The company repaired a packaging machine at a cost of $27,000. It is expected that the repair will extend the life of the machine by four years No depreciation is necessary this year.
How do I properly record this scenario since it extends the useful life of the machine?
If an expenditure incurred will increase the capacity of asset say in life time or production capacity then such expense should be recorded as capital expenditure in book and hence capitalised. Day to day expense which are necessary to maintain current capacity should be charged to income statement.
In the given question since amount of repair increases the life time or machine therefore repair expense should be capitalsed to machine.
Journal will be
Machine account Dr. 27,000
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