USA Capitalize or Expense Recruiting Fees

[lindy]

Should recruiting fees be capitalized or expensed? If capitalized, what is the period of amortization?

 

[Steve-LevelUp]

They should be expensed. There is no fixed lifetime for recruitment fees and no way to accurately ascertain the spread of the expenses. The person hired could leave within 6 months.

 

[amandapage]

They ought to be discounted. There is no proper lifetime for recruitment charges and no real way to precisely learn the spread of the costs. The individual recruited could leave inside a half year.