So chains regularly borrow large sums to cover routine expenses, like wages and electricity bills.
Cheth Thach, 23, the manager of a nail salon in the southern Miami-Dade city of Homestead, says routine expenses have become his main priority.
If true, this would have been disastrous, since most major companies rely on selling commercial paper to meet their payroll and other routine expenses.
Congress's health plan pays for routine expenses like office visits and vaccinations, for example, which is like auto insurance covering oil changes or new windshield wipers.
Republicans want to expand the use of health savings accounts, to cover routine expenses for people who enroll in high-deductible health plans.
Gov. Rick Perry and other leaders decreed at the time that money in the state's Rainy Day Fund should not be used for routine expenses.
Indeed, the distinction between a capital investment, a portion of which can be deferred, and routine expenses is one of the most basic and most discussed issues auditors face, said Roman Weil, a professor of accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
General Shelton's proposal would mean a 10percentt or greater increase in today's $309 billion Pentagon budget, without accounting for increases in pay, fuel costs, health care benefits and other routine expenses that inexorably drive up military spending every year.
In the mid-1990s, Waste Management became notorious for the way in which it treated all sorts of routine expenses as the costs of acquiring contracts, costs that could thus be deferred for years.
He has also struggled to raise money and has been forced to keep the campaign afloat through his personal finances, including a $500,000 investment this month to help cover routine expenses.
