What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / venu

This is the expenses,which incurred for Formation and flow
of the comany..The expenses can include the Cost of
producing Procpectus,issuing shares and advertising
expenses..

Note:-What ever i gave example that is belong to shares,
These can be belong to assets also....

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / narendra kumar

Priliminary expances are kind of huge expences(Ex.- project appraisal,
documentation, legal charges,cunsultancy fees etc.) which occured before the
business started functing. These expences are for the standing of business unit
and off course, the benefit of which will be ripe continuously in future. It has a
special nature of an asset in financial statements and as per prudent accounting
principal should be write off in P&L A/c in a defferd way over the years.

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / vijay

Preliminary expenses are those expenses which are paid
before starting of a business unit

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / g. shanker

Preliminary expenses, which incurred for before
commencement of business. For setting up of any undertaking
or business (Preparation of feasibility report, project
report or for conducting market survey or any other survey
or engineering services relating to the business and Legal
charges for drafting any agreement for setting up or for
conduct of any business).
For Income tax purpose the following is the permissibe
expernditure.
(a)In case of company, 5% of Cost of Project or Capital
employeed.
(b)In case of any other business, 5% of the Cost of Project.
It will be allowed as deduction in 5 equal installments.

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / ankit

This is the expenses, which incurred for Formation and flow
of the comany.The expenses can include the Cost of
producing Prospectus, issuing shares and advertising
expenses.

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / ashwni kumar swain

Preliminary expenses which those exepenses during at the
time of formation of a new company such as preparation of
feasibility report, survey exp., preparation of memorandum
and Articules of Association, legal fees, advertisement
exp. etc.

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / mohd.nadeem ansari

prelimnary expences is a expences which spend before the
business start (example,legal exp.,office making exp.)

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / ramesh rajani

Preliminary expenses are the expense mhich are paid in the
processing of company formulation. in other world they are
paid for bringing the company into existance.
As these expenses
1)are huge in amount,
2)are nonrecurring and
3)are not related with the day-today opretions
therefore it is not fair to treat it as revenue
expenditure.The total amount paid for such expenses are
first capitalised and shown in the balance sheet.thereafter
from this some portion is written off each year.

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / shradha singh

I Dont Know anything about Peliminary expenses

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What is the treatment for PRELIMINARY EXPENSES?..

Answer / vikash didwania

If any preliminary expenditure incured for those activities
which are mentioned in A.S 26 then the entire expenditure
should be charged to P & L and if it incured in respect of
A.S 10 then it should be capitalised.

Apart from these only share issue expenditure should be
amortised in P & L account over the period of 5 year. The
term deferred revenue expenditure concept is no more exist.

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