Sentence examples for calculating earnings from inspiring English sources

Though the write-off will affect net income, it is still an extraordinary non-cash charge that analysts will essentially ignore when calculating earnings multiples.

More than in any other sector, high-tech firms are calculating earnings not just by applying GAAP, but by using homemade formulas to exclude "special expenses"—a method that invariably makes the numbers look a lot better.On February 4th, for example, Priceline.com, an online travel agency, reported a pro-forma net income of $3.3m, a sum that converted under GAAP rules into a loss of $1.3m.

The wacky accounting that goes into calculating earnings per share lets REIT sponsors gull investors.

Company-based data retrieved from employers' personnel files is considered a golden standard, mainly because these data are also used for calculating earnings [ 5- 8].

Calculating earnings by market cap (the same way that the S&P 500 Index is calculated), Professor Siegel estimates that the trailing P/E-ratios are 11 times reported earnings (versus S&P's 53.3) and 10 times operating earnings (versus 16).

Had Microsoft considered its option grants an employee expense, Ms. McConnell calculated, earnings would have been sharply lower in all three years.

G.E. competitors like AOL Time Warner and Viacom have been able to spend great sums on acquisitions more readily because they calculate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- a methodology called Ebitda (pronounced EE-bih-da).

Instead, firms list a "current tax provision" number that is an accountant's estimate used to calculate earnings but that is not meant to equal the size of the company's U.S. federal tax bill.

Caterpillar, for example, a company with $52 billion in sales, set a target of just $20 million annual operating profit after capital charge, an obscure measure that calculates earnings after certain costs, for executives to get their payouts.

With inflation falling, the ONS said the squeeze on living standards that had dampened consumer spending over the past year had come to an end if bonuses were included in the yardstick used to calculate earnings.

For Facebook, it would have an additional benefit: In effect, it is like a stock buyback, reducing the number of total shares on the public market, "thereby reducing our shares outstanding used to calculate earnings per share," the filing said.