Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Subtotal function in Excel
  • Calculate Conditional Percentile ‘IF’ in table in Excel
  • Conditional Formatting Icon Sets Examples in Excel
  • How To Perform and Interpret Regression Analysis in Excel
  • How to calculate average last N values in a table in Excel

References

  • How to calculate two-way lookup VLOOKUP in Excel Table
  • Extract data with helper column in Excel
  • How to get last row in mixed data with blanks in Excel
  • Left Lookup in Excel
  • How to get first column number in range in Excel

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation whole percentage only
  • Excel Data validation must contain specific text
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Data validation must not exist in list
  • Excel Data validation allow uppercase only

VDB function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

by

What is VDB function in Excel?

VDB function is one of Financial functions in Microsoft Excel that returns the depreciation of an asset for any period you specify, including partial periods, using the double-declining balance method or some other method you specify. VDB stands for variable declining balance.

Syntax of VDB function

VDB(cost, salvage, life, start_period, end_period, [factor], [no_switch])

The VDB function syntax has the following arguments:

  • Cost: The initial cost of the asset.
  • Salvage: The value at the end of the depreciation (sometimes called the salvage value of the asset). This value can be 0.
  • Life: The number of periods over which the asset is depreciated (sometimes called the useful life of the asset).
  • Start_period: The starting period for which you want to calculate the depreciation. Start_period must use the same units as life.
  • End_period: The ending period for which you want to calculate the depreciation. End_period must use the same units as life.
  • Factor(Optional): The rate at which the balance declines. If factor is omitted, it is assumed to be 2 (the double-declining balance method). Change factor if you do not want to use the double-declining balance method. For a description of the double-declining balance method, see DDB.
  • No_switch(Optional): A logical value specifying whether to switch to straight-line depreciation when depreciation is greater than the declining balance calculation.
    • If no_switch is TRUE, Microsoft Excel does not switch to straight-line depreciation even when the depreciation is greater than the declining balance calculation.
    • If no_switch is FALSE or omitted, Excel switches to straight-line depreciation when depreciation is greater than the declining balance calculation.

Important: All arguments except no_switch must be positive numbers.

Example of VDB function

Steps to follow:

1. Open a new Excel worksheet.

2. Copy data in the following table below and paste it in cell A1

Note: For formulas to show results, select them, press F2 key on your keyboard and then press Enter.

You can adjust the column widths to see all the data, if need be.

Data Description
2400 Initial cost
300 Salvage value
10 Lifetime in years
Formula Description Result
=VDB(A2, A3, A4*365, 0, 1) First day’s depreciation. Excel automatically assumes that factor is 2. $1.32
=VDB(A2, A3, A4*12, 0, 1) First month’s depreciation. $40.00
=VDB(A2, A3, A4, 0, 1) First year’s depreciation. $480.00
=VDB(A2, A3, A4*12, 6, 18) Depreciation between the sixth month and the eighteenth month. $396.31
=VDB(A2, A3, A4*12, 6, 18, 1.5) Depreciation between the sixth month and the eighteenth month using a factor of 1.5 instead of the double-declining balance method. $311.81
=VDB(A2, A3, A4, 0, 0.875, 1.5) Depreciation for the first fiscal year that you own the asset, assuming that tax laws limit you to 150-percent depreciation of the declining balance. Asset is purchased in the middle of the first quarter of the fiscal year. $315.00

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to generate random date between two dates in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • IF function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Return blank if in Excel
  • SWITCH function example in Excel
  • How to return blank in place of #DIV/0! error in Excel
  • Excel If, Nested If, And/Or Criteria Examples

Date Time

  • Get fiscal year from date in Excel
  • Get month name from date in Excel
  • Count holidays between two dates in Excel
  • Convert text timestamp into time in Excel
  • Convert date to month and year in Excel

Grouping

  • Group times into 3 hour buckets in Excel
  • Group numbers at uneven intervals in Excel
  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • If cell contains one of many things in Excel
  • Map text to numbers in Excel

General

  • How to fill cell ranges with random number from fixed set of options in Excel
  • Check if multiple cells have same value in Excel
  • Share Excel data with Word documents
  • How to calculate profit margin percentage in Excel
  • 231 Keyboard Shortcut Keys In Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning