Difference between expenditure and expense?

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / guest

Expense are MONIES expended on items on which no value
remains eg expenses on wages and salaries, etc while
expenditures are monies used for items of which some values
remains eg purchase of assets especiaaly.

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / ayan sarkar

EXPENSE is a single item cost....& EXPENDITURE is the sum
of all expense in an unit time.

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / rakesh kumar prasad

an expenditure is a payment for a benefit
received.expenditure is incurred to acquired assets and
amount spent to acquire those assets.

examples:-
cost of plant and machinery
depreciation on plant and machinery
rent
insurance, etc.

on the other hand expense is the amount spent in order to
produce and sell the good and services which produce the
revenue.

examples:-
salaries
wages, etc.

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / vasudevan

expense tells about cost of item
expentiture tells total amount of expense
for example
the cost of car engine is expense
total amount of car is expenditure

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / subikssha

Expenses is the term used for
Purchase of single product which is shown in p&l a/c but expenditure is term used for purchase of assets or stocks in units

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Difference between expenditure and expense?..

Answer / csshailendra

Expences are generally classified into two categaries
1:Capital , 2: Revenue.
Expences of revenue nature are generally of small amounts
and are charged to the P/L A/C.Whereas the Capital
Expenditure are huge in amounts and are usually
ammortizedand are shown in the B/s.

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