MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITURE Examples of notes to accounts relating to miscellaneous expenditure are given below : 1. Preliminary and Share issue expenses have been written off proportionate to their respective periods. 2. Preliminary expenditure on new industrial units of the nature specified in Section 35D(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is to be amortised over ten years commencing from the year in which the new industrial unit commences production. 3.(a) "Share issue expenses are proposed to be written off over a period of 10 years and accordingly 1/10th of the said expenditure has been written off". (b) "Development Expenditure is proposed to be written off over a period of 5 years and accordingly 1/5th of the said expenditure has been written off". 4. Preliminary expenses will be written off in installments after commencement of commercial production. 5. Miscellaneous Expenditure Rs. _________ appearing in the Balance Sheet represents expenses in connection with Debenture Issue. These expenses do not include stamp duty on registration of Trust Deed which has not yet been executed. 6. The Company has during the year written off the entire balance amount of Preliminary, Pre-incorporation & Share Issue Expenses and market Development Expenses against the practice of writing off 1/10th and 1/5th amount respectively of such expenses every year in earlier years. As a result, profit for the year is lower by Rs. ________. *******