1.   This total is then divided by interest expense to obtain the times interest earned ratio.

2.   An unusually low tax rate, along with lower interest expense and higher interest income, made up some of the profit lost from film sales.

3.   And two new printing facilities will start operating in Queens, New York, and Lakeland, Florida, increasing depreciation and reducing capitalized interest expense.

4.   Attention to the bottom line by chief financial officer Thomas O. Staggs has kept interest expenses down, Miller said.

5.   Besides the effect of the bloated inventory, Sunbeam was also hit by vastly higher interest expenses.

6.   -- Limit deductions corporations can take for their interest expense to the extent the assets include tax-exempt investments such as municipal bonds.

7.   A warm winter, interest expenses and the costs of hiring new employees bit into its earnings, Daiei said.

8.   A warm winter, interest expenses and the costs of hiring new employees bit into its earnings, the company said.

9.   Burry added that the RJR Nabisco bottom line also benefited from a lower interest expense than forecast, and a lower tax rate than anticipated.

10.   But Bird pointed out that current cash flow is a comforta times annual interest expense.