0 making the amount, level, or value of something gradually increase: --
accretive to sth It expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings in the first year.
Instead, the company turned its focus on accretive acquisitions, focusing on assets that could be purchased for pennies on the dollar from numerous telecom bankruptcy estates.
The transaction, subject to standard closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter and to be neutral to earnings in 2008 and accretive in subsequent years.
The acquisition is expected to be earnings accretive from the third full-year following principal closing, i.e. the first full steady-state year following integration.
A deal will always be earnings accretive if the acquirer's price-to-earnings ratio is greater than the target's price-to-earnings ratio, including the acquisition premium.
Further accretive expansion along this long east-west street is re-ected in other plan units, stretched out along its length.
In the repeated routine of this sort of interaction was the accretive process of cultural transformation.
