Requirements to amortize unfunded pension liabilities may be relatively flexible obligations that can be smoothed over time, while the POB is an inflexible debt with required annual payments.And of course, regular readers will know that financial economists regard pensions as bond-like obligations.
And if you're going to spend a lot of money on advertising, they realized, you need to be in more theatres to amortize the cost.
NBC News is likelier to assign full-time coverage of a big story, say, if it can amortize the cost across both its cable and its broadcast operations.
This will amortize your Dental/Disability Combo Package.
Lanier said he and a fellow rider, for instance, debated the merits of how to amortize the cost of their personal seat licenses and whether to use the straight-line method or the double declining balance depreciation method.
The only way they could keep their school fees low, then, was to amortize this investment over large numbers of schools with large numbers of students — at least 50 per class.
The bonds, which were privately placed with investors and fully amortize over seven years, came with a rate of under 5 percent, well below the 8 to 12 percent that banks would normally charge borrowers for this type of expenditure, Mr. Podos said.
"They take a fraction of your assets, amortize it and apply it as income," Mr. Prom said.
Small businesses would still be able to deduct or amortize payrolls and investments.
If lawmakers want to help all businesses invest more here, they should embrace the administration's call to let companies immediately write off the entire cost of their investments in facilities and equipment, rather than gradually amortize them.
"There's only so much that two people can order, so we thought we might amortize the experience by having friends with us," Mr. Pauker, 34, said one recent Sunday afternoon as he and Mr. Calleo, 41, scouted Peruvian restaurants in Queens for their dinner in August.
