Sentences with phrase «businesses on their assumptions»

No one wants to purchase a business on the assumption that current customers will continue to patronize the business only to have the previous owner immediately join a competitor or open a similar business in the same area.

We challenge businesses on their assumptions about the world they want to succeed in, and map their route forward.

Not exact matches

«With our daughters, I never raised them how I was raised [with the assumption they'd join the family business,]» says Oddo, who has written a book on the principles of parenting.

Unfortunately, all too often business plans and forecasts are built on the assumption that you will hit every goal and grab every opportunity.

Although the company believes that such statements are based on reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its business and operations, the forward - looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and they are necessarily subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk.

But as cord - cutting has eaten into the traditional grip that sports had on the TV business, the assumptions behind those valuations are coming into question.

Most business advice was based on that assumption.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

As CIBC vice-chair Jim Prentice, a former federal environment minister, noted at a business forum in Lake Louise, Alta., in November, «a lot of assumptions have been based on the seemingly insatiable appetite of the United States for energy.

In 2008, for example, the assumption based on his campaign platform was that President Obama would put gunmakers out of business, turn health care providers into wards of the state, and usher in a golden era for alternative energy.

Based on a skeletal development plan, studies commissioned by the promoter, and an array of optimistic assumptions, the appraiser then projects the development costs and income for the imagined business.

This is a personal risk for employees, but it also offers them an incentive to work harder and see the company do well on the assumption that if the business does well they will see a payoff, too.

The analysis credits him with 13 percent of the business, based on an assumption that co-founder Sam Walton split the shares he owned equally among his four children — Rob, Alice, Jim and John.

There will be much to discuss in the coming days and months, including how to make contracts safer, how to incorporate fail safe mechanisms, whether the manner the decision was made can be improved, how to assure businesses they can be certain of immutability based on the assumption 51 % are honest actors and much more.

I would have liked the meetings to focus on validating or trashing the basic premises or assumptions on which the entire business model was structured.

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a month off, the assumption being that they are only going to do it when they feel a hundred per cent comfortable that they and their team are up to date on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business — or, for that matter, their careers!

N.B: This projection is done based on what is obtainable in The Building Exterior Cleaners industry cum window cleaning line of business and with the assumption that there won't be any major economic meltdown and there won't be any major competitor offering same additional related services as we do within same location.

The root assumption that gets Sales VPs fired (although the Board and CEO are equally responsible) is the false assumption that salespeople will find new business on their own from past Rolodexes or lots of cold calls, with a minimum of help or investment from the company.

This press release contains forward - looking statements that are based on management's current expectations, assumptions and beliefs about its business, financial performance, operating results, the industry in which it operates and other future events.

These spending assumptions are built on research that SmartAsset has conducted on existing small business credit cardholders.

All these are developed based on the assumptions that founders are able to foresee the unknown variables of the business, like a clairvoyant.

In making the forward - looking statements in this release, the Company has applied certain factors and assumptions that are based on the Company's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company, including that all conditions to the closing of the Transactions will be satisfied, including receipt of all required approvals, and the Transactions will complete on the terms set out in the APA and the SPA, the acquisition of the NODE40 Business will have the benefits to the Company anticipated by management, the 5,000 Rigs will be successfully ordered and delivered, the 5,000 Rigs will perform as expected by management and the timing, installation and performance of the 770 Rigs will be consistent with management's expectations.

If it is not our collective business to settle theological arguments, why are we creating statutes and committing state resources in support of a practice that rests on the opposite assumption — the assumption that there is no God, or at all events no God who would object to suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia?

Consequently, one will not sell automobiles or stocks or bonds or jackknives in ways that are directly illegal, but one will «keep his mouth shut» on the assumption that it is the buyer's business to watch out or take the consequences.

It is these comments that concern me, people who make assumptions based on misunderstanding how business works.

However, his talk examined how the normative assumptions underlying this new focus seem to retain the neoliberal emphasis on the promotion and facilitation of private business activity as the animating goal of law.

A core business case assumption is that all time on train journeys is wasted.

By way of an example, one of the assumptions to make the business case add up is basically that business people do not do productive work on trains.

The fact the business letter is leading bulletins on the Today programme hints at the deep political assumptions of the political mainstream.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The head of a trade organization that represents neighborhood convenience stores said a proposal by Ulster County Executive Michael Hein to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 21 is «based on a flawed assumption» and would cause businesses to «forfeit legitimate sales.»

Khan denied that he was also trying to «have it both ways» by using the business case against Goldsmith and instead called on the Tory candidate to answer whether he accepted TfL's fare rise assumptions

Such forward - looking statements are based on numerous assumptions regarding Rio Tinto's present and future business strategies and the environment in which Rio Tinto will operate in the future.

When asked for the source of the 17 % claim, Khan told Politics.co.uk that it was based on accepting the same fare rise and interest rate assumptions contained in the TfL business case which he has previously rejected.

The public should know what assumptions CityBridge's business model is based on, including how much revenue is being generated by the advertising and where those funds will be going.

Some of us have been saying for a long time that HS2 would be a monstrous waste of taxpayers» money, based as it is on flawed assumptions and a shoddy business case.

Business is business (and here I am making the assumption that we are talking about an offering that depends on revenue, from wherever it may come and in whatever form it may take, to survive) and, due to that, there are inherent responsibilities at play — responsibilities to your company or group and its members, to your users, and to the unobstructed evolution of your oBusiness is business (and here I am making the assumption that we are talking about an offering that depends on revenue, from wherever it may come and in whatever form it may take, to survive) and, due to that, there are inherent responsibilities at play — responsibilities to your company or group and its members, to your users, and to the unobstructed evolution of your obusiness (and here I am making the assumption that we are talking about an offering that depends on revenue, from wherever it may come and in whatever form it may take, to survive) and, due to that, there are inherent responsibilities at play — responsibilities to your company or group and its members, to your users, and to the unobstructed evolution of your offering.

Looking 15 years out, he calculates that «We should be doing at least $ 2 billion» in those five nations by 2010 and perhaps $ 500 million in incremental business within five years (both based on 1994 dollars and both on the assumption Eaton captures half the market share in those countries that it enjoys in North America).

Much as the afternoon focused on publishing's return to audiobooks as a growth center in the business, London Book Fair's Quantum conference audience was encouraged to review its assumptions.

E-readers, tablets and online distributors are definitely now an established force, and to forecast their demise would be to make the same mistake the former Labor minister for small business did: base an assumption on a short - term trend.

Analysis begins with establishing the base line of the business position, using numbers to try to gauge if there is a history of performing well and whether the numbers back up their rhetoric and claims and making assumptions on this historical picture.

Even applying a reasonably generous valuation on the business, to reflect the assumption that ICON will bounce back to its LT average margin, it's obvious that the market has opted for a rosier scenario...

But once these contracts are up and running properly, ICON will be firing on all cylinders and will return to / exceed its prior operating profit margins... Well, that's the assumption — but there's still a lot of risk involved at this stage, and the future profitability of this business is not totally clear.

This non-GAAP measure is based on assumptions and should * not * be construed as the maximum amount of cash sources available to run the business.

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Did you note that yesterday Goodbody released a research note on Donegal.Target price EUR 6.70 with VERY conservative assumption (they used a 20 % discount on the low - end valuation for the mushroom business, and used bear case valuations for a lot of other stuff).

because the dog owners are internally leaving scraps of food on the upper left border of my yard - and where dogs eat they will usually crap; so this is what i have to deal wth - they breed dogs and let them run free as if they own my property as well; i have called animal control about 6 times within the past 2 years - i believe they are related or friends which is my assumption - and guess what not only do i have 1 neighbor who let their dogs use my yard as a toilet but another neighbor two doors down who collect stray dogs but do not feed them and let them roam the neighborhood so they can knock over my garbage can 2 - 3 times a week; i am at my wits end - i want to put red peeper on the border of my yard as well but i do nt want to be sued; i have even confronted my neighbor about this and just suggested that they would keep their dogs from crapping in my yard as well as jumping in my kids pool - what did these animal loving people say:» they're animals - we cant control where our dogs do their business or if they get hot and go into your kids pool!»»

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These guys came in with a set of assumptions on every single issue, biased toward their friends, political allies, and campaign financiers (and not to mention their former colleagues and family members and themselves) in the fossil fuel businesses — and every single thing they have done has advanced the wealth of those people, in those industries.

In part, that is because Pacala and Socolow built their scenario on a business as usual (BAU) emissions baseline based on assumptions that do not appear to be coming true.