| They have to identify their variable costs, then calculate the money they can save or the new sales they can log adding technology. |
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| You have fixed costs, you have variable costs, and you have profit margins. |
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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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| Examples of common fixed costs are insurance and depreciation while variable costs include direct labor, raw materials and utilities. |
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| In contrast to fixed costs, variable costs change in direct proportion to the number of patients. |
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| The distinction between fixed and variable costs commonly used by accountants is quite irrelevant. |
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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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| The biggest piece of variable costs is in purchasing, but purchasing can't do it alone. |
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| In general, variable costs in the core plots were lower under monogastric systems and with two years of forage in the rotation. |
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| Marginal costs are cost components that are flagged as variable costs in the cost component layout. |
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| Over the year, the improvement of the product offer more than offset the impact of higher variable costs. |
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| So long as they can more than cover their variable costs, they keep on producing. |
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| For railways this implies a better understanding of variable costs and their relation to user charges. |
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| Fuel prices are variable costs with a high influence on the profitability of transport operations. |
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| We must devise measures to minimise the effects of the increase of variable costs that results from high fuel prices. |
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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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| Revenue declined more than expenses, as the declines in revenues were primarily concentrated in businesses with relatively low variable costs. |
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| This increase is mainly explained by higher costs due to the earthquake in Greece and increased 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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| A Forrester study reveals that employees with laptops achieve improved productivity, make more informed decisions, and reduce variable costs. |
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| This drop in variable costs has helped to lift profit margins. |
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| With the yen at these levels, Japanese exporters could not even cover their variable costs, let alone return a profit on sales in international markets. |
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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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| We'll never reach break-even if our variable costs are higher than our selling price. |
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| The amended Law on Education includes a provision stipulating that the variable cost of education for children with disabilities shall be different from the variable costs for other children. |
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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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| Because of multi-tasking, these relationships can only be estimated in many cases by allocating the full costs or the variable costs of operating units to their associated tasks. |
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| Influence of specific variable costs on road transport operations. |
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| The representative of the Secretariat noted that this rate is determined by several studies on indirect variable costs which were conducted within the United Nations. |
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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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| The work would examine the way charges for infrastructure are built up in different countries and their relation to variable costs, attempting also to shed light on the identification of variable costs. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| The existence of reserve capacity is common to most capital-intensive industries, where there are large sunk costs but marginal variable costs of production are low. |
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| Furthermore, there is an increase of the variable costs as energy and transportation because of the high prices and an increase of the produced volumes. |
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| In this case, the economic benefit received by the employee for the use of the employer's vehicle is equal only to the variable costs of the commute. |
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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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| The consequences will be most noticeable for crops in the disadvantaged areas or for crops involving the most variable costs in terms of intensity of labour. |
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| Wedgewood also carried out serious investigations into the fixed and variable costs of production and recognised that increased production would lead to lower unit costs. |
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| Variable costs may actually vary with the number of shifts, the number of set-ups, or many other specific activities. |
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