A manufacturing unit is seeking clarification on how to account for expenses related to a foreign technician who performed machinery repairs. The query asks whether flight charges, accommodation, and food costs should be capitalised as part of the asset or treated as revenue expenditure under repair and maintenance. The consensus suggests treating these costs as revenue expenditure.
I have been working for a manufacturing unit, a month back a machinery had undergone repair work, for this we had given this service to a foreign technician from whom we bought this machinery.
We had incurred to and fro flight charges, accommodation and food apart of his service charges.
Kindly advice whether to capitalize these flight, accommodation and food charges to the asset or we can show under revenue expenditure under repair and maintenance.