Revenue expenditures: a. Are costs that do not materially increase a plant asset’s life or capabilities.
b. Are known as balance sheet expenditures because they relate to plant assets.
c. Extend the asset's useful life. Substantially benefit future periods.
d. Are debited to asset accounts when incurred.

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?