Design Service

Dear sir

Design Service Expenses is it Direct expenses or indirect expenses?
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This discussion clarifies whether design service expenses are considered direct or indirect costs. Generally, research and design costs that aren't directly tied to a specific capitalised asset are treated as indirect expenses and written off. However, if these design services directly lead to the production of an item, such as a wallet going into production, then the costs can be capitalised as direct costs.

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It’s a research cost, not capitalised which means not directly attributable to the asset, so naturally it’s a indirect cost and written off.

If the same design services are carried forward into production, eg, someone designed a wallet and put into production, then and only then it’s capitalised, which means direct costs. Hope this simplifies your query.

just design only - indirect cost

design and production- direct costs

Good reply by Yasaswi

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