The prevalence of intracranial artery calcification are: 1  internal carotid artery: ~60%. 2  vertebral artery ~20%. 3  middle cerebral artery ~5%. 4  basilar artery ~5%.
Costs paid or incurred before October 23, 2004, must be capitalized unless an election is made to amortize them. You can choose to deduct up to $5,000 of business start-up and $5,000 of organizational costs, paid or incurred after October 22, 2004, as a current business expense.
Generally research and development costs under GAAP are expensed as incurred. However, if it can be shown that these costs have future alternate uses, then a company may capitalize the cost. In this case, the company would capitalize the cost as an asset and then depreciate the asset over the expected life. It is important to note that personnel, indirect and contract costs can never be capitalized, regardless of whether a future alternative use exists or not.