The depreciation and amortization items added to earnings are both non-cash accounting entries. Depreciation is used to write down the cost of capital items purchased by a business and amortization is for intangible items.
Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. For example, Ten years at the same job and now he hates it-familiarity breeds contempt. The idea is much older, but the first recorded use of this expression was in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (c. 1386).
Well, it doesnât mean âugh,â the commonly used interjection of disgust or dislike that was first recorded in 1837. The word may have derived from fug boots that were worn by aviators in rural Australia during World War I. The term is believed to be a shortened version of âflying ugg boots.â. The owner of one company that has been making the boots since the late 1950s claims that he invented the name. He says that his inspiration came from his wife, who called the boots ugly.