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''Financial reporting - tangible fixed assets.''
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Accounting depreciation spreads the cost of a long-term tangible asset over its total life.  
Prime brokerage is a service to large institutional investors, including hedge funds.


The accounting ''charge for depreciation'' reflects:
It includes securities lending and custody.
* the estimated periodic cost to a business
* of a physical capital asset
* spread over its estimated useful economic life.  




Also known as ''depreciation expense.''
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'Prime brokerage' can also refer to the business unit which provides prime brokerage services.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Accruals accounting]]
* [[Broker]]
* [[Accumulated depreciation]]
* [[Brokerage]]
* [[Amortisation]]
* [[Custody]]
* [[Appreciation]]
* [[Hedge fund]]
* [[Assets]]
* [[Internalisation]]
* [[Capital allowances]]
* [[Internalisation risk]]
* [[Capitalisation]]
* [[Liquidity risk]]
* [[Cost]]
* [[Prime]]
* [[Depreciation]]
* [[Securities lending]]
* [[EBITDA]]
* [[Net book value]]
* [[Property, plant and equipment]]
* [[Provision for depreciation]]
* [[Reducing balance]]
* [[Straight line]]
* [[Sum of the digits]]
* [[Tangible asset]]
* [[Tax depreciation]]
* [[Writing down allowance]]
 
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Revision as of 17:28, 15 December 2021

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Prime brokerage is a service to large institutional investors, including hedge funds.

It includes securities lending and custody.


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'Prime brokerage' can also refer to the business unit which provides prime brokerage services.


See also