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Non-GAAP earnings measure what a company earns after stripping out depreciation and similar non-cash accounting charges from the standard result.
The short form stands for non-generally accepted accounting principles, and the number Shurgard Self Storage put forward on that basis was €0.77 per share. Revenue came in at €229.6 million.
Why depreciation changes what gets reported A self-storage company owns physical buildings.
Accounting rules require it to book a portion of each building's original cost as an expense each year, as if the property were gradually wearing down.
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