Match Each Term with the Appropriate Explanation

Multiple Choice

Match each term with the appropriate explanation.Not all explanations will be used.
-Asset impairment loss

A) Assets that will be used for more than a year.
B) When a company writes down the value of an asset when estimated future cash flows fall below the original level estimated.
C) The numerator of the fixed asset turnover ratio.
D) The cost of financing an asset.
E) When costs are recorded as assets rather than expenses.
F) How expenses are reported in the income statement.
G) The denominator of the fixed asset turnover ratio.
H) The average proportion of a company's total assets that is long-lived.
I) A depreciation method that produces higher amounts of depreciation expense in the early years of an asset's life and lower amounts in the later years.
J) When a company writes down the value of an asset because estimated future cash flows fall below the book value.
K) Assets that have physical substance.
L) A depreciation method that spreads asset cost by use rather than time.
M) The process of transferring the cost of long-lived tangible assets to expenses.
N) Also known as book value.