amortization (depreciation) of a debt

  • 11amortization — 1) The process of treating as an expense the annual amount deemed to waste away from a fixed asset. The concept is particularly applied to leases, which are acquired for a given sum for a specified term at the end of which the lease will have no… …

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  • 12amortization — a·mor·ti·za·tion || ə‚mɔːtɪ zeɪʃn n. depreciation; decrease; gradual payment of debt …

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  • 13Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — (EBITDA) is a non GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company s profitability.::EBITDA = Operating Revenue – Operating Expenses + Other RevenueIts name comes from the fact that Operating Expenses do not include interest, taxes, or… …

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  • 14Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation And Amortization - EBIDA — A measure of the earnings of a company that adds the interest expense, depreciation and amortization back to the net income number, but takes the tax expense into consideration. This measure is not as well known or used as often as its… …

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  • 15Earnings Before Interest, Tax and Depreciation - EBITD — An indicator of a company s financial performance, which is calculated as: This measure attempts to gauge a firm s profitability before any legally required payments, such as taxes and interest on debt, are paid. Depreciation is removed because… …

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  • 16Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization - EBITDA — An indicator of a company s financial performance which is calculated in the following EBITDA calculation: EBITDA is essentially net income with interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization added back to it, and can be used to analyze and… …

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  • 17Accelerated depreciation — refers to any one of several methods by which a company, for financial accounting and/or tax purposes, depreciates a fixed asset in such a way that the amount of depreciation taken each year is higher during the earlier years of an asset’s life.… …

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  • 18earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization — ˌearnings before ˌinterest, ˌtax, depreciˌation and amortiˈzation abbreviation EBITDA noun [plural] ACCOUNTING TAX a company s profits for a particular period of time, not including interest payments on its debt, tax payments, and amounts to… …

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  • 19Write-off — The term write off (or write down) describes a reduction in recognized value. In accounting terminology, it refers to recognition of the reduced or zero value of an asset. In income tax statements, it refers to a reduction of taxable income as… …

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  • 20Book value — In accounting, book value or carrying value is the value of an asset or according to its balance sheet account balance. For assets, the value is based on the original cost of the asset less any depreciation, amortization or impairment costs made… …

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