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You begin to depreciate your property when you place it in service for use in your trade or business or for the production of income. You stop depreciating property either when you have fully recovered your cost or other basis or when you retire it from service, whichever happens first.
For assets using flat-rate methods, depreciation starts in the accounting period that either the date placed in service or the prorate date falls into, depending on the depreciate when placed in service flag. Oracle Assets allocates the first year's depreciation to the accounting periods remaining in the fiscal year.