Sentence examples for portion of earnings from inspiring English sources

Increase Earnings Per Share ("EPS"): Removing some shares from the marketplace means annual earnings will be distributed among fewer shares, and each share will be entitled to a greater portion of earnings.

Perhaps revenues are being recognized extremely quickly, robbing the next quarter of profits; payment terms are being loosened, increasing the risk of future losses, or a single contract is making up a huge portion of earnings.

This Goldilocks zone — not too high, not too low, but just right — means that companies are returning a decent portion of earnings to shareholders, but not so much that they will have trouble raising payments.

"Because job change accounts for a substantial portion of earnings growth, especially for younger workers, this decrease in churning reflects a decrease in workers' opportunities for [higher wages]," write the study's authors, economists John Haltiwanger of the University of Maryland and Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer and Liliana Sousa of the Census Bureau.

Since it could be difficult for a corporation to pay all of its bonds at one time, it is common practice to pay them gradually through serial maturity dates or through a sinking fund, under which arrangement a specified portion of earnings is regularly set aside and applied to the retirement of the bonds.

This is intended to ease the cost burden on employers and to avoid putting off employees by cutting their wages too sharply.Even when full contributions begin in 2018, they will be just 8% of salary (and then only on a limited portion of earnings); in contrast, total contributions to traditional final salary-schemes are 21%.

Other local businesses pitched in by donating portions of earnings and even servers' tips.

Under the city's current income tax structure, in which tax rates rise along with income levels, the higher rates are applied only to portions of earnings, those above a certain point.

Falling earnings often trigger lower bond ratings, higher interest rates, and thus less profit as bigger and bigger portions of earnings are used to pay down liabilities.

Yet with few exceptions, workers in the United States must pay a portion of their earnings to Social Security, which is matched by their employer.

Many people earn a significant portion of their earnings from employment in harvesting, transport, processing nurseries and reforestation.