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Classify the following as capital expenditure. revenue expenditure and deferred revenue expenditure for a cloth merchant?
  1. Preliminary Expenses
  2. Purchase of Furniture
  3. Payment of Salary
  4. Expenses paid for construction of building.
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State with reasons whether the following are capital or revenue expenditures:
  1. A new machine is purchased for ₹ 60,000, ₹ 800 were spent on its carriage and ₹ 1,500 were paid as wages for its installation.
  2. A sum of ₹ 10,000 was spent on painting the new factory.
  3. ₹ 5,000 paid for the erection of a new machine.
  4. ₹ 2,000 were spent on repairs before using a second hand generator purchased recently.
  5. ₹ 1,500 were spent on the repair of a machinery.
  6. ₹ 10,000 was paid as brokerage on issue of shares and other expenses of issue were ₹ 25,000.
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State whether the following expenditure are Capital, Revenue or Deferred Revenue. Give reasons:
  1. Furniture of the book value of ₹ 10,000 were sold off at ₹ 2,500 and new furniture of the value of ₹ 6,000 were acquired, cartage on purchase ₹ 50.
  2. Property purchased for ₹ 20,00,000 and ₹ 1,50,000 paid for its registration and legal fee.
  3. Replacement of old machine by a new one.
  4. Damages paid by a transport company to its passengers injured in an accident.
  5. Erection of shed for parking of vehicles at a cost of ₹ 10 Lac.
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State with reasons whether the following receipts would be treated as Capital or Revenue:
  1. ₹ 5,000 received from a customer whose account was previously written off as bad.
  2. ₹ 20,000 received from sale of old machine.
  3. ₹ 2,60,000 received from sale of stock-in-trade.
  4. ₹ 5,00,000 is contributed by a partner as capital.
  5. Took a loan of ₹ 10 Lac from Punjab National Bank.
  6. Received ₹ 4 Lac as subsidy from State Government.
  7. Received ₹ 8 Lac as grant from State Government for the construction of quarters for the staff.
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Classify the following into Capital, Revenue and Deferred Revenue expenditure, stating reasons in each case:
  1. A sum of ₹ 32,000 has been spent on a machine as follows: (i) ₹ 20,000 for addition to double the output, (ii) ₹ 5,000 for repairs necessitated by negligence and (iii) ₹ 7,000 for replacement of worn-out parts.
  2. Total expenditure on a cinema building during the year was ₹ 2,00,000 out of which 20% related to repairs and 80% represented improvements and additions.
  3. Compensation paid to a retrenched employee for the loss of employment.
  4. Second-hand furniture worth ₹ 40,000 was purchased and repairing of this furniture cost ₹ 15,000. The furniture was installed by own workmen-wages for this being ₹ 5,000.
  5. A person was injured by the motor car of the company. ₹ 10,000 was paid to him by way of compensation.
  6. Advertisement expenditure in special advertisement drive.
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