The depreciation and amortization items added to earnings are both non-cash accounting entries. Depreciation is used to write down the cost of capital items purchased by a business and amortization is for intangible items.
Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful. For example, Ten years at the same job and now he hates it-familiarity breeds contempt. The idea is much older, but the first recorded use of this expression was in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (c. 1386).
How to Be Transparent. Dirty tricks are everywhere -- have you ever been fooled or even fooled yourself. Have you heard familiarity breeds contempt, Hmm!: but then does a transparent life lead to contempt of the individual-- no, that's silly -- or is there a root of a problem there...