"operating expenditures" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to the money spent by an organization to carry out its day-to-day operations. For example, "The company's operating expenditures for the current fiscal year are $10 million."
But the continued decline in operating expenditures is new.
"The company doesn't have any other choice but to reduce capital and operating expenditures and delay some current tax payments".
Savings would be made by reducing government operating expenditures, consumption costs and trimming the bloated public sector.
Instead of slashing transportation projects or other infrastructure, for example, leaders would be pressed to cut operating expenditures.
State support has declined steadily as a share of operating expenditures for senior public institutions, dropping from 64percentt in 1994 to 56percentt in 2002.
So for the sake of completeness, the Republican committee's operating expenditures totaled $42 million, and the Democratic committee's amounted to $18.7 million.
Waterflooding schemes have to be planned such that at every point of the operation, net income from oil recovery exceeds operating expenditure of which produced water disposal cost is paramount.
Operating expenditure was £5.5m higher due to foreign exchange, with pretax profit at £92.6m versus our £89.3m.
Potential acquisition of Actelion could provide 12% earnings accretion through (i) potential pipeline driven revenue growth (ii) operating expenditure reduction.
In the past, the regulator's pricing model showed a bias towards capital investments for new infrastructure by water utilities rather than operating expenditure for enhanced services.
"The full extent of any errors in the calculation and payment of royalties has been been quantified," the report said, adding that "significant effort" was required to resolve the status of another $281.4m in operating expenditure deductions and $21.1m in capital expenditure deductions.
