Hospital beds as plant asset or inventory

[irananed]

For a hospital, should the hospital beds be treated as Plant asset or Inventory or both?

[Schuaeb]

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<br />For a hospital, should the hospital beds be treated as Plant asset or Inventory or both?
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Treated as both that I don't think can be the case. Beds for a hospital should be treated as Property, plant & equip provided they meet the capitalization criteria, in this case the flow of economic benefits for more than one year. Normally the beds have a useful life of more than one year and they are capitalized unless are kept for trading purpose.

Hopefully it clarifies your query.

Shoaib