Title: Accounting for Buildings & Improvements | Finance & Business
Headings: Accounting for Buildings & Improvements
Accounting for Buildings & Improvements
Guidance on establishing when costs for buildings and improvements must be capitalized at the university.
Procedures
1. Purchased Buildings:
2. Construction and Improvements:
3. Fixed Equipment
4. General Improvements

Content: OP Capital Projects
10-year plan
2. Construction and Improvements: Plant Funds: All costs associated with the construction of new buildings and structures should be capitalized. These costs should be capitalized when construction projects are 90% complete or a certificate of occupancy has been issued. Current funds: The range of expenditures that properly should be treated as capital additions is so varied that it is impossible to provide explicit guidelines. An analysis is made at the time a requisition or purchase order is issued to determine the nature of the work being performed. An evaluation is made to decide if activity is a capitalized additions: must be consistent,
additions must be material (over $35,000)
and the additions must benefit future periods (greater usefulness, increase efficiency, increased life of building).