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5)- General and administrative expense

This is the most fixed cost component of the income statement. It consists in salaries of management, utilities, insurance, rent and other sundry items. This item can usually be skipped except if it jumps from year to year by more than the inflation rate and sales growth. Then an explanation should be sought.

See review question Q-13C4.1.

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