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On a cashflow basis, you incur 100% of the depreciation at the moment you pay for it.


But wouldn’t your profit be awesome the years you didn’t have to claim depreciation?


Hence you’ve invented EBITDA and EBITDA less capex :)


Damnit that was a major self own I just did wasn’t it?


It just means you’ve internalized the concepts!




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