Journal Entries for Depreciation

When you run depreciation, Oracle Assets creates journal entries for your accumulated depreciation accounts and your depreciation expense accounts. Oracle Assets creates journal entries for your bonus reserve accounts and your bonus depreciation accounts, if any. Oracle Assets creates separate journal entries for current period depreciation expense and for adjustments to depreciation expense for prior period transactions and changes to financial information.

Oracle Assets creates the following journal entries for a current period depreciation charge of $200 and a bonus charge of $50:

Account Description Debit Credit
Depreciation Expense 200.00  
Bonus Expense 50.00  
Accumulated Depreciation   200.00
Bonus Reserve   50.00

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