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.
For example, if you pave over vacant land and use it as a parking lot, you will have to capitalize the cost. However, in many other cases, the line between repairs and improvements is not as clear cut. Obviously, it may be in your best interest to have work labeled a repair rather than an improvement.