Distinguish between ordinary repairs and improvements. How is each accounted for?
a. Capital expenditures—expenditures of resources (i.e., assets given up or debt incurred) for a service or asset that will help earn revenue for periods beyond the current accounting period. Capital expenditures should be debited to appropriate asset accounts and then allocated to those future periods in which revenues will be earned and against which the expenditures will be matched. Revenue expenditures—expenditures that help earn revenue only for the current period. Revenue expenditures are debited to appropriate expense accounts in the period in which incurred.
b. Ordinary repairs—expenditures for the normal maintenance and upkeep of machinery and other tangible long-lived assets that are necessary to keep the assets in their usual operating conditions. Generally, ordinary repairs are recurring in nature, involve relatively small amounts at each occurrence and do not extend the useful estimated life of the asset. Ordinary repairs are debited to expense in the period in which incurred. Improvements—unusual, nonrecurring, major renovations that are necessary because of unusual conditions.
Generally, they are large in amount, not recurring, and tend to either make the asset more efficient or to extend its useful life. Extraordinary repairs are debited to the appropriate asset accounts (or alternatively to the accumulated depreciation accounts) and in that way affect the amount of depreciation expense for the remaining estimated life of the asset.
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