to "expense"

[David Bergdahl]

Now that it's officially "tax season" there's a sense of the term that means
"list it as a whole amount for a deduction rather than a fractional
amount."  For instance, if a computer is bought for your home office, you
can 'expense' it all-at-once or depreciate the purchase over a fixed number
of years. (The IRS tells you how many years for each class of items).
-db

On Jan 4, 2008 8:15 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm not sure these all have to do with expense accounts. Some of them may
> relate to corporate accounting instead.
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> On Jan 4, 2008 8:00 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > Thanks, Mark. The examples you give could all also be replaced with
> > "put on expense account as," as in "put it on expense account as an
> > office expense" (as opposed to as a business development expense,
> > say), although I must admit "expense it as a company expense" seems a
> > touch redundant. Perhaps in these usages there's a sort of image of
> > its being entered into an expense account sheet -- i.e., that the act
> > of entering something on an expense account sheet is "expensing," and
> > one can speak of it generally or one can specify it -- some users
> > perhaps automatically thinking of it as something that must be
> > entered under a category, others not necessarily.
> >
> > And since it's not "dictionary English," neither side can claim the
> > other is using it wrong!
> >
> > James Harbeck.
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