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Get the latest news, expert insights and market research, tailored to your interests. Sign up with Email. Sign in with email Enter the email address associated with your account. You auth link is expired or incorrect, please try again. This will result in lower reported expenses and therefore higher net income.
Note that the decision to capitalize for GAAP purpose does not necessitate doing the same for tax purposes. As a result, companies looking to show higher net income for book purposes would prefer to capitalize software costs.
Quite a bit, especially in the decision regarding software that is sold to the public. Companies that are conservative generally classify software as available for sale once it reaches technological feasibility.
Less conservative companies may allocate most costs to the stage where the software is technologically feasible but not yet available for sale. Similarly, the decision to classify internally used software as in the development stage vs. AthenaHealth capitalizes a significant amount of development costs for internally used software. In their 10K , they explain that it is for internal use software called AthenaNet:. We capitalize certain costs related to the development of athenaNet services and other internal-use software.
Costs incurred during the application development phase are capitalized only when we believe it is probable the development will result in new or additional functionality. The types of costs capitalized during the application development phase include employee compensation, as well as consulting fees for third-party developers working on these projects. Costs related to the preliminary project stage and post-implementation activities are expensed as incurred. Internal-use software is amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the asset, which ranges from two to five years.
When internal-use software that was previously capitalized is abandoned, the cost less the accumulated amortization, if any, is recorded as amortization expense. Fully amortized capitalized internal-use software costs are removed from their respective accounts.
In their footnotes, you can see that these costs are amortized, exactly like other intangible assets :. Therefore, you must depreciate the software under the same method and over the same period of years that you depreciate the hardware. Additionally, if you buy the software as part of your purchase of all or a substantial part of a business, the software must generally be amortized over 15 years.
For tax years beginning before calendar year , bonus depreciation applies to developed software to the extent described above. For tax years beginning after calendar year , generally the only allowable treatment will be to amortize the costs over the five-year period beginning with the midpoint of the tax year in which the expenditures are paid or incurred.
If following any of the above rules requires you to change your treatment of software costs, it will usually be necessary for you to obtain IRS consent to the change. Sensiba San Filippo can assist you in applying the tax rules for treating computer software costs in the way that is most advantageous for you. Contact your Sensiba San Filippo Advisor or send us a message at info ssfllp.
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