capital expenditure vs operational expenditure
capital expenditure
Definitions
noun
- the cost of long-term improvements
Examples
Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period.
Also, both operating expenditure and the operating consequences of capital expenditure appear together in the funds.
In addition, government cannot finance long-lived public capital expenditures with borrowing.
