Should the cost be laid to the first customer or amortized over several jobs?
There are various ways that those bonds could be amortized--like a home mortgage--over a 40-year period.
Even better: New rules say purchased goodwill no longer has to be amortized at all.
Loophole: Signing bonuses can be amortized over the life of a player's contract.
Market-based notes and bonds purchased at premium will be amortized to call date.
The purchase price with the profit component included can be paid over time to resemble an amortized loan repayment schedule.
The offsetting goodwill is, under new accounting rules, never amortized against earnings.
Loans are amortized for up to nine months, with interest waived on accounts paid off within the first 90 days of financing.
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When you purchase a car, your payments reflect the whole cost of the car, usually amortized over a four- to six-year period.
The liabilities of Social Security, as we know it, for current recipients and those about to receive benefits, can be amortized over 40 years.
The Fed has been buying government debt for several months, taking the money from the mortgages that are being amortized and buying the debt.
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In the fifth year the tax is amortized, and interest is due as well as a payment on the principal of the tax owed.
My mailbox is old, fully amortized, and made of steel of the type that America used to produce back when we forged steel that won wars.
If younger workers had their own accounts, Social Security liabilities could be treated as sunk costs to be amortized over the next 30 or so years.
The primary difference is the presentation of all System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities holdings at amortized cost rather than the fair value presentation required by GAAP.
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In computing alternative minimum taxable income, research and development costs have to be capitalized and amortized over ten years if you are not materially participating in the activities.
Energy consumed in searches is amortized across the entire operations.
College comparable store sales reflect the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fee received and amortized over the rental period.
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In 1971, for example, the now-defunct Accounting Principles Board, in the interest of conservative financial reporting, stated that the investment tax credit should be amortized over the life of the asset for which it applies.
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Smart communities should become their own REITS: asset-backed smart domicile securities that comport, for example, with all those gated communities around the world where locally-produced energy can be amortized, quantified, and the carbon footprints micromanaged for cost savings and greater energy efficiency.
If Illinois used a more conservative actuarial method to estimate liabilities, amortized over no more than 30 years (or a shorter period, as is used in many states that want to get a handle on their pension liabilities) and used a more realistic return assumption for TRS, those pension contributions would be rising even faster.
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While Mr. Roy, a Wall Street analyst, can no doubt afford that hot new piece of technology on day one of release, most Americans have to wait until the manufacturer has amortized enough of its costs to lower the price or, alternatively, settle for something they can more easily afford or for nothing at all.
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