Sentence examples for for their acquisitions from inspiring English sources

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is mulling changes that would make rules on accounting for goodwill less onerous for those firms that pay cash for their acquisitions.

But executives added ruefully that easy money has made deals more expensive, as buyers are compelled to pay more for their acquisitions.

The American buyers, in their rush to lock up future reserves without the risk and cost of new exploration, may have overpaid for their acquisitions, some analysts say.

This meant that whereas Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and the rest had to pay for their acquisitions in cash, running up huge debts in the process, Vodafone was able to pay using its own vastly inflated shares.

Such an outlandish claim absolves Ahold's bosses of responsibility for their acquisitions and ignores the persistent, firm-wide tendency to test the limits of acceptable accounting.Most firms that buy in bulk including such admired retailers as Wal-Mart and Tesco get discounts from suppliers if they meet sales targets.

Both operators have also floated on the stock exchange, which gave them shares that they could use as currency for their acquisitions.By contrast, France's La Poste says it seeks to be a key European player, but not a global one, although it has acquired some companies and formed an alliance with FedEx, America's second-largest logistics firm after UPS.

Laying out the goals for their acquisition of Fox Family Worldwide, executives from the Walt Disney Company said yesterday that they intended to create a cable channel built on the model of a broadcast network.

Both Dr. Darling-Hammond and Dr. Sahlberg said a turning point was a government decision in the 1970s to require all teachers to have master's degrees — and to pay for their acquisition.

"When the decision finally came down in June that the sculptures were going to be returned," said E. Randol Schoenberg, a lawyer for four of the heirs, "the family felt very strongly that they wanted to donate them to the Neue Galerie in gratitude to Ronald Lauder and the Galerie for their acquisition of the Klimt painting and keeping it in the public eye".

The Exiles face a second winding-up order hearing at the high court on Monday, less than two months after they announced that a sale and purchase agreement had been signed for their acquisition by a "major Californian-based investment group" – which the Guardian has learned is the Phoenix Group – aimed at securing London Welsh's long-term financial security.

Shortages of resources (chemical elements) used by growing industrial activities require new techniques for their acquisition.