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What do you understand by capital and revenue expenditure?

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Question added by mustafa halfawi musa , SENIOR ACCOUNTANT , NASR TECHNOLOGIES Company
Date Posted: 2015/12/14
yar muhammad khan
by yar muhammad khan , FIELD EXPERIENCE , MEDICAL PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

capital expenditure is an amount spent to acquire or improve a long-term asset such as equipment or buildings. Usually the cost is recorded in an account classified as Property, Plant and Equipment. The cost (except for the cost of land) will then be charged to depreciation expense over the useful life of the asset.

REVENUE EXPENDITURE

revenue expenditure is an amount that is expensed immediately—thereby being matched with revenues of the current accounting period. Routine repairs are revenue expenditures because they are charged directly to an account such as Repairs and Maintenance Expense. Even significant repairs that do not extend the life of the asset or do not improve the asset (the repairs merely return the asset back to its previous condition) are revenue expenditures.

 

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