Upgrades or renovations of facilities: Upgrades or renovations are included
when such projects add value to or improve the facilities or extend their
useful lives. It is difficult sometimes to differentiate between major expenditures
to maintain facilities and capital renovation projects. If structural
or mechanical change is involved, an expensive renovation project is often
classified as a capital project and the expenditures for it are capitalized.
The expenditures for the project are presumed to add value to or extend
the useful life of the project being renovated. If there is no structural or
mechanical change—for example, complete repainting of a facility
such a project is usually classified as ordinary maintenance even though
the project is expensive.