Capitalize software costs straight from Jira — no time tracking
Delimetrics estimates your capitalizable engineering spend (CapEx vs OpEx) from the Jira work your teams already deliver — without asking a single engineer to fill in a timesheet.
The problem with capitalizing software in Jira
To capitalize software development costs you have to defend how much engineering effort went into capitalizable work. The usual answer is timesheets — and engineers hate them, the data is noisy, and finance still doesn't trust it. Most Jira capitalization add-ons simply bolt manual time logging onto tickets, which recreates the same problem.
How Delimetrics models it instead
Delimetrics allocates each team's cost across the tickets they actually delivered, weighted by the capitalizable share of that work. No manual logging required:
CapEx = period cost × (capitalizable tickets ÷ all delivered tickets). The remainder is OpEx. You configure each team's monthly cost once; Delimetrics scales it to the period you're viewing and splits it by the work that got done.
This is the ticket-count effort-allocation method auditors already expect — applied automatically, every month, with a clear trail back to the underlying Jira issues.
What you get
- CapEx vs OpEx split per team, per month, quarter or year
- Capitalization rate trend over time
- Drill-down to the delivered tickets behind every number
- Zero engineer time tracking — it reads the Jira data you already have
Honest about what this is: Delimetrics produces a defensible, modeled estimate to speed up and sanity-check capitalization. It is a strong first-pass and review tool — not a replacement for your formal accounting record. Always confirm treatment with your auditors.
Frequently asked questions
Can I capitalize software development costs from Jira without time tracking?
Yes. Delimetrics estimates capitalizable spend by allocating each team's cost across delivered Jira tickets, using the capitalizable share of that work — so you do not need engineers to fill in timesheets.
Is the capitalization figure audit-grade?
It is a defensible, modeled estimate using the ticket-count allocation method auditors expect for effort allocation. It is a strong first-pass and review tool, not a replacement for your accounting record.
How is CapEx calculated?
For each team, CapEx = period cost × (capitalizable tickets ÷ all delivered tickets). The remainder is treated as OpEx. Costs are configured per team and scaled to the period you view.
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