Sentences with phrase «be a profit at»

I've saved more than 1 % in taxes and I'll get a 4 % employer match so that will still be a profit at the end of the year.

And lenders shouldn't be profiting at the expense of our students.

If you know you'd usually spend $ 250 at a Hilton resort a year and $ 250 on airline incidentals (or some airline gift cards), then you probably should get the Aspire card because you'll be profiting at least $ 50 a year from this card.

Thus we can deduce from the Apollo Alliance's sales pitch that they think their customers will be motivated by basic notions of equity, and will consider a situation in which they are profiting at the expense of others (ie, by using fossil fuels, the greatest harms of which will afflict the poorest globally) undesirable.

Not exact matches

Now, she says, pretty much all the jobs she does are contracted for at least $ 1 million, and she shoots for profit margins between 25 and 38 percent.

A 2 & 20 is typical (a 2 percent annual fee on an investment, plus a 20 percent share of profits at the fund's end date).

Not - for - profit organisations are at risk of failure as they struggle to upskill staff, according to research from the University of Western Australia.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Let's say after paying all its costs, advertising, payroll, taxes, and more taxes, a small business has a margin at the end of the day of 10 % (that's pretty good nowadays, especially for a smaller business); that means your 3 % credit card fees are costing them 30 % of their profit!

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

The author's methodology is Sales — Profit Expenses, which is a change to the traditional way of looking at businesses.

As an example, if every customer paid with credit, a small family business would see its profit reduced from $ 50,000 to $ 35,000 — and if their margins before card fees were closer to 5 %, then you are looking at cutting their profit from $ 50,000 to $ 20,000!

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The bill is estimated to boost insurance companies profits by as much as 15 percent, according Ana Gupte, an analyst at Leerink Partners.

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

Meanwhile, profits were up 50 percent at $ 3.5 billion in Exxon's business exploring for and producing oil and natural gas

Rather than applying the «new year, new me» mantra only at the top of the year, the star of CNBC's «The Profit» says he's not shy about setting new goals whenever he feels the time is right.

The Permian continues to boom, and even in case of takeaway capacity constraints — which have led to around $ 11 a barrel discount of Midland, Texas, oil to Brent — Permian producers would pump at profit if Brent were to rise (and stay) at $ 80, Bloomberg's Denning argues.

But with the price of bitcoin skyrocketing (at least on a monthly basis) and other currencies following suit, it's probably no surprise that some less legitimate folk have sought to profit from the boom.

Amazon's focus on strengthening its strategic position, at the expense of short - term profits, is well - documented.

«Digital profits in Europe exist but are taxed very little or not at all,» said the European commissioner for taxation, Pierre Moscovici, who blamed traditional rules designed for companies with a physical presence in the countries where they offer their services.

The road to handset profits will be a difficult one — BlackBerry's third - quarter results showed that BlackBerry 10 smartphones, once touted as the way to recover lost ground, have hardly been selling at all.

The income method is arrived at by adding up total compensation to employees, gross profits for incorporated and non incorporated firms, and taxes less any subsidies from the government.

Here's the way to look at this: Total profit for the S&P 500 is expected to increase 16.7 percent, according to Thomson Reuters.

At the same time, money management pros are lightening up on industries where profits have been undercut by new technologies.

All eligible companies were independent and Canadian - owned at the end of the 2017 PROFIT 500 research period.

I suppose there's a chance that I could — with enough time, patience and capital — have come up with the perfect way to sell sub sandwiches at a profit in my hometown of Charles City, Iowa.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

Beshara, now the co-founder and CEO of group payments startup Tilt, was six days post-graduation and newly arrived at his not - for - profit microfinance job in Capetown, South Africa, when his boss gave him a new assignment in the surrounding slums.

This is a win - win for the farmer and the buyer, as neither have to worry about a major fluctuation in price eating away at their profits at harvest time.

By contrast, BP's stock fell by 3 % as some analysts said its results were boosted by a one - off tax gain, meaning its longer - term profits and ability to pay dividends could still be at risk.

«The dominant and accepted understanding at the time, which continues, is that business is there to make a profit for shareholders — period,» said David Langstaff, who went on to become chief executive at national security firms Veridian Corp. and TASC.

A trip to South Korea is an eye - opening look at how companies there are achieving positive social change while turning a profit.

On one hand, marijuana sales boosted by consumer enthusiasm and holiday spirit are great for distributors of cannabis, who are already swimming in profits, but come at the expense of general employers who may notice their workforce is inexplicably missing in mass or notably less productive on April 20.

A spike in fuel prices, generally airlines» biggest cost after employee pay, is eating away at carriers» profits.

But the magnitude and duration of his involvement points to some familiarity with the thieves whose profits he was allegedly laundering: «I assume at least he knows where to send the check,» says Nilsson.

If profit isn't the easiest way forward, look at reducing business costs.

In fact corporate profits are a recognized long leading indicator, which means they usually peak at least a year before the economy as a whole.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

The idea of buying a home, sprucing it up and selling at a profit a few months later is celebrated by at least a half dozen popular reality TV shows, several of which are either made in Canada or involve Canadians: Love it or List it, Flip this House, Home to Flip, Flip or Flop and the strangely named Masters of Flip.

At the end of the year, there is an additional profit sharing component of the retirement plan.

The quest for that kind of flexibility is what led Koh to her position at a packaging and sustainability not - for - profit.

That's because under current law, profits from a small business «pass through» to the owner and is taxed at his or her individual rate, which can be as high as 39.6 percent.

Now let's be realistic — not everyone is going to be able to invest $ 1,000 and make $ 2,000 profit month after month, but the key is to at least explore PPC advertising as an option and be willing to invest some money to try it for a couple months.

Profits paid out from the corporation to shareholders as dividends are taxed at a significantly lower rate than personal income and income can be split with family members to further offset taxes.

Business owners are also able to income split after - tax profits from their corporation by issuing shares directly, or through a family trust, to other family members, and paying those family members dividends that are then taxed at lower rates.

The difference is that in an S corp, owners pay themselves salaries plus receive dividends from any additional profits the corporation may earn, while an LLC is a «pass - through entity,» which means that all the income and expenses from the business get reported on the LLC operator's personal income tax return, says Ebong Eka, a CPA who also pens his own blog about the world of entrepreneurship at MoneyMentoringMinutes.com.

Though many tech companies had been stockpiling cash overseas to defer paying taxes on their foreign profits, the new law requires companies to pay taxes on those holdings immediately but at reduced rates.

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

Thanks to the current economic climate, it's harder for businesses to generate a profit now than at any other time for generations.