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At a prior company the head of R&D and I disagreed with an external auditor about capitalization of a $1.2M software development project. The auditor wanted immediate expensing; the R&D leader argued for capitalization based on technical feasibility. I scheduled a 90-minute meeting with the auditor, R&D lead, and our controller, and came prepared with the project plan, milestones, time tracking reports showing 6 full-time equivalents over 10 months, and our capitalization policy tied to ASC 350 criteria. I walked through each criterion, highlighted testable deliverables, and proposed a compromise: capitalize development costs after the documented milestone completed and expense pre-feasibility spend. We documented the position, adjusted prior-year footnotes, and avoided a $0.9M misstatement while preserving audit relationship.
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