Declining-Balance Method: An accounting method of depreciation for income-tax purposes designed to provide larger-than-straight-line deductions in the early years of a propertys life, and applicable to property placed in service before 1981.

 

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Previous Balance Method: Method of calculating finance charges based on the account balance at the end of the previous month.

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