group of business and finance pupils, this lesson explores depreciation of automobile values by comparing the double declining balance to the straight line method. Mostly this is done through a slide...
Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Depreciation (Double Declining)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Have you ever been told that your new car begins to lose its value as soon as you drive it off the lot? Aspiring accountants take on the concepts of depreciation and book value through an easy-to-deliver career and technology lesson. The...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Accounting-Plant Assets and Depreciation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study current assets and plant assets. They post entries to the general ledger and explore the effects of depreciation on plant assets, how to calculate the depreciation expense for an entire fiscal year using the Straight-Line...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Depreciation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students perform computations involving depreciation of assets. They will study methods such as straight line depreciation, sum of the digits method and double declining balance depreciation.
Article
Wolters Kluwer

Biz Filings: Capital Assets and Depreciation

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives an overview of depreciating plant assets and the reasons for doing so. A chart also provides a comparison of the straight-line and declining-balance methods of depreciation.