Thus far the receipts from the inland messages had not covered the operating expensesincurred on account of those messages.
Since the business done by means of the additional wires did not pay, the directors had charged the cost of those wires to operating expenses, not to capital account.
The next step was to determine, in the same manner, the proportion ofoperating expenses assignable to each franchise, the operating expense being assumed to be uniform with gross earnings.
This improvement is also in part due to the growth of traffic, and thereby of operating expenses.
In fact, were it not for the economies of the carriers, effected by the use of more powerful locomotives and larger freight cars, the increase in operating expenses would, without doubt, have fully neutralized the growth in revenue.
Such expenditures are not ordinarily charged to operating expenses, and the court admitted that “theoretically” they should not be so charged.
In so far also as the plant was kept up to a high degree of efficiency by charging the expense of repairs to operating expenses, the absence of a depreciation account was partially offset.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operating expenses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
