capital expenses
Long-term investment costs
Capital expenses are costs incurred to acquire, upgrade, or extend the life of long-term assets like buildings, equipment, or machinery.
Distinguished from operating expenses, which cover day-to-day business costs, capital expenses represent investments expected to provide value over multiple years: The new factory equipment was classified as a capital expense.
Often shortened to capex.
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- brick and mortarBusiness with premises
- improvementPositive change in quality
amortization · fixed assets · depreciation · property · equipment · acquisition · building · upgrade · renovation · useful life · tax credits · budgeting · expenditures · balance sheet · bottom line · number crunching · fiscal year · land
- accountingbookkeeping, ledger, balance sheet, general ledger, accounts payable
- farm accountingfarm income, cash flow, balance sheets, income statements, profit and loss
- business expensespayroll, office rent, salaries, wages, office supplies
- Healthcare Financemedical billing, healthcare costs, patient billing, reimbursement, claims
- IT expenseshardware costs, license fees, subscription fees, maintenance costs, infrastructure costs
capital expensesoperating expenses
Routine business costs
operational costs · operating costs · OPEX · maintenance costs · overhead costs
capital expensescapital income
Earnings from investments
capital gains · revenue · investment returns · earnings · proceeds
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