Recurrent expenditure – all payments other than for capital assets, including on goods and services, (wages and salaries, employer contributions), interest payments, subsidies and transfers.
Capital expenditure – payments for acquisition of fixed capital assets, stock, land or intangible assets.
A capital budgeting decision is typically a go or no-go decision on a product, service, facility, or activity of the firm.
That is, we either accept the business proposal or we reject it. 2.
A capital budgeting decision will require sound estimates of the timing and amount of cash flow for the proposal.