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T509 Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

expense vs. expenditure

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02br 02br 00*'expenditure' 02br 02br 00also means01u 00' the amount of money'02u 00 but is often used for something quite important or a quite large budget, and often public such as' public/military/eduaction expenditure'. 0-

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  • 02br 02br 00*'expenditure' 02br 02br 00also means01u 00' the amount of money'02u 00 but is often used for something quite important or a quite large budget, and often public such as' public/military/eduaction expenditure'.
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0Hi ^_^.As far as I know,02br
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hi,

The difference between expense and expenditure is when some amount of money inccured benefit derived from incurring a expenditure MAY not be limited to the period concerned where as the benefits derived from a expense are consumed in the same period.

For example..... the operating expenses are consumable within a period of fiscal year... whereas when we incurred sum for purc
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expense is the amount of money paid for goods or services like electricy bills
expenditure amout paid by company to increase its assets
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There is no so much differ these 2 expences according to US accountiong system, but in Great British says a expence wich accour in whole than it called expence bt when it not occour in whole its expanditure

e.g.

u bought a bus ticket and in the way the ticket is your expanditure.......

when you reached on destination the amount of ticket is your expence..........
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In accounting terminology, there is one difference between Expense and Expenditure. The Expense is the expired portion of an Expenditure. If you want more clarification, jus think the concept with one example. All the other things remains same. We often use Expense and Expenditure simultaneously. But only this slight difference is there.

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Krishna
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