beancounters are not in charge of the direction of the company.
In a lot of cases, it makes a ton of sense to go for capex vs opex.
My old employer had a strategy which basically boiled down to owning everything inside this company expect for the coffee machines and cleaning crew.
His reason being? This made it possible to run on very thight margins when the economy takes a downturn without having to scramble for money because of leased/loaned equipment etc.
In the 2008 crisis, this is how he stayed afloat with his company, and even made a pretty profit during a time of crisis too.
If they're publicly traded, no one's going to give Bob's Consolidated Widgets a 65x PE or 2x+ PEG ratio, even if they have the best IT strategy in their market.
Curious, can you explain why? In my experience (just one company where I had some interaction with accounting), there was a preference toward CAPEX. The costs of building a product, ie software development, was prefered over OPEX, in this case, analytics. Since I was doing both development and analytics, they preferred me to account part of my time as CAPEX. Not sure if this is normal but for context it was a non/pre-public company.
OPEX is just an expense in the current fiscal year. CAPEX depreciates over N years. This alone means that a one-time payment is much simpler on the books.
I don't think your salary counts as CAPEX, it's a normal monthly expense for the company.
My old employer had a strategy which basically boiled down to owning everything inside this company expect for the coffee machines and cleaning crew. His reason being? This made it possible to run on very thight margins when the economy takes a downturn without having to scramble for money because of leased/loaned equipment etc.
In the 2008 crisis, this is how he stayed afloat with his company, and even made a pretty profit during a time of crisis too.