# R&D Cost Capitalization Solutions | LinearB - Optimize Engineering Spend

> Learn how to effectively capitalize software development costs, improve financial reporting, and maximize budget efficiency with LinearB's solutions for R&D cost capitalization.

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Features

# Cost Capitalization

Are you spending hours on financial reporting?

Reallocate time back to the team with automated R&D Cost Capitalization reporting, programmed work categorization, and report scope.

[Book a demo](https://linearb.io/book-a-demo)
[Start free trial](https://linearb.io/start-free-trial)

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## Automate away your financial reporting

### Eliminate manual reporting

Streamline financial workflows and automate reporting of software development efforts for engineering teams.

### Set your reporting cadence

Automate the delivery of your report to land in your inbox every month, quarter or annually. 

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## Auto-categorize investment categories

### Customize your scope

Automate or use self-service categorization of capitalizable versus non-capitalizable R&D costs by issue type, epic, initiative or custom field

### Expedite the details

View capitalizable work as monthly aggregates or filtered by individual developer or line item based on their GitHub contributions and issue tracker activity.

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