Capital and Repair Expenditures - Actual 2010 - Form A2
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Introduction
Purpose
This survey collects data on capital and repair* expenditures in Canada. The information is used by Federal and Provincial governments and agencies, trade associations, universities and international organizations for policy development and as a measure of regional activity. *Organizations reporting in the preliminary actual, intentions were not asked for repair expenditures.
Additional information
Dollar Amounts and Percentages
- All dollar amounts reported should be rounded to THOUSANDS OF CANADIAN DOLLARS
(e.g., $6,555,444.00 should be rounded to $6,555);
- Percentages should be rounded (e.g., 37%, 76%, 94%);
- Your best estimates are acceptable when precise figures are not available;
- Pre-printed cell numbers 055 to 904 are for identification purposes only.
Authority
Collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19. Completion of this questionnaire is a legal requirement under this Act. Confidential when completed.
Confidentiality
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from publishing any statistics which would divulge information obtained from this survey that relates to any identifiable business. The data reported on this questionnaire will be treated in strict confidence. The confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act are not affected by either the Access to Information Act or any other legislation.
Data-sharing agreements
Statistics Canada has entered into agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies for the sharing of data. The data are kept confidential and used for statistical purposes only. Your responses are not shared with Canada Revenue Agency.
To avoid duplicating survey activity, Statistics Canada has entered into the following data sharing agreements concerning this Survey.
Under section 11 of the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada has entered into data sharing agreements with the statistical bureaus of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon. Statistics Canada only enters into section 11 agreements with provincial statistical agencies which have statistic acts similar to the federal act. These agencies have the authority to collect this information and the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of information as the federal Statistics Act.
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Return procedures
Please mail the completed questionnaire to Investment and Capital Stock Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6, or by Facsimile: (613) 951-0196 or toll free at 1 800 606-5393.
Assistance
Instructions, definitions and examples can be found in the reporting guide. Reading these before completion can save you both time and effort in filling out this questionnaire. For additional information, please call us at (613) 951-9815, toll free at 1 800 345-2294 or by e-mail at Invest@statcan.gc.ca.
Definitions
What are Capital Expenditures?
Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others.
Include:
- Cost of all new buildings, engineering, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
- Modifications, acquisitions and major renovations
- Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
- Subsidies
- Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
- Work done by own labour force
- Acquisitions to work in progress
How to Treat Leases
Include assets acquired for lease to others, either as a capital, financial or as an operating lease
Exclude assets acquired as a lessee through either a capital, financial or an operating lease from others
Information for Government Departments
The following applies to government departments only:
- Include all capital expenditures without taking into account the capitalization threshold of your department;
- Grants and/or subsidies to outside entities (e.g., municipalities, agencies, institutions or businesses) are not to be included;
- Departments are requested to exclude from reported figures budgetary items pertaining to any departmental agency and proprietary crown corporation as they are surveyed separately;
- Federal departments are to report expenditures paid for by the department, regardless of which department awarded the contract;
- Provincial departments are to include any capital expenditures on construction (exclude outlays for land) or machinery and equipment, for use in Canada, financed from revolving funds, loans attached to revolving funds, other loans, the Consolidated Revenue Fund or special accounts.
Pre-printed information
Please correct pre-printed label information, if necessary;
- a: Legal Name
- b: Business Name
- c: Location
- d: Principal Activity
- e: Type of Ownership*
- f: Mail Contact Name
- g: Title
- h: Mail Address
- i: Telephone Number (ext)
- j: Fax Number
- k: E-Mail
Reporting Period Information
For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the FINAL DAY occurs on or between April 1(YYYY)* and March 31 (YYYY)*
Please indicate below the period covered by this report*
- 1: from (YYYYMM) to (YYYYMM)
Respondent identification
Person completing this questionnaire;
- a: First Name and Last Name
- b: Title
- c: Telephone Number, Ext
- d: Fax Number
- e: Signature (I certify that the information contained herein is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge)
- f: Date completed (YYYY MM DD)
Section A: Capital and repair expenditures
ACTUAL (YYYY)*
Section A: Capital and repair expenditures
ACTUAL (YYYY)* - Question identifier:1.
Please report the following information for land;
- a: Total Cost
- b: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Total Selling Price
- c: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Gross Book Value
Section A: Capital and repair expenditures
ACTUAL (YYYY)* - Question identifier:2.
Please report the following information for residential construction;
- a: Total cost of new assets, renovation, retrofit (include used fixed assets if imported)
- b: Total cost of purchase of used Canadian assets
- c: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Total selling price
- d: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Gross book value
Section A: Capital and repair expenditures
ACTUAL (YYYY)* - Question identifier:3.
Please report the following information for Non-Residential Construction; (including for lease to others)
- a: Box A Total cost of new assets, renovation, retrofit (include used fixed assets if imported)
- b: Total cost of purchase of used Canadian assets
- c: Box B Total Capital Expenditures (responses a + b)
- d: Box E Total Cost of Non-Capital Repair and Maintenance Expenditures
- e: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Total selling price
- f: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Gross book value
Section A: Capital and repair expenditures
ACTUAL (YYYY)* - Question identifier:4.
Please report the following information for Machinery and Equipment (including for lease to others);
- a: Box C Total cost of new assets, renovation, retrofit (include used fixed assets if imported)
- b: Total cost of purchase of used Canadian assets
- c: Box D Total Capital Expenditures (responses a+b)
- d: Box F Total Cost of Non-Capital Repair and Maintenance Expenditures
- e: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Total selling price
- f: Disposals and Sales of Fixed Assets Gross book value
Additional Questions (thousands of dollars)
Additional Questions (thousands of dollars) - Question identifier:5.
Please report the total dollar value of your work in progress at year end for;
(These capital costs should be reported as Capital Expenditures in the year that they occurred.)
- a: Non-Residential Capital Construction
- b: Machinery and Equipment
Additional Questions (thousands of dollars) - Question identifier:6.
Please report the total expenditures of a capital nature that were charged to operating expenses during the reporting period for;
- a: Non-Residential Capital Construction
- b: Machinery and Equipment
Section B: Year over Year Variation of Capital Expenditures
Please check the reason(s) for significant variations in TOTAL capital expenditures compared to previous fiscal period.
Non-Residential Construction Box B
Increase (Please select)
- 1: Launched new major project (s)
- 2: Expanded existing project (s)
- 3: Project restarted/resumed
- 4: Increased cost of project (s)
- 9: Other (s) Please specify:
Decrease (please select)
- 5: Project(s) on hold (temporary or not)
- 6: Project(s) cancelled/abandoned
- 7: Project(s) completed
- 8: Reduced size of existing project(s)/Extended project(s) timeline
- 9: Other(s) Please specify:
Machinery and Equipment Box D
Increase (Please select)
- 1: Launched new major project (s)
- 2: Expanded existing project (s)
- 3: Project restarted/resumed
- 4: Increased cost of project (s)
- 9: Other (s) Please specify:
Decrease (please select)
- 5: Project(s) on hold (temporary or not)
- 6: Project(s) cancelled/abandoned
- 7: Project(s) completed
- 8: Reduced size of existing project(s)/Extended project(s) timeline
- 9: Other(s) Please specify:
Section C: Capacity Utilization (Manufacturing companies only)
Section C: Capacity Utilization (Manufacturing companies only) - Question identifier:1.
For (YYYY)*, this plant has been operating at what percentage of its capacity?
Capacity is defined as maximum production attainable under normal conditions. With regard to normal conditions, please follow the company's operating practices with respect to the use of production facilities, overtime, workshifts, holidays, etc. When any of your facilities permit the substitution of one product for another, use a product mix at capacity which is most similar to the composition of your (YYYY)* output.
Section C: Capacity Utilization (Manufacturing companies only) - Question identifier:2.
If this plant has been operating at less than capacity during (YYYY)* what is the principal reason? (Please select the appropriate choices)
- 1: Insufficient orders
- 2: Insufficient labour available
- 3: Lack of materials or supplies
- 4: Strike or work stoppage
- 5: Plant shutdown
- 6: Start-up of new operation
- 7: Sufficient inventory
- 8: Other reasons (please specify)
Section C: Capacity Utilization (Manufacturing companies only) - Question identifier:3.
If this plant has been operating at more than capacity during (YYYY)* , what is the principal reason? (Please select the appropriate choices)
- a: Stronger demand for product
- b: Insufficient inventory
- c: Other reasons (Please specify)
Section C: Capacity Utilization (Manufacturing companies only) - Question identifier:4.
Has the production capacity of this plant changed in (YYYY)* ?
(Change in resources e.g. plants, equipment, workforce, etc.)
Please select:
- a: Increased
- b: Decreased
- c: No change
Section D: Cost Components of Expenditures (YYYY)*
Section D: Cost Components of Expenditures (YYYY)* - Question identifier:1.
From Section A, transfer totals from box A - New Non-Residential Construction including renovation and retrofit;
For responses 3-6 (inclusive) report for Expenditures on own account work
- 1: Total
- 2: Value of work performed by contractors
- 3: Value of own-account work
- 4: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Salaries and wages
- 5: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Materials and supplies
- 6: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Other charges
Section D: Cost Components of Expenditures (YYYY)* - Question identifier:2.
From Section A, transfer totals from box E - Construction Repair and Maintenance expenses;
For responses 3-6 (inclusive) report for Expenditures on own account work
- 1: Total
- 2: Value of work performed by contractors
- 3: Value of own-account work
- 4: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Salaries and wages
- 5: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Materials and supplies
- 6: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Other charges
Section D: Cost Components of Expenditures (YYYY)* - Question identifier:3.
From Section A, transfer totals from box C - New Machinery and Equipment including renovation and retrofit;
For responses 3-6 (inclusive) report for Expenditures on own account work
- 1: Total
- 2: Value of work performed by contractors
- 3: Value of own-account work
- 4: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Salaries and wages
- 5: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Materials and supplies
- 6: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Other charges
Section D: Cost Components of Expenditures (YYYY)* - Question identifier:4.
From Section A, transfer total from box F - Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance Expenses;
For responses 3-6 (inclusive) report for Expenditures on own account work
- 1: Total
- 2: Value of work performed by contractors
- 3: Value of own-account work
- 4: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Salaries and wages
- 5: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Materials and supplies
- 6: Distribution of own account by category of costs - Other charges
*Please see reporting guide/questionnaire
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