AFM291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Net Present Value, Book Value, Indian Railways

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The cost of an item of property, plant and equipment shall be recognized as an asset if and only if. It"s p(cid:396)o(cid:271)a(cid:271)le that futu(cid:396)e e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith the ite(cid:373) (cid:449)ill flo(cid:449) to the entity: the cost of the item can be measured reliably. Companies can capitalize all costs required to acquire or to construct the asset and to prepare it for its intended use. Overall criterion is that all costs necessary to prepare the particular asset for its intended use can be capitalized as part of the cost of the asset: self-construction costs. When building your own ppe, there are difficulties deciding whether an activity is part of construction and to which asset it belongs. Cost of building material, labour, overhead would go into the building costs. Decontamination cost would go into the land cost as you would decontamination needs to occur for the land to be placed in a developmental state.

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