Non-Current Assets and Depreciation On the simplified statement of financial position, the non-current assets (NCA) account is equal to the gross property, plant and equipment (PPE) account (which records the acquisition cost of property, plant and equipment) minus the accumulated depreciation (AD) account (which records the total depreciation taken by the firm against its property, plant and equipment). Using the fact that NCA =

PPE − AD, show that the expression for net capital spending, NCAend − NCAbeg + D (where D is the depreciation expense during the year), is equivalent to PPEend − PPEbeg.