When a long-term asset is purchased, it is often capitalized instead of being expensed in the given period. This is because that asset will generally still be economically useful and generate returns beyond that period, so expensing it in each period will overstate the expense in that period and understate them in all future periods. To avoid this, depreciation expense is used to better match the expense of a long-term asset to the revenue it generates.
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