In the context of public services, users should pay marginal costs and site owners should pay the fixed costs through a tax on site rates. |
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In fact, you can have an Internet business if you just pay for your domain, hosting and a followup autoresponder as fixed costs. |
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However, he said the hotel business had changed over the past decade, with fixed costs a growing concern. |
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The rental rate includes all the fixed costs of operating a facility expressed on a square footage basis. |
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In industries with high fixed costs, horizontal integration enables firms to benefit from greater economies of scale. |
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They want to know my outgoings, my fixed costs, my capital outlay, my VAT number, my date of incorporation. |
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In a world of overcapacity, every company is desperate to sell what it can, if only to help offset its fixed costs. |
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The thing that worries us is that VisitScotland has substantial fixed costs and the only area where there are variable costs is in the marketing. |
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Examples of common fixed costs are insurance and depreciation while variable costs include direct labor, raw materials and utilities. |
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You have grown quickly and taken on fixed costs but you cannot convert the level of business into cash quickly enough to meet your fixed costs. |
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They finally had enough revenues to cover their fixed costs and marketing expenses. |
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They have laid off staff and renegotiated fixed costs, from lease payments to Internet access. |
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In industries with relatively high fixed costs, price discrimination is pursued vigorously. |
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The fixed costs, variable costs, the interest expense and depreciation are allowable deductions. |
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Main financial variables were hospital operating costs, fixed costs, and variable costs. |
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Short on revenues, the company had high fixed costs, including rent for office space, furniture, and computers. |
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In contrast to fixed costs, variable costs change in direct proportion to the number of patients. |
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You don't have as much built-in overhead or as many fixed costs as companies that have been around longer tend to have. |
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Railroads could not recover their fixed costs by offering prices that covered only the marginal costs of the interstate trip. |
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That is because the high fixed costs make the marginal cost of adding passengers on a partially-filled flight almost negligible. |
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As many pubs struggle with high overheads and fixed costs, estate management contracts are also becoming more appealing. |
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In order to provide profitability, we had to cut into rising fixed costs somehow. |
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It may be that such a company has underpriced its products, leaving it insufficient margin to cover its fixed costs. |
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This grossly underestimates the fixed costs involved in running a CD manufacturing plant. |
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Retailers have high fixed costs, so small movements in trading volumes have a disproportionately large impact on earnings. |
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Duty, transport and distribution are fixed costs, so the more you spend, the more wine you get for your money. |
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That's partly because of the huge fixed costs of running factories even through periods of low demand. |
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You have fixed costs, you have variable costs, and you have profit margins. |
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In fact, as the business grows and increases its fixed costs, its operating profit margins are likely to suffer in the short run. |
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First, as scale economies grow, fixed costs rise and marginal costs fall. |
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The high fixed costs of water systems lead to economies of scale that contribute to conditions of natural monopoly. |
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The beer business is one where fixed costs are high, so scale is vital. |
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It would constitute an element of fairness between resident consumers and holidaymakers with regard to sharing the fixed costs of the system. |
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To further reduce our fixed costs base, we mothballed in July our plant in Newark, New Jersey. |
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The volume business is essentially needed to keep down the unit fixed costs. |
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Jaguar has sucked up money to build large saloon cars, such as the XF and XJ, but in volumes too small to defray hefty fixed costs. |
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The restructuring and cost-cutting measures implemented have led to lower fixed costs and a deeper breakeven. |
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That could allow it to shed jobs without adding to its fixed costs. |
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Rather than reducing expenses, underutilization of the OR actually increases them because of high fixed costs associated with labor and excess capacity. |
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When the price of a company's products falls, it finds it increasingly difficult to turn a profit because of its fixed costs. |
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Utilities are allowed by their regulators to recover part of these fixed costs through a monthly fixed charge. |
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In general, companies that do this are able to improve their return on capital and transfer the risk of fixed costs into variable costs. |
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Indeed, the fixed costs of water supply are typically high relative to variable costs, especially when compared with other utilities. |
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Annuities are ideal if you want to cover fixed costs or are concerned about outliving your income. |
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Auto suppliers gained longer-term contracts, but paid a stiff price in terms of taking on more fixed costs and a constant struggle to match variable costs to price cuts. |
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The high level of fixed costs that characterises the industry requires a significant number of launches in order to be amortised. |
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We continue to drive down our fixed costs, improve our product and customer mix and take working capital out of both of our businesses. |
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The second weakness of the model is related to the high level of fixed costs on a large share of our business. |
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Per-unit cost of the product or hour of service, detailing the organization's variable production costs and fixed costs. |
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This market structure is coherent with the capacity of the infrastructures to make economies of scale, given their high fixed costs. |
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The fixed costs associated with investments in information and communication technology have increased the relevance of economies of scale. |
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That means developing more flexible workforces and keeping fixed costs low-to do more with less. |
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Arkema also continued to reduce its fixed costs through restructuring plans and a strict control of expenditure. |
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For example, there may be fixed costs of lending that are not proportional to the size of the loan. |
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While operating costs are easy to come up with, it's important to understand your fixed costs. |
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This increase results from a strict control of fixed costs and PVC price increases, which offset higher energy and ethylene costs. |
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With more revenue to cover their fixed costs, these retailers are able to sell gasoline at lower margins, resulting in lower prices to consumers. |
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This increase in activity will allow us to improve the amortization of our fixed costs. |
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By converting formerly fixed costs into variable costs, contact centers can both better control expenses and manage capacity requirements. |
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Since groups of users do not all display the same service utility functions, prices can be increased on the least elastic segments in order to cover fixed costs. |
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Moreover, a large portion of water infrastructure is fixed in place and has no alternative uses, which means that a large part of the fixed costs are irreversible. |
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According to the Agra CEAS study production costs, variable as well as fixed costs in the EU increase in line with higher animal welfare standards. |
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Due to high fixed costs, when demand fell, these newly merged companies had an incentive to maintain output and reduce prices. |
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Given high fixed costs, the new price was below average total cost, resulting in a loss. |
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Such a measure may finance cruise costs and fixed costs of vessels. |
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This decrease negatively affected the absorption of our fixed costs. |
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In this way, Soluzioni Marketing integrates and explicates the role of country manager for the market involved, variabilising the client's fixed costs. |
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For example, Vermont's voluntary program did not get any funds and the Office of Child Support absorbed all fixed costs associated with the program, which included costs to reprogram the telephone system. |
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The fixed costs of trading with Kiribati are high but the market is small. |
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The focus on larger companies is justified by the fact that smaller companies are expected to have a higher cost price as fixed costs weigh more heavily on them. |
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The funding was only for one year, even though the fleet is a capital-intensive activity with high fixed costs that requires long-term funding certainty. |
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Similarly, volume decreases would still leave fixed costs to be paid. |
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The Committee was thus able to appreciate the scale and swiftness of the operating measures taken by Imerys to reduce its fixed costs and maintain its ability of free cash flow generation. |
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It would also prevent the duplication of fixed costs and lead to a more efficient use of divisional investigative support and administrative resources. |
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Their great challenge is to increase their critical mass in order to take advantage of economies of scale to better cover their fixed costs and improve their performance, and thus reduce the cost per title. |
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In this environment, Arkema's teams have shown their ability to rally round quickly and to take successfully the necessary initiatives to adapt by giving priority to generating cash and saving fixed costs. |
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In distinction to such TACA parties, others have elected to maintain and bear the fixed costs of extensive internal sales forces, customer service functions and agency networks. |
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However, we remain confident and plan to maintain our commitment to reducing fixed costs and debt, while continuing to leverage the same growth drivers: improving margins, generating cash and divesting assets. |
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These excellent results are due to significant reductions in fixed costs and to the growth projects being implemented in accordance with our expectations. |
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The improvement from the same period one year ago was due to higher polymer selling prices, lower fixed costs and lower depreciation expense, which were partially offset by higher feedstock costs. |
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These fixed costs, plus the variable costs of production, must be recovered from sales over the lifetime of the project – and future climate policy can substantially increase the variable costs of these technologies. |
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Given the decrease in production volume, part of that increase is due to rising fixed costs per unit, and variable costs are likely to have increased even less than total average costs. |
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In essence, it was designed to allow the railways to recover their variable costs plus a full and fair contribution to their constant or fixed costs, that is, system costs that did not vary with traffic. |
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This reduces the analytical time requirements per sample and usually reduces the cost per sample, as there are certain fixed costs associated with the analysis of samples, whether done singly or in larger sets. |
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There are no increases proposed for non-staff fixed costs, and all costs related to office equipment, communications, contractual services and governing body sessions are straight-lined. |
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The best way to put yourself in a position to do that is to change your fixed costs to variable costs, exit high-capital intensity projects or lines of business, and consider outsourcing. |
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Measures to reduce fixed costs and optimize variable costs were continued and partially compensated for the very negative impact of the economic environment. |
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This decrease created a negative effect on the absorption of fixed costs. |
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Because of the high proportion of licence fees, there is a trend developing where fishermen are postponing their maintenance, their insurance, moorage fees and other fixed costs in order to pay the licence fee. |
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To use Hutt's analysis, the break-even point can be determined by calculating your fixed costs, variable costs and your contribution margin. |
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However, the one monopoly profit theorem is not true if customers in the monopoly good are stranded or poorly informed, or if the tied good has high fixed costs. |
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And because the gas-pump fees will reduce the number of uninsured drivers, he notes, insurance companies should be able to lower their fixed costs. |
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A natural monopoly is an organization that experiences increasing returns to scale over the relevant range of output and relatively high fixed costs. |
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Of course, generating accurate contribution margin statements is contingent upon accurate segmentation of variable and fixed costs at the cost center level. |
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The progression of rivalrous activity can be described similarly in the perfect competition scenario, yet there remains a question of fixed costs. |
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