Comment by gnopgnip
6 months ago
Generally it’s not a choice. Valuable assets are required to be amortized over their useful life with limited exceptions
6 months ago
Generally it’s not a choice. Valuable assets are required to be amortized over their useful life with limited exceptions
For the tangible ones, it's often relatively easy to get financing that lets you spread the payment over the asset's useful life, which solves most of the cash flow issues you get if you pay in cash up front but have to spread the expense over many years.
Your previous comment mixed tangible and intangible. R&D is intangible, so I focused there. Your response mostly applies to tangible. I think the other reply to you here makes a great point. Let's try not to talk past each other!
Valuable assets includes both tangible and intagible, it applies to both
Can you help me understand what you're arguing?