Sherry Miller, ARNP is a medicare enrolled Nurse Practitioner - Family in Mason City, Iowa. She graduated from nursing school in 2015 and has 3 years of diverse experience with area of expertise as Nurse Practitioner.
Major repairs to production equipment should be capitalized. The repair to the asset will extend the useful life of the piece of equipment, which is an allowable reason to capitalize an expense. Companies should be careful, however, to not capitalize the maintenance cost of a piece of equipment.
Upon retirement or sale, the cost of assets disposed of and their related accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts. Any resulting gain or loss is credited or charged to operations. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense when incurred, while betterments are capitalized.