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Fixed depreciation costs
There is an amount of depreciation costs of existing assets, set at € 525.187 fixed costs which you can find in the operating review and which you cannot influence. This part of the fixed costs is called Depreciation going concern. You do not have to bother about this amount, though it is around 34,64% of your total of costs.
New investments
However, if you do new investments, you will get a cost group Extra depreciation on your operating review.
In you explanations you should calculate how you want to do this.
If you make an investment of € 200.000 in year on and want to depreciate it in 4 years, this means € 50.000 extra depreciation costs in year 1. In year 2 you decide upon another investment of € 80.000 to be depreciated in 10 years. So additional costs will be for depreciating this investment € 8.000 together with the extra depreciation costs from year 1 (€ 50.000) you should fill out € 58.000 extra depreciation costs.
Year 3 no investments, the total extra depreciation costs stays at € 58.000.
You can have any extra investment costs as long as the total extra costs per year do not exceed € 250.000 per year as additional (see the page decisions). Remember there is a history on the hotel. You carefully have to explain the amount, check the specific file investments on this.
