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Difference Between Capital and Revenue Expenditure

Capital expenditure occurs when a business spends money on long-term assets that provide benefits over multiple years, such as purchasing office buildings, machinery, or patent rights. Revenue expenditure is spending used to operate the business on a daily basis and does not increase the value of assets, like fuel costs. The key difference is that capital expenditure adds to fixed assets while revenue expenditure is used up quickly and does not increase asset value, such as the fuel for a purchased car being revenue but the car itself a capital expenditure.

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Difference Between Capital and Revenue Expenditure

Capital expenditure occurs when a business spends money on long-term assets that provide benefits over multiple years, such as purchasing office buildings, machinery, or patent rights. Revenue expenditure is spending used to operate the business on a daily basis and does not increase the value of assets, like fuel costs. The key difference is that capital expenditure adds to fixed assets while revenue expenditure is used up quickly and does not increase asset value, such as the fuel for a purchased car being revenue but the car itself a capital expenditure.

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Capital Expenditure

Capital expenditure occurs when a business gets a long term advantage due to that expenditure. It is usually incurred for accusation of an asset. These expenditures do not occur in the regular day to day transactions of the business. Common examples

Purchase of furniture, office building etc. Purchase of additional furniture or machinery Expenditure incurred in connection with the purchase of a fixed asset. For example, carriage paid of machinery purchased. Purchase of patent right, copy rights etc.

Revenue Expenditure
Expenditure which is not for increasing the value of fixed assets, but for running the business on a day to day basis, is known as revenue expenditure.

Difference between Capital and Revenue expenditure


Buy a car is capital expenditure because its benefit to the business will be spread over a long time. Fuel cost for running this care is revenue expenditure and it will be used up in few days and does not add to the value of the fixed asset.

Capital receipts
Capital receipts consist of

additional payments made to the business either by owner or shareholder of the business; or from sale of fixed assets of the business.

Revenue receipts

Any receipt in the normal running or through day to day transactions of the business is categorized as Revenue receipt. Sales receipts of the business are revenue receipts.

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