charges de capital

English translation: amounts charged to capital

17:30 Jul 30, 2014
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Law/Patents - Finance (general) / correspondence between French and English accounting terms
French term or phrase: charges de capital
Swiss French

Resultat d'exploitation ("GP before WC charges") 2007 to 2013 permettant de verifier si les charges de capital ("WC Charges") y sont déja comprises;

This concerns a court case concerning an employee's variable salary which is based on the employer's net profit.

The English terms in brackets are no doubt those used in the employer's accounts. Normally I would just use the English terms in brackets but I'm not sure that they correspond. Can I safely put "working capital charges" for "charges de capital"? For me working capital charges are operating costs whereas "charges de capital" are depreciation and interest.
Zonia Clissold
Local time: 15:04
English translation:amounts charged to capital
Explanation:
Without a bit more context regarding the dispute, it would seem to me that the issue is the amount of profit which determines the employee's remuneration. Consequently, the issue is the correct allocation of costs between income and capital in the accounts. Hence the need to verify whether charges to capital had been included in the P&L (income statement).
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njrobertson
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Local time: 14:04
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4 +1working capital charges
nweatherdon
3amounts charged to capital
njrobertson
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Definition of capital charge and capital charge rate
Duncan Moncrieff

  

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working capital charges


Explanation:
As opposed to financial capital, etc.

Say, you have a $100 chair and you are calculating depreciation. Or a computer, or a shovel ... Textbook case. That's what it looks like to me.

I think "capital charges" alone would also suffice.

nweatherdon
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agree  Duncan Moncrieff: I agree with the term, but not how you present it. Depreciation has got little to do with a company's cost of capital.// Ok, happy to change to "agree". :)
1 hr
  -> Not sure what I was thinking. It's the right term. Working capital charges are not the same as deprecitation. Definitions are easily found online ...
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amounts charged to capital


Explanation:
Without a bit more context regarding the dispute, it would seem to me that the issue is the amount of profit which determines the employee's remuneration. Consequently, the issue is the correct allocation of costs between income and capital in the accounts. Hence the need to verify whether charges to capital had been included in the P&L (income statement).

njrobertson
United Kingdom
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Reference: Definition of capital charge and capital charge rate

Reference information:
Capital charge rate
Definition:

The capital charge is the cost of capital times the amount of invested capital. This capital charge is a dollar amount. By capital charge rate is just the cost of capital. In other words, the capital charge rate is the rate or return required on invested capital.



Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/glossary/c/capital-charge-ra...


    Reference: http://www.nasdaq.com/investing/glossary/c/capital-charge-ra...
Duncan Moncrieff
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