Plant assets:
Plant assets are assets which are tangible in nature and are used in a company’s operations that have a useful life of more than 1 accounting period. Plant assets are also called as plant and equipment assets. They include all the normal cost and reasonable expenditures that are spent to put that particular plant asset to use.
Journal entries are the transactions of quantitative nature that are made in the books of accounts to record every transaction that happens in the business in the chronological order.
Accounting rules for journal entries:
- To increase balance of the account: Debit assets, expenses, losses and credit all liabilities, capital, revenue and gains.
- To decrease balance of the account: Credit assets, expenses, losses and debit all liabilities, capital, revenue and gains.
Depreciation is the amount of decrease in the value of an asset within a set time period due to wear and tear of that particular asset. It helps in readjusting the actual cost of the particular asset o which the depreciation is applied.
To Prepare: Journal Entries.

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