The phrase "acquisition expenses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial or business contexts to refer to the costs associated with acquiring assets, companies, or resources.
Example: "The company's acquisition expenses increased significantly this quarter due to several new investments."
Alternatives: "purchase costs" or "acquisition costs".
Earnings will rise to $1.25 to $1.35 a share, excluding acquisition expenses, the company said.
Not counting acquisition expenses and other costs, Oracle said it would have earned 82 cents a share.
With special items like acquisition expenses excluded, Sun said it earned a profit of $134 million, or 4 cents a share.
Sybase said yesterday that first-quarter profit was 16 cents to 20 cents a share, excluding acquisition expenses and other costs.
It is essentially operating profit minus the company's large online marketing and acquisition expenses - a highly nonstandard approach that had many scratching their heads.
Student loans are typically marketed through colleges, but once students graduate, it is more difficult to efficiently identify potential customers, leading to higher "customer acquisition" expenses.
On a sales multiple of 3.5 this would suggest more than $20bn of acquisition expense, and with plenty of competition for attractive deals.
"As the volume of music we stream to listeners increases, our content acquisition expense will also increase, regardless of whether we are able to generate more revenue," the company warned in its latest filing.
"As the volume of music we stream to listeners increases, our content acquisition expense will also increase, regardless of whether we are able to generate more revenue," the company warned in its latest securities filing.
TechGiant might lose out a bit on the other side of that transaction, as it would be trading an immediate ordinary deduction for compensation for an acquisition expense that would likely be amortized over 15 years.
The company reports results using non-GAAP, so-called pro forma accounting that ignores stock compensation and acquisition expense that is producing a comprehensive loss.
