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).
Q.: Where does the phrase pardon my French come from? - Charles C. A.: The phrase in this form started out in the 1950s as an offshoot of excuse my French.. This is a result of racial stereotyping-Anglo-Saxons of the late 19th century blamed the French for anything remotely dirty.he origin of this phrase (Which means excuse my use of profanity) does not originate for the French word for seal, as Lazy Time Waster suggests.