The phrase "a return of expenditures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the reimbursement or recovery of costs incurred.
Example: "The company is expecting a return of expenditures from the recent project investments."
Alternatives: "reimbursement of costs" or "recovery of expenses."
According to Drutman, with whom I exchanged a number of e-mails, a study in The Journal of Law and Politics, "Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures," estimated that "companies that lobbied on the [jobs] bill got a return of 22,000 percent on their investment, $220 in benefits for every $1 spent on lobbying".
Determining the return on a sports sponsorship or promotion has become increasingly important, in part because of rising pressure to show a return on marketing expenditures.
One of the new commissioners, former U.S. Rep. Mel Levine, asked the department to produce records explaining a range of expenditures listed on the nonprofits' publicly available tax returns, which offer only summaries of broad categories of spending.
The facility itself becomes a series of expenditures".
A return to balance requires reducing expenditure over the medium term and reviewing revenue in a fair and equitable way.
The Return on Investment of expenditures on K-12 and post-secondary education, while not as high, is unmatched by the ROI in most other areas or by the return on upper-income tax cuts.
Mrs. Arroyo's predecessor, the ousted President Joseph E. Estrada, marked a return to profligacy, with government revenues falling far behind expenditures.
A return to the old system where the number of days to be counted against a sentence was calculated administratively, would save a great deal of wasteful expenditure.
P10 wells are expected to generate a pre-tax return of 52 to 25% for $7.5 to $10 million capital expenditures and post-tax returns of 40 to 20%.
"A lot of expenditure is just not visible," he said.
