Tenax Therapeutics' (TENX) CEO John Kelley on Q3 2015 Results-Earnings Call Transcript.
Debit the cost of the asset and credit the loan account with the capitalized interest. In the example, debit the asset cost and credit the loan account with $50,000. The asset cost available for depreciation at the end of Year One is therefore $1,050,000. Debit the interest expense account and credit the loan account with any interest paid in excess of the interest capitalized. For example, if the total interest paid in the first year was $75,000, debit the interest expense account and credit the loan account with $75,000 minus $50,000, or $25,000.
Capitalization can be used as a tool to commit financial statement reporting fraud. If costs are capitalized that should have been charged to expense, current income is inflated, at the expense of future periods over which additional depreciation will now be charged.apitalization is also based on the concept of materiality. If a cost is too small, it is charged to expense at once, rather than bothering with a series of accounting calculations and journal entries to capitalize it and then gradually charge it to expense over time.