controllable expenses

Cash Distributions - include all of your fixed and controllable expenses.

As for 1991, he said that the company would have to "learn to live on more reduced means" and that controllable expenses would be flat.

Those contracts are a major reason controllable expenses - essentially, the cost of employees and contractors - are rising about 7 percent this fiscal year, to $18.9 billion from $17.7 billion.

Controllable Expenses - This includes salaries and payroll expenses (benefits, etc.), legal and accounting expenses, advertising and marketing expenses, auto expenses, office supplies, utilities, repair and maintenance, and other outside services.

Mobil, which has cut its payroll by more than 10,000 since 1991, said in October that it was studying ways to reduce its support-staff payroll, which it said represented about $2.5 billion in "cash controllable expenses."

Deregulation Seen as Factor "F.A.A. did not fully recognize that a fiercely competitive, deregulated environment highlights aircraft maintenance and other safety-related activities as controllable expenses that directly affect an airline's financial health," the report said.