Capitalization is the practice of converting costs into assets with the intent of depreciating the cost over time. Capital refers to the cash value of anything a business or individual owns that it ...

The treatment of enterprise applications as capital assets is a relic of the industrial-age IT operating model. In the digital age, capitalization of the application development cost can be wasteful ...

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