Where do restructuring costs go on income statement?
Regarding this, how are restructuring costs accounted for?
Restructuring charge is the cost which is incurred by the company whey they reorganize the operations of the business to improve the overall efficiency and longer-term profit. Restructuring charges are considered as non-operating charges as it is not considered under operating charges and is very infrequent.
In this regard, can restructuring costs be capitalized?
If the costs cannot be immediately deducted, they generally are required to be capitalized as an asset, although these capitalized costs often can be deducted over some period of time. Costs associated with a restructuring generally can only be immediately deducted if the proposed transaction is not completed.
Examples of non-operating expenses are:
- Interest expense.
- Derivatives expense.
- Lawsuit settlement expense.
- Loss on disposition of assets.
- Obsolete inventory charges.
- Restructuring expense.