The phrase "avoiding expenses" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions taken to reduce costs or expenditures.
Example: "The company is focusing on avoiding expenses to improve its overall profitability."
Alternatives: "cutting costs" or "reducing expenditures".
The company keeps prices low by ordering from manufacturers and selling directly to consumers, avoiding expenses like brand licensing fees and retail markups along the way.
State officials claimed well over a billion dollars a year in savings by avoiding expenses in advance, but the federal investigators said such claims could not be verified.
By avoiding expenses lower-level employees must pay, executives will only worsen the cynicism that ordinary Americans and professional investors have about them, the critics say.
"We're trying to avoid expense reductions that would affect service," Mr. Mahoney said.
In March, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, a private group that sets accounting practices, proposed that companies, beginning in 2005, no longer be allowed to avoid expensing the cost of stock options.
What is more, the board is considering rules that in some cases would allow companies to avoid expensing good will, which would address the major concern over the elimination of pooling.
What he gives up in labor costs he more than makes up by avoiding transportation expenses and currency fluctuations.
"We were [at] a point where resigning would have been the easy choice, avoiding more expenses and tryouts before discovering the proper method," Vaquer says.
Since the 19th century, the Army Corps of Engineers has channelized the Mississippi River to improve navigation while avoiding the expense of dredging.
By avoiding the expense of high-end materials and fixtures, Eek can invest in his work force.
If implemented, shareholders would be able to put their own candidates on the firm's proxy materials, avoiding the expense and stark choices of a proxy fight.
