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Why should small businesses care to record depreciation? Depreciation Class 11 Accounts – Commerce Depreciation is an important aspect of accounting records that helps businesses keep their income statement and balance sheet in order, with profits recorded correctly. Using smart business accounting software can help you properly record depreciation without making human errors. As we now know, the meaning of depreciation is the methods used to compute it, we needed inputs to calculate it, and we also saw examples of how to calculate it. Let's look at why it's important for small businesses to keep track of depreciation. The aim of depreciation, as we all know, is to match the cost of a fixed asset during its useful life to the revenue generated by the business. Because it's difficult to link an asset's worth to its revenue, the cost is usually allocated to the number of years the asset is productive. The value of a fixed asset is transferred from the balance sheet to the