Why record depreciation expense by debiting the expense and crediting accumulated depreciation? Why not just credit the

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Why record depreciation expense by debiting the expense and crediting accumulated depreciation? Why not just credit the asset cost so that the balance sheet shows just the remaining undepreciated cost? 

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