Individual Income Taxes
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Explain under the circumstances in which a company would elect to amortize research and experimental expenditures rather than using the expense method.
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How should research and development costs be accounted for, according to an IASB Statement?
a. Must be capitalized when incurred and then amortized over their estimated useful lives.
b. Must be expensed in the period incurred.
c. May be either capitalized or expensed when incurred, depending upon the materiality of the amounts involved.
d. Must be expensed in the period incurred unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the expenditure will have alternative future uses or unless contractually reimbursable.
Which of the following costs would be capitalized?
a.
Cost of research to determine whether a market for the product exists.
b.
Salaries of research staff.
c.
Engineering costs incurred to advance the product to the full production stage.
d.
Acquisition cost of equipment to be used on current research project only.
ts) Which principle has FASB used to determine the accounting method for recording research and
development costs? (7)
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O Systematic allocation over the life of the asset
O Minimization of income tax payments
O Associating the cause of the expense with its recognition
O Immediate recognition of costs with no certain future benefit
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