Every year, the charge for depreciation and return of investment in definite ratio will be appropriated to the enterprise, based on its fixed asset balance.

每年根据燃气企业的固定资产余额，按一定的比率提取折旧费和投资收益划拨给企业。

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In Watt's Latin America Equity fund, for example, you are getting shares of YPF, an integrated oil company in Argentina that trades at 6.5 times estimated cash flow (expected 1998 earnings plus depreciation). (The comparable ratio for Exxon is about twice that.) Buy the fund and you are buying YPF even cheaper, since the fund trades on the New York Stock Exchange at a 29% discount to net asset value.

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As the economic news worsens and profits dive, more firms will be at risk of breaching covenants on standard measures such as the ratio of debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.

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Hctor Medina, Cemex executive vice president of planning and finance, says Cemex's ratio of debt to cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) currently stands at 3.55 and should soon fall to 3.0.

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