You'll have to put down 30% of the cost of the building and amortize your loan.
Until recently, studios could amortize the production and marketing costs of a movie over as long as 20 years.
Amortize, the dictionary tells us, is the gradual extinction of a future obligation.
It can take years to amortize some policies' steep sales commissions and get a good rate of return, he explains.
By doing this, Bush guaranteed that income taxes would have to be raised in order to amortize the trust funds.
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Alternatively, you can spend the money in 2012 and capitalize the amount into Section 195 startup costs to amortize in 2013.
With it, Disney is hoping to amortize the cost of its ABC programming with reruns of shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
The thing about interest only loans is that ultimately they must amortize.
That's when the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to let companies that acquire others expense the goodwill, rather than amortize it.
Today, NetFlix has the largest subscriber base over which to amortize content costs, so the content costs would pose a bigger burden on its competitors.
Similarly, the proposition that Eximbank has obtained genuinely dedicated income streams to amortize the loans through escrow account arrangements does not measure up to standard commercial banking standards and practices.
But with ESPN's muscle to raise the monthly fees it charges cable systems and amortize the huge cost across multiple outlets, it should prove to be worth the high price.
Roughly half of this shortfall finds its way onto the balance sheet as a liability. gm is allowed to amortize actuarial losses that make up the other half of the unfunded portion.
Consequently, it passed a law prohibiting auditors from prescribing any particular accounting treatment of the credit--thereby allowing companies to flow the credit through to earnings all at once or amortize it as they pleased.
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Success in Japan is frequently a precursor to success globally, which makes it particularly attractive for game developers who are looking to amortize their development costs over as large an installed base as possible.
In the past TiVo has had to expense the cost of the cobranding, either in the form of direct subsidies or as a noncash charge to amortize stock and warrants issued in return for services.
Now, under new rules adopted in June by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, they'll have to amortize the production costs over no more than ten years and immediately expense the marketing (which can cost as much as making the film).
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