Echoing their earlier comments to the Board's Exposure Draft, Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment, some respondents expressed concern that expensing rather than capitalizing costs associated with stewardship PP&amp;E would lessen the value of the operating statement as a tool for performance measurement since it would overstate the cost in the year an asset is acquired.
Respondents were vocal about expenses and they voiced their concerns.
Some respondents threatened violence in order to get their needs met.