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.
While capital and repair expenditures have been long recognized in both the accounting and tax area, deciding whether to capitalize or expense fixed asset-related expenditures still causes significant issues for the rest of us.