Can someone clarify me on whether to capitalise watchman expenses when constructing a building.
This is 1/5 of the total cost of a building in progress.
Is this a directly attributable cost or not?
As per IAS 16 Par.17 (a) it states that: costs of employee benefits (as defined in IAS 19 Employee Benefits) arising directly FROM the construction or acquisition of the item of property, plant and equipment are directly attributable costs.
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Capitalise or not
12y ago#1Give me that again .... the cost of a watchman equates to 20% of the construction cost to date! Are you kidding?
If the costs to which you refer are directly attributable, then capitalise. But do they REALLY equate to 20%?
And what has pension costs got to do with this - it's surely only tangentially relevant to the origial question
Oh yes...for the moment watchmen expenses (day and night) amount to 20% for a building still in progress.Weird?
I usually thought that watchmen expenses (unlike direct labour like mason/carpentor) are indirect costs but as per IAS 16 Par 17a, it says that all costs arising FROM the construction of an asset are directly attributable costs (am i right).What do u think?
12y ago#3I think that this (very well paid) watchman is a directly attributable expense of building whatever is being constructed. Agreed, the watchman is not hands-on like a carpenter of plumber but is nevertheless an integral part of the costs of the asset under construction
But that's just my opinion. Personally, I'm tending towards capitalisation but could (if I wanted) persuade myself that it should be expensed
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