Capitalization: Concept Checker

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1) When capitalizing a long-lived asset, which of the following ARE NOT included in the capitalized amount?
- Overhead
- Freight and insurance in delivering asset
- Maintenance and repair
- Sales Tax

2) A firm will show smoother net income when costs are capitalized. Over time, will the variance in net income between firms that capitalize costs and firms that expenses costs increases or decrease? Will net income variability between expensing and capitalizing be greater for larger or smaller firms?

3) True or false? Expensing will result in lower profitability in absolute terms (e.g. net income) but will not result in lower profitability ratios (ROA/ROE) in all situations.

4) True or false? If the firm is experiencing negative growth (depreciation > capex), expensing will still result in lower profitability?

5) An analyst makes the following statements.
i) "When a firm capitalizes a cost, it create a shift from CFO to CFI. As a result, reported CFO is greater than a firm that expenses costs and CFI is lower than a firm that expenses costs. However, over time, this shift of expenditures from CFO to CFI will reverse as the capitalized assets amortize"
ii) "While the shift of cash flow from CFO to CFI nets to zero, there is a real cash benefit from capitalizing costs as income taxes are lower. This results in greater net income for a capitalizing firm"

6) The CFO of a company has an outstanding term loan with a leverage (debt/assets) covenant that must be under 1.5x at the end of the year. In September, he notices that the company has already tripped their covenant by a small margin. Ethical considerations aside, should he capitalize or expense costs for the remaining quarter to bring the covenant back into compliance?

7) True or False? IFRS requires the capitalization of interest costs incurred in construction of a new asset because the total cost of self constructed assets should equal their market cost at acquisition.

8) CFA states that the capitalization of interest for all firms is not logical because the financing costs associated with different firms can vary dramatically and the company's leverage should not impact the value of the constructed asset. All of the following adjustments should be made to a firm that capitalizes interest expense. What key step has been excluded regarding cash flows?
- Add capitalized interest expense back to the income statement
- Reduce net income by the interest expense
- Subtract interest expense from CFO thereby reducing CFO.

9) All of the following are challenges of valuing internally created intangible assets EXCEPT?
- Costs of creating assets may not be easily separable from other firm operations
- Duration of benefit can be hard to estimate
- Intangible assets are more valuable to the firm that created them than they are to other firms and will not realize fair value when sold.
- There may be little relationship between the cost to create such assets and their ultimate value.

10) True or false? Firms must always expense research costs but can sometimes capitalize development costs

11) True of false? Patents are highly valuable to a firm an are capitalizable. However, the legal fees and patent costs must be expensed.

12) Which is the only type of advertising cost that can be capitalized? Bonus: Why can it be capitalized?

13) True or false? The easiest, least controversial type of intangible that is capitalized are those which are purchase at fair market value from a third party in an arms-length transaction?

14) What must be established for software development costs to be capitalized?
 
1) Maintaneence and repair (expense these)
2) capitalize firm smooth earnings. Small firms will show greater variability because of small asset base
3) Expensing will lower profitability ratios earlier, but if capital costs are increasing, and asset base is growing, Expensing will give better profitability than capitalizing
oh god i can' tdo this exam.
 
MCF. post the answers already so I can read them and learn.
 
1. maint and repair
2. A) variance between earnings will decrease B) smaller firms
3. false
4. true
5. i)true ii)false
6. Capitalize
7. true
8. reduce NI by interest exp
9. no idea
10. false
11. false
12. direct response (a direct relation between marketing and sales
13. true
14. feasibility
 
14, Feasibility
13, True
12, Direct advetisign related... because it is directly related to revenue generation
11 , False
10, True
9, Intangible assets are more valuable to the firm that created them than they are to other firms and will not realize fair value when sold.
8, adjust assset and adjust the equity (reduce)
7, False
6, Capitalise
5 ii, False
5i , True
4, False
3, False
2, greater for smaller firms & decrease
1, Overhead, & Maintenance and repair
 
1- - Overhead

2- depends on how depreciation, normally would decrease over time, larger for larger firms (more CAPex - expense)

3- wrong, will always result in lower profitability in the period incurred

4- correct

5- i) wrong - amortization is non-cash
ii) wrong, income taxes are higher

6) ethics aside, definitely capitalize

7) it is optional under IFRS

8) add interest expense to CFF? hmm

9) Intangible assets are more valuable to the firm that created them than they are to other firms and will not realize fair value when sold.

10) sfotware development can be capitalized once economic feasibility has been established

11) legal fees can be capitalized

12) direct marketing, because the matching principle can be followed

13) true, goodwill

14) economic feasibility
 
1) When capitalizing a long-lived asset, which of the following ARE NOT included in the capitalized amount?
- Overhead
- Maintenance and repair


2) A firm will show smoother net income when costs are capitalized. Over time, will the variance in net income between firms that capitalize costs and firms that expenses costs increases or decrease? Will net income variability between expensing and capitalizing be greater for larger or smaller firms?
- Decrease
- Smaller

3) True or false? Expensing will result in lower profitability in absolute terms (e.g. net income) but will not result in lower profitability ratios (ROA/ROE) in all situations.
- False. Expensing tends to lead to lower profitability than capitalizing for GROWING firms.

4) True or false? If the firm is experiencing negative growth (depreciation > capex), expensing will still result in lower profitability?
- False. Same as above, essentially

5) An analyst makes the following statements.
i) "When a firm capitalizes a cost, it create a shift from CFO to CFI. As a result, reported CFO is greater than a firm that expenses costs and CFI is lower than a firm that expenses costs. However, over time, this shift of expenditures from CFO to CFI will reverse as the capitalized assets amortize"
ii) "While the shift of cash flow from CFO to CFI nets to zero, there is a real cash benefit from capitalizing costs as income taxes are lower. This results in greater net income for a capitalizing firm"
Both statements are false. The shift between CFO and CFI never corrects. It just grows over time. There is no cash benefit for capitalizing versus expensing.

6) The CFO of a company has an outstanding term loan with a leverage (debt/assets) covenant that must be under 1.5x at the end of the year. In September, he notices that the company has already tripped their covenant by a small margin. Ethical considerations aside, should he capitalize or expense costs for the remaining quarter to bring the covenant back into compliance?
- Capitalize to get more assets on the books

7) True or False? IFRS requires the capitalization of interest costs incurred in construction of a new asset because the total cost of self constructed assets should equal their market cost at acquisition.
- False. GAAP requires it.

8) CFA states that the capitalization of interest for all firms is not logical because the financing costs associated with different firms can vary dramatically and the company's leverage should not impact the value of the constructed asset. All of the following adjustments should be made to a firm that capitalizes interest expense. What key step has been excluded regarding cash flows?
- Add capitalized interest expense back to the income statement
- Reduce net income by the interest expense
- Subtract interest expense from CFO thereby reducing CFO.

- I was looking for "add interest expense back to CFI"

9) All of the following are challenges of valuing internally created intangible assets EXCEPT?
- Intangible assets are more valuable to the firm that created them than they are to other firms and will not realize fair value when sold.

10) True or false? Firms must always expense research costs but can sometimes capitalize development costs
True. Under certain situations, development costs can be capitalized.

11) True of false? Patents are highly valuable to a firm an are capitalizable. However, the legal fees and patent costs must be expensed.
Vice-versa. The legal fees and patent costs are capitalized.

12) Which is the only type of advertising cost that can be capitalized? Bonus: Why can it be capitalized?
Direct Advertising because you can clearly show the financial benefit created by the asset through customer response.

13) True or false? The easiest, least controversial type of intangible that is capitalized are those which are purchase at fair market value from a third party in an arms-length transaction?
- Very true.

14) What must be established for software development costs to be capitalized?
- Economic feasibility
 
Thanks MCF. Highly appreciated. All of them are really good questions/
 
3) True or false? Expensing will result in lower profitability in absolute terms (e.g. net income) but will not result in lower profitability ratios (ROA/ROE) in all situations.
- False. Expensing tends to lead to lower profitability than capitalizing for GROWING firms.

4) True or false? If the firm is experiencing negative growth (depreciation > capex), expensing will still result in lower profitability?
- False. Same as above, essentially

We need to keep in mind that this is a SR effect. In LR it reverses
 
D'Artagnan Wrote:
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> 3) True or false? Expensing will result in lower
> profitability in absolute terms (e.g. net income)
> but will not result in lower profitability ratios
> (ROA/ROE) in all situations.
> - False. Expensing tends to lead to lower
> profitability than capitalizing for GROWING firms.
>
>
> 4) True or false? If the firm is experiencing
> negative growth (depreciation > capex), expensing
> will still result in lower profitability?
> - False. Same as above, essentially
>
> We need to keep in mind that this is a SR effect.
> In LR it reverses

Are you thinking about capitalized leases?
 
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