Sentence examples for be amortized against from inspiring English sources
verb
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
Doing its deals for cash generates goodwill that must be amortized against earnings.
The accounting monks of Norwalk, Conn., have since decreed that goodwill never again has to be amortized against earnings.
If you keep honest books (because LVMH's ADRs are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, it must follow U.S. accounting principles in its filings with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission), much of that goodwill must be amortized against earnings over many years.
(Under the current tax code, investments are amortized against tax over a period of three to thirty years).
Plus, the R&D costs of those components can be amortized not just against iPhones, but all other devices using the technology as well.
Q. Historically, good will had to be amortized, or written off quarterly as a charge against earnings.
The $80 premium will be amortized evenly for 10 years, for an annual amortization of (80 / 10) or $8.
Under present accounting standards, goodwill must be amortized.
The remaining $63 million will be amortized over about five years.
The siphons and the soda maker would be amortized much more quickly.
Of course, this is a one-time cost that can be amortized over five to 10 years.
