The phrase "a fixed expense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to costs that do not change regardless of the level of goods or services produced.
Example: "Rent is considered a fixed expense because it remains the same each month, regardless of our sales performance."
Alternatives: "a constant cost" or "a non-variable expense".
The reason given, Ho recalls, was that the department was "a fixed expense that detracted from shareholder value". Translation: The firm decided it could make more money elsewhere.
"Debt is a fixed expense," explains David Elias, president and chief investment officer at Elias Asset Management, "so when revenues take a hit, you've got a problem".
Besides the amount selected for the bribe, the firm must incur a fixed expense of 2 experimental currency units (ECU) that represents the initial approach to the public official (this is a sunk cost, because the firm must pay it, whether the public official accepts the bribe or not).
The owner/operator will have a base salary of $3,000/mo and that will be a fixed expense.
Little magazines need to make money from circulation, and because the only known way to attract and retain subscribers is through direct mail solicitation, which is costly -- at least $50 per new subscriber -- they are stuck with a big, inescapable fixed expense.
"We don't have any fixed expenses," noted Robert J. Gaffney, the Suffolk County executive.
Once you have quantified the "fixed expense" of self-care, subtract it from twenty-four hours to come up with your daily time budget.
Our only true fixed expense is website hosting.
The biggest fixed expense in performing forward genetics is the "cage costs" associated with breeding.
Please note that specific variable and fixed expense categories have intentionally been left blank as these expenses are already figured into our "cost-per-horse" expense.
Know when every fixed expense is due.
