In particular, the government's debt agreements with China involve a significant and increasing amount of production, although recently those agreements were restructured, allowing for a grace period with no capital amortization.
The persistent, underlying snags are more esoteric: budgetary profiles, launch indemnity, capital amortization, and all sorts of boring administrivia.
Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, less capital expenditures, grew to $503 million from $320 million since 2010, according to slides accompanying a presentation on Wednesday.
It's easily the most profitable company on the planet: This year, after amortization of capital expenses, it should net upwards of $250 billion on $300 billion in revenue.
They must generate ample free cash flow (net income plus depreciation and amortization, minus capital spending) but sell near book value.
While results are closely held, Aramco stands to net, after amortization of capital costs, roughly $200 billion a year on revenue in excess of $350 billion.
Or that Merck likely will earn $2 billion in free cash flow (net income plus depreciation and amortization, minus capital spending and dividends) this year, down slightly from $2.2 billion in 2004.
According to documents filed with a public stadium authority, which owns the Mariners' stadium, last year the team's operating income (in the sense of earnings plus depreciation and amortization, minus capital improvements) was $10.8 million.
Above and beyond its fat 54-cent dividend (yielding 2.7%), Sara Lee this year has an extra 77 cents a share of loose change in the sense of net income plus depreciation and amortization less capital expenditures and dividends.
The ratios compare sales to receivables; sales to earnings; operating income to long-term debt; cost of goods sold to inventory; depreciation and amortization to capital expenditures; and cash flow from operations (less any tax savings from stock options) to earnings.
Using linear amortization method, capital costs for buildings, motorcycles, cars and cold chain materials were estimated by dividing their respective cost by the useful life time.
