Accounting treatment of Mobile phones

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22 July 2010 If a business purchases mobile phones & sim card for use in its business, what is the accounting treatment for that? IS it treated as fixed assets

CA. Anoop Gadia

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22 July 2010 Mobile are fixed assets and dep. is 15%

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22 July 2010 How would you treat a sim card in that case? Will it be treated as part of fixed asset?

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CA Ravi Sisodia

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22 July 2010 without sim card mobile is useless therefore sim is also treated as fixed assets.

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22 July 2010 Thanks for your reply. One more thing if the business changes its sim card in the later years, then what will be the treatment?

Sunil Kr. Sanganeria

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22 July 2010 Since the value of SIM card is small, you can charge to revenue account

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CA Ravi Sisodia

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22 July 2010 recharge charges should be treated as revenue expenditure.

Nirpendra Singh

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22 July 2010 Treat to both as a Fixed assets & charge depreciation @ 15% p.a. subject to use whether it is more than 180 days or less.

or u can charge sim card to revenue a/c also.

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