NOUN
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
How To Use operating expense In A Sentence
- Do you only consider the operating expense ratio when selecting a mutual funds?
- Everton's operating expenses, including £17m for the "amortisation" – writing down – of the fees current players were signed for, amounted to almost £97m. Player sales help save Everton from £22m loss
- The company, which cut about 5 percent of its work force last year to keep a lid on costs, slightly lowered its operating expense target for the current fiscal year, which started on July 1.
- Minor costs that are difficult to allocate may be left out entirely from inventory cost and treated as operating expenses of the period.
- For convenience, we group the Fuel, Purchased Power, and Other Operation and Maintenance operating expenses reported by Edison and call the subtotal Cost of Goods Sold. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
- Higher operating expenses and tax outgo crimped net profit growth to 4%. Paper Tigers No More
- First, the college made a decision five years ago, in response to the decreasing value of our endowment, five percent of which is used each year for operating expenses.
- According to the company, it was able to get operating profits (called 'netback' in oil industry jargon) of around 83% of the proceeds of the sale of oil and gas in India, after accounting for operating expenses and government levies. Analysis
- Junior finance analyst: - make monthly operating expense report compare it with expense budget.
- They had zero debts beyond normal operating expenses and they avoided the use of credit by continuing to pre-pay wholesalers for all new purchases. In Distress
