It can be demonstrated that this conclusion is not supported by the FASB’s implicit individual event perspective. If one takes an individual event perspective, the characteristics of a liability resulting from depreciating an individual asset using different depreciation methods are present only if the temporary differences between taxable income and financial statement income that result in future net taxable amounts can be recovered through the use of sufficient future taxable income. However, these timing differences may reverse when the firm has no taxable income or incurred a loss. Since taxes are not paid, there is no future economic sacrifice