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Hit your CapEx target without the audit anxiety.

Built for CFO · Finance Director

Teams default to OpEx because the rules are too complicated to remember. Capitalisable work goes uncapitalised, the CFO finds out at close, and someone gets a Sally email.

Flowstate classifies every piece of effort against ASC 350-40 and FRS 102, splits creation from maintenance automatically, and stops the backdated reclassification scramble.

Capitalisation ledger · this quarter
ASC 350-40 · FRS 102
Total engineering effort
£4.82M$6.21M
Q2 2026
Capitalised
£2.94M$3.78M
61% capitalisation rate ↑
Expensed
£1.88M$2.43M
Maintenance · support
Project CapEx OpEx Conf.
Customer portal — v3 launch
New-feature creation · ASC 350-40 application development stage
£612k$789k £42k$54k 94%
Payments platform — resiliency
Mixed: significant rewrite (CapEx) + ongoing maintenance (OpEx)
£287k$370k £198k$255k 88%
Internal data warehouse migration
Flagged: rules ambiguous — manual review queued
£94k$121k £71k$92k 62%
Incident response · bug fixes
Post-launch maintenance · expensed by default
£412k$531k 98%
Every classification has a written rationale. Your auditor will ask — you’ll have the answer. Live since 1 April · no Q-end scramble

The rules just changed. Most companies haven’t.

ASC 350-40 was redrawn in September 2025. The capitalisation question is no longer about development stages — it’s about whether your effort tracking is precise enough to support a defensible split.

ASU 2025-06
FASB rewrote ASC 350-40 in September 2025

All references to “development stages” are gone. Two new criteria: management authorisation, and probable completion. Effective for annual periods after Dec 15, 2027 — early adoption permitted.

FASB, Accounting Standards Update 2025-06 (PDF) →
Precision tax
Most CFOs under- or over-capitalise

“Many companies fail to allocate engineer hours with sufficient precision, leading to either undercapitalization or overcapitalization.” The new principles-based regime makes that gap more visible, not less.

CFO commentary on ASC 350-40 reform, 2025 →
Continuous
Quarter-end reclass is the wrong rhythm

Auditors increasingly expect contemporaneous evidence — not a backdated allocation built in March. Flowstate captures the classification at the moment the effort happens.

KPMG, FASB final ASU on software cost accounting →

Stop reclassifying at close.

Book a demo. We’ll show your capitalisation rate, your splits, and the rationale your auditor will accept — running continuously on your data.