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Excerpt from Depreciation and Wasting Assets, and Their Treatment in Computing Annual Profit and Loss, 1920 This work has been carefully revised, and three chapters have been added dealing with the following subjects - The "then value" of plant as discussed in the case of The National Telephone Company v. The Postmaster-General. Memorandum and criticism on the financial proposals of the London County Council report on London electricity supply. Depreciation and controlled establishments under the Munitions of War Act, 1915. The economic and political importance of advancing the science of measuring the annual profits of industry is becoming plainer to the many who are seeking answers to the questions: "What is the fair share of capital and what is the fair share of labour in the annual profits of industry?" It is obvious that before such questions can be satisfactorily answered, it must be possible to ascertain the annual profits of industry with such a degree of accuracy as shall exclude the irregular methods and wholesale guesswork at present prevailing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.