Over time, the value of a company's capital assets decline. This is a normal phenomenon driven by wear and tear, obsolescence, and other factors. This depreciation in the asset's value must be ...

Small businesses commonly make capital expenditures at one time or another. This cost is an amount you pay to buy or upgrade a long-term asset, such as a computer or a machine. The actual cost of a ...

You can think of capital expenditures (capex) as long-term, less frequent utilizations (uses) of capital. For example, the costs of buying a new building, acquiring a competitor firm, expanding a ...

Every dollar received in a capital expenditures (capex) budget must be returned to the company treasury one way or another. In “The Depreciation Cycle,” we described that process. Above: This table ...

When a business makes a purchase, it's generally a capital expenditure or a revenue expenditure. Revenue expenditures are normal business expenses that use an asset, like cash, to produce a good or a ...

This guideline provides guidance for capitalization, depreciation/amortization and construction in progress of capital assets purchased, constructed or developed ...

There is a little-known way of analyzing the growth potential of energy companies, and when you look at Kinder Morgan through this lens, you see something amazing. Today, I'd like to teach an ...