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Engineering + Finance Alignment: Automate R&D Capitalization Reporting

R&D Cost Capitalization is a mandatory accounting practice where R&D costs are treated as investments instead of expenses (i.e. the cost of developing a particular release of your software). This benefits your company in a number of financial ways which means it is a commonly audited report, so it must be highly accurate. 

This data is not easily come by in an accurate way and requires tedious time tracking and manual reporting for both engineering managers and finance. 

On this webinar as we discuss:

  • What is R&D Capitalization and why should engineering leaders care. 
  • What Finance needs from engineering 
  • Current approaches and best practices to capture the needed data.
  • Benefits to automating the reporting process and monitoring over time. 
Scott Buxton

Scott Buxton

Former Finance Leader at DataDog and GitHub
Miika Groden

Miika Groden

Director of Revenue Operations at Datadog
Hersh Tapadia

Hersh Tapadia

CEO & Co-Founder, Allstacks