depreciation expenses

Big new depreciation expenses prevent this, because they reduce a company's reported profit.

"The second was increased depreciation expenses, which are, of course, ongoing.

Add back what it has taken in depreciation expenses and accounts payable.

Increased depreciation expenses can be cited by phone companies to seek higher prices, or to prevent rate cuts.

They are written off against profits over their anticipated life by charging depreciation expenses (with exception of land assets).

Profits will suffer as depreciation expenses rise.

In the technology slump, companies stopped buying, and now the depreciation expenses from earlier spending are way down, as the equipment is at least three years old.

One hint: while the rest of its expenses were rising in line with sales growth, depreciation expenses dropped by $2 million.

But those gains were offset by higher depreciation expenses, largely related to the new plant, and by rising newsprint costs.

Priority 1 investments: investments that shall be released immediately after respective cash (and income to cover additional depreciation expenses) is available.

These ratios will be used to provide the respective automated calculations, e.g. to automatically calculate the depreciation expenses for the capital expenditures.

Macy said its profits for the quarter, before interest, taxes and depreciation expenses, rose by 20.9 percent, to $254 million, from $210 million a year earlier.

The BellSouth Corporation said its 1987 results reflected the one-time expenses of an early retirement program, as well as continuing increased depreciation expenses.

For example, the complaint says, the company avoided depreciation expenses for its garbage trucks by extending their estimated life while simultaneously making unsupported increases in their salvage value.

With sales down, the company's operating cash flow, excluding depreciation expenses as well as capital spending and interest, came to just $78.4 million in the quarter, the lowest since the buyout.

The intent of those rules is to make it more difficult for companies to reduce the values of large assets, which would allow them to report higher earnings in the future by reducing depreciation expenses.

Robert Willens, a tax analyst at Lehman Brothers, said that the tax was generally limited to companies in capital intensive industries that reduce their tax bills by taking heavy depreciation expenses.

And if those rates of return had also reflected the benefits the phone companies received from lower interest on their capital costs and depreciation expenses, their rates would have been another $1 billion less, the report said.

Consumers may already be benefiting from the fact that wholesalers cut roughly $300 from the cost of each sale they make via the Internet, savings that are mainly attributable to lower transportation costs and depreciation expenses.

The company was accused of shipping unordered merchandise and recording it as sales, using artificially low depreciation expenses to inflate income and recording as revenue sales of products made to its own salespeople.

The A.M.T. calculations require individuals to increase their regular adjusted gross income by certain tax preference items like depreciation expenses, the bargain element of incentive stock options and state and local taxes and decrease it by certain allowable deductions.

The company cited the weak economy, excess production capacity that created the poor market for paper, deterioration of the wood products market reflecting rising log and wood chip prices, and higher interest rates and depreciation expenses because of a $2 billion plant modernization campaign.