Compared to firms that expense costs, firms that capitalize expenses will have:
A.
A. lower income variablity. |
B.
B. lower cash flow from operations. |
C.
C. higher leverage ratios. |
参考答案:A
解析:Firms that capitalize expenses have less variability of net income because the capitalized expense becomes an asset that is depreciated over years instead of all at once which happens when costs are expensed. Capitalizing expenses will result in higher cash flows from operations because capitalizing an expense becomes an investing cash flow instead of an operating cash flow which occurs when expenditures are expensed. Firms that capitalize expenses have lower leverage ratios because assets and equity are increased so any leverage ratio that have assets and equity in the denominator will decrease.