The phrase "asset charges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial or accounting contexts to refer to costs or fees associated with assets.
Example: "The company incurred significant asset charges due to the depreciation of its equipment."
Alternatives: "asset fees" or "asset costs".
Tyson recorded $19 million in charges in its third quarter, which ended June 28, with $4 million related to closing the plant and $15 million in impaired asset charges, the filing said.
The drop in net income in fiscal 2005 includes goodwill and asset charges of $53.1 million.
That's on top of "trailer" commissions of up to 1.4% of assets annually for as long as the plan exists and "asset charges" of up to 4%.
The oldest fund in this group, Van Eck Global Hard Assets, charges a towering 1.85% of assets annually for expenses.
But other large-capitalization funds with more than $1 billion in assets charge 1.4percentt of assets, on average, according to Morningstar.
Only 4% of stock funds, holding 14% of fund assets, charge incentive fees, Lipper reports.
Excluding items like asset impairment charges linked to the Disney exit, the company earned $20.5 million, or 70 cents a share.
"The sharp deterioration in commodity prices in the second half of the year has led us to recognise significant asset impairment charges in the fourth quarter," said the group's interim executive chairman Andrew Gould.
Zurich, the biggest insurance company in Switzerland, said the loss would result from the terrorist attacks in the United States, asset impairment charges, lower investment income, higher than expected nonlife insurance claims and the deterioration in the results of discontinued operations.
Also, in the fourth quarter of 2008, we recognized $1.09 billion in asset impairment charges related primarily to our investments in AOL and Clearwire.
The facts concerning the apparently irregular payments for acquisitions exposed in an article in the Japanese financial magazine FACTA had come to Woodford's attention and which resulted in very significant asset impairment charges in the company's accounts.
