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hello everyone hi welcome to the channel of Wallstreetmojo friends today we are

going to learn our concept that is on capitalization vs. expensing will be

learning the differences on the same with few examples so let's begin now

first of all capitalization vs. expenses capitalization is basically defining as

a recording of the cost like an asset so in spite of

in spite of an expense such a consideration is done while cost has not

been believed to be completely disbursed over the existing period of instead in a

prolonged time period so removing a key item from the company's income statement

while consecutively including it in to the firm's balance sheet for just

showing the depreciation as a key charge contrary to the profits which may lead

to expanding the profit significantly as you can see there is a transaction over

here 3.8 13.8 billion 2001 expenditure line up the regulator what is required

as for the gap over here what the world comm did exactly the world come decline

had declared the bankruptcy in July 2002 the chief accounting and Finance

executives were charged with the fraud what exactly did it over here

as for the regulators as for the norms the same should had been capitalized so

that must have been had to be treated as operating expenses that means it had to

hit the P&L account rather than that what they did just not to show that

amount as the expense which would have reduced the profit they capitalized and

what was the financial impact of the same the income over here should had

been deducted by 3.818 billion but over here the 3.8

billion was capitalized right in the balance sheet and you to which there was

a window dressing so this is why it is really very important from this exact

very example which is WorldCom that happened in 2002 we need to learn

something from this and we need to be very vigilant regarding this particular

concept considering the telecom giant wall combos major portion of the

expenses comprised of operating expenditures referred to as a line cost

such cost to a remuneration offered to indigenous phone companies for using

their phone lines in general the line expenditure were treated normally like

usual operating expenditure however it was assumed that a part of this

expenditure was real investments in undiscovered market and are not expected

to pay off for the several years to come so this logic was employed by companies

here for Scott Sullivan who started capitalizing you know this particular

thing as you can see his firm's line caused during the later part of the

1990s and therefore this expenditure would remove

from the company's income statement and thereby increasing the profits of the

company by several billion dollars in acro across Wall Street it look like

WorldCom suddenly started delivering profits even in doubt done and that was

skipped by the industry experts until a major collapse that was witness later so

welcomed declared bankruptcy in July 2002 now let's begin the concept of

capitalization vs expensing capitalization is basically recording an

expense as an asset right this is done when it is believed that the benefits of

such expense will be delivered for an extended period of time

like for instance let's say there is office goods right I believe to get

spent fast and thereby they are treated to be spent simultaneously a vehicle is

recorded a vehicle is basically is recorded like an immovable asset and

expected to get it in spent over significantly over long time period by a

depreciation as this vehicle is expect to get consumed over a much longer time

period compared to the office supplies so expenses in then in the other hand is

referred to as the assumption of an expenditure like an operating expense

instead of capital investment so considering taxation and expenses

reduced from being come directly whereas an asset is depreciated over a business

undertaken a series of reductions over the assets useful life let's take one

example of capitalization example if let's say a company let's say a company

buys a car okay and that car is worth let's say $50,000 and that happened

let's say in 2017 now since the company has paid off paid for the expenses

should we take the expense of 50,000 over here as you can see in the

income statement of 2017 or should we record this expense something somewhere

else you got it so let's assume that car has a useful life of let's say 10 years

this means that the company can derive the benefit of the car until the 10th

year therefore it will not be wise to record all the expenditure at once in

the income statement so we should capitalize this expenditure of 50,000

and reduce it the amount of the value derived each

year so the about discussed expense all through the account accounting is

referred to as depreciation so let's see some of the summarization part of

capitalization reverses expenses let's see some of the key differences how

things work out I'm just going to write Cap and over here as expenses XP so the

major suggestions on the choose between expensing versus capitalizing is while

reporting profits every period so if one chooses to capitalize any any assets as

against expensing it leads to a greater profit while successively leading to

greater taxes as well as improved business value however if we select to

go for expensing for any assets rather than its capitalization would deliver

just opposite results as you can see the cost incurred in case of capitalization

it will go to balance sheet the net income depreciation or amortization on

over here that will there will be a cash outflow so the balance sheet impact will

be they'll be hit hit on the asset side

that will be increasing the assets and there'll be a cash outflow if it

explained expensed in the income statement the net income that is in the

P&L profit and loss account there'll be an expense and there'll be a cash

outflow the CFI inflow cash flow of investment activity there will be an

outflow over here it is there will be a cash flow operation actual activity will

be an outflow so let's get back to over here first in case of capitalization the

cost this is the difference we are doing it the cost recorded is over here is as

an asset of the company and over here the cost recorded as an operating

expenditure on the income statement second while capitalization capitalizing

any cost and later amortizing it results

in the cost distributed over a longer period of time and over here under the

normal conditions complete expenses incurred while making any purchases

let's talk about the 3rd point while capitalization capitalizing any cost any

later amortizing it

results in the cost distributed over a long period of time and over here under

normal conditions complete expense is incurred while making any purchases

fourth point for asset capitalization it should possess valuable life that covers

more than existing years so this assets must be capable of running the entire

business however any inventory being sold to customer does not qualify to

become capital assets like fixed assets fixed assets are generally considered

like equipment or range of intangible assets like patents copyrights

I'd usually like ought to be depreciated as against being amortized while in this case while

starting a purchasing or business IRS enables want to remuneration the business

beginning or procurement cost the expenditure made to consume a patents

copyrights trademark or comparable rational property may be amortized so

one may repay goodwill you know that's worried that that is generally expected

to be realized during the sales or into the ongoing usage of the repetition or

name of any product or business that you intend to acquire and generally IRS

allows one to repay geological expenditures that are intended to

develop or look at petroleum wells as across the United States and one could

even repay the research expenditures the fifth point that is a general rule any

procurement beyond a specific dollar range is counted to be a capital

expenditure or capitalization now over here a general rule purchasing lesser

than the allocated dollar range is treated as an operating expenditure

finally sixth point as an accounting upon an assets capitalization is assumed

that the asset is still having an economic value and is believed to be the

prospective period and does is mentioned over the balance sheet while in case of

expenditure uh any expense comprises of the core economic costs that are

incurred by any business through daily operations for earning revenue so every

business is permitted to write off all the tax-deductible expenditure on the

specific returns for income tax to minimize the taxable income

hence the tax liability most common business expenditure comprises of like

supply payments wages to employees factories and a precision equipment