Other Operating Expense
View All TermsGuruFocus uses a standardized financial statement format for all companies. For non-financial companies, GuruFocus lists Selling, General, & Admin. Exp, Advertising, Research and Development, and Other Operating Expense under the "Total Operating Expenses" section.
Other operating expense sometimes includes:
Restructuring, and merger
Acquisition related and other
Litigation settlement charge
Other (too numerous to list)
Some companies can and do choose to report each of these items separately. Yet, there are a variety of other operating expenses which are simply too numerous to list.