{"id":49122,"date":"2025-04-08T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49122"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:09:10","slug":"excel-depreciation-db-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-depreciation-db-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel: depreciation: db function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions another neat function from it, this time about depreciation.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine one wants to calculate declining-balance depreciation for the following case: Purchase price of 10000, salvage of 1000, useful life of ten years: what is the depreciation expense during year 5?<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, it seems that with Excel&#8217;s db function, =db(1000, 1000, 10, 5), one could discover said expense as 818.75.<\/p>\n<p>Neat, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/db-function-354e7d28-5f93-4ff1-8a52-eb4ee549d9d7\">support.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions another neat function from it, this time about depreciation. Let&#8217;s imagine one wants to calculate declining-balance depreciation for the following case: Purchase price of 10000, salvage of 1000, useful life of ten years: what &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-depreciation-db-function\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excel: depreciation: db function<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583],"tags":[3612],"class_list":["post-49122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","tag-declining-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49124,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions\/49124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}