"final calculation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the last step in a series of calculations or the ultimate result of a calculation. Example: "After inputting all the numbers, the final calculation determined that the company's profits had increased by 15%."
A final note: If your company is a "pass-through" entity (meaning that you have elected to be taxed as either an S corporation or a partnership, as opposed to a "C" or "regular" cooperation), the AMT adjustments are calculated by the company, but the final calculation is dependent on your personal tax situation as well.
How that final calculation was conducted is now the subject of intense debate.
Cook's return to England in 1771 allowed the final calculation of the sun's distance to be made.
And why did Heisenberg fail to make the final calculation that would have enabled Germany to develop its own bomb?
But the rural votes, probably favouring the PRI, and the final calculation of percentages, could swing the results its way.
Now the Bush war policy depends upon a final calculation — that an Iraqi security force can be made strong enough, soon enough, to allow the mostly American multinational force to recede.
The final calculation that gave Hughes the gold was more complex, but not so difficult that it kept Bruce Beck from laying it out yesterday on Channel 4's "Today in New York" program.
In the final calculation, Jann Wenner has only himself to blame for the brand-new music magazine, backed by Felix Dennis, that will arrive on newsstands next week and compete with Mr. Wenner's august flagship, Rolling Stone.
"In some buildings, the exterior walls are 18 inches thick," he said, noting that the additional foot and a half could add a significant number of square feet to the final calculation.
Re: "They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street" (March 10): While quantitative finance uses theory and mathematical equation to better understand the behavior of people in the marketplace, why is it that by the final calculation there is only regard for the behavior of the market and no mention of the people within it?
Having grown up mostly in Washington during his father's terms in office, Mr. Gore has been an accepted if never particularly beloved figure in this state, and voters say they expect to make their final calculation the way they always have.
