Calculating depreciation using the straight-line method (SLN)

- [Narrator] The most straightforward method…you can use to calculate depreciation,…is to use the straight-line method.…As the name implies, the straight-line method…assigns depreciation evenly over…the economic life of an asset.…The starting amount is the asset's purchase price,…and the ending value is the asset's salvage value.…If your asset has an economic life of 10 years,…and the salvage value of zero, for example,…it will depreciate in value by 10%…each year, until it reaches zero.…To calculate straight-line depreciation,…you use the SLN function.…

I'll demonstrate how to use that function in this movie.…My sample file is Straightline_02_01,…and you can find it in the chapter two folder…of your exercise files collection.…In this case, we're looking at a…standard model 3.2 gigabyte desktop computer,…with an initial cost of 1500 dollars,…and then a salvage value of 200 dollars,…which is what we assume we can sell the computer for…at the end of its useful economic life of five years.…With those values in place, let's go ahead…