"expense category" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "Our company has many different expense categories in order to keep track of our finances."
Her father, David, an M.I.T. grad himself, gave her a credit card when she left for college, and for the first two years, he said, "the largest expense category by far was Home Depot".
Among the findings I found most interesting: Travelers at small and midsize companies on average spent significantly more in every expense category — hotels, airfares, dining and entertainment — than those at large corporations.
That could make it hard to persuade farmers who are now using notebooks or spreadsheets for record-keeping to add a new and recurring expense category, software-as-a-service, even if the amount is tiny when compared with annual income.
Instead of allocating fixed-dollar amounts to every line item, you establish a target percentage for each expense category.
Finally, the last column shows what percentage of the total of all available variable annuity sub-accounts fall into each total expense category.
It shouldn't comes as a shock to anyone that transportation represents the second largest expense category for Americans, behind only housing.
Service providers in all expense categories have reason to be optimistic.
The company's chief executive, A. Maurice Myers, said, "We were able to achieve our first-quarter results through focus on specific expense categories, such as maintenance and overtime, and by deferring certain of the corporate overhead expenses, including the hiring of additional personnel, until later in the year".
And at Reminiscence, in the Flatiron District, a vintage store that carries a selection of kitschy gift items, they picked out the Budget Cuts bank, a ceramic pig designed by Fred with "cut" lines dividing it into sections marked with expense categories, like "takeout" and "tuition," instead of cuts of meat.
If expenses were important, we broke out expense categories and tracked them month by month.
The two biggest expense categories are selling, general and administrative expenses, and R&D.
