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INDIRECT APPROACH [4 records]

Record 1 2008-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
CONT

Crown funding in any form, including direct or indirect benefits such as the investment tax credits and contribution for capital assistance, should be accounted for using the cost reduction approach. The amount of all such funds received by, or credited to, the contractor's account should be deducted from the related purchase price of the assets, with any depreciation or amortization calculated on the net amount.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
DEF

Méthode de comptabilisation du crédit d'impôt à l'investissement qui consiste à constater l'économie d'impôts qui découle de ce crédit en même temps que la dépense correspondante est portée dans les résultats.

CONT

Selon la méthode de la réduction du coût, le crédit d'impôt à l'investissement est soit porté en diminution de la dépense à laquelle il se rapporte, soit présenté à titre de crédit reporté et viré graduellement aux résultats au fur et à mesure que la dépense correspondante est portée dans les résultats.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Psychology
  • Human Behaviour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie scolaire
  • Comportement humain
OBS

approche : Dans les sciences humaines : Démarche comportant une part de subjectivité, mais consciente d'elle-même, d'où le recours à un constant contrôle, y compris au moyen de toutes les mesures objectives possibles. L'approche clinique.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing Research
DEF

In marketing cost analysis, an accounting approach in which only direct expenses are allocated to the marketing units being studied. A unit's gross margin minus its direct costs equals that unit's contribution to covering the company's indirect expenses(overhead).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étude du marché

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A determination(by indirect measurement) of peak discharge following a flood by field survey of highwater marks and channel and bridge geometry at a bridge constriction. Discharge is computed on the basis, of an evaluation of energy changes between the approach section and the downstream side of the constriction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Détermination du débit dans une section contractée d'un cours d'eau (par exemple, entre les piles d'un pont) à partir des traces laissées par l'eau en amont et en aval sur les parois de la section lors du passage de la crue.

Spanish

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