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capitalize (1) In finance:(a) To add an expenditure to the basis of property.(b) To provide funding to an enterprise. (c) To book something as an asset and depreciate it rather than writing off the money spent as an expense.(When one “cooks the books”for a business,extensive repairs might be capitalized as improvements in order to make the enterprise appear more valuable than it is in reality.This approach runs counter to the normal taxpayer desire to treat all repairs as expenses in order to gain maximum tax deductions in the current year.) (2) In appraisal,to estimate the present value of an income stream from a business or property. Capitalize To treat the cost of additions and improvements to property as a capital improvement or expenditure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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ii) Gross deduction or capitalizable expenditure, equal to the full value of the rights conveyed plus any cash payments made. The basic question involves the difference between deductible and capitalizable expenditures. Identify contracts that contain capitalizable assets |
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