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An operating expense (opex) [a] is an ongoing cost for running a product, business, or system. [1] Its counterpart, a capital expenditure (capex), is the cost of developing or providing non-consumable parts for the product or system.
In the case of a device, component, piece of equipment or facility (for the rest of this article, all of these items will be referred to in general as equipment), it is the regular, usual and customary recurring costs of operating the equipment.
Operating leverage can also be measured in terms of change in operating income for a given change in sales (revenue).. The Degree of Operating Leverage (DOL) can be computed in a number of equivalent ways; one way it is defined as the ratio of the percentage change in Operating Income for a given percentage change in Sales (Brigham 1995, p. 426):
In finance, the operating ratio is a company's operating expenses as a percentage of revenue.This financial ratio is most commonly used for industries which require a large percentage of revenues to maintain operations, such as railroads. [1]
A professional investor contemplating a change to the capital structure of a firm (e.g., through a leveraged buyout) first evaluates a firm's fundamental earnings potential (reflected by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and EBIT), and then determines the optimal use of debt versus equity (equity value).
Input: Operational expenditure (OPEX), capital expenditure (CAPEX), people (measured either as headcount including headcount of partners, or as total number of full-time equivalents) Output: Revenue, customer numbers/distribution between segments, quality, growth, customer satisfaction
The acronym OPEX may refer to: Operating expense; Operational excellence; OPEX (corporation) OPEX (Stock Exchange) This page was last edited on 2 ...
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate intended to help buyers and owners determine the direct and indirect costs of a product or service. It is a management accounting concept that can be used in full cost accounting or even ecological economics where it includes social costs.