Talk:Documentation/Calc Functions/SYD

SF Comments

 * (1) Summary. Suggest the following replacement wording – “Calculates the depreciation of an asset for a specific period using the sum-of-years-digits method, when the useful life of the asset is specified as a number of such periods. This is an accelerated method that gives higher depreciation in the earlier periods of the asset’s useful life.”.
 * (2) Returns. Suggest changing “the arithmetic-declining depreciation rate for some inital Cost with final value as Salvage for a lifetime value as Life calculating for a certain Period” to “the amount of depreciation for a specific period using the sum-of-years-digits method for the given arguments”. Maybe state that the value is, by default, formatted as a currency.
 * (3) Arguments, Cost. Change “an asset” to “the asset”. Maybe state that this argument should be entered in the same currency unit as the Salvage argument.
 * (4) Arguments, Salvage. Change “an asset” to “the asset”. Maybe state that this argument should be entered in the same currency unit as the Cost argument.
 * (5) Arguments, Life. Change “period fixing the time span over which an asset is depreciated” to “number of periods over which the asset is being depreciated”.
 * (6) Arguments, bullet. Add “or -1” after “0”.
 * (7) Additional details. Please include a link to Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depreciation#Sum-of-years-digits_method page.
 * (8) Additional details, 1st bullet. Delete as not relevant.
 * (9) Examples. I do not believe that the large table, and the words surrounding it, should be included in the wiki. It is already contained in the Help and its inclusion here is inconsistent with the rest of the wiki pages (specifically there is no such table on the SLN or DDB pages). And above all, I do not feel it adds any great value to the wiki page. I would prefer to add a couple of extra examples in the small table.

--Stevefanning (talk) 2020-11-27T10:29:27 (UTC)

Laura Comments
Updated the page and addressed SF comments.