Sentences with phrase «cost pricing practices»

Penguin's filing (pdf) takes a host of shots at Amazon, which it repeatedly refers to as a monopoly that drove the retail price of some ebooks to $ 9.99 through «predatory, below - cost pricing practices... apparently designed to exclude competition and control the pricing of ebooks».

Not exact matches

Many employers are retaining boom - time workplace health practices, but cost cutting does have its price.

Those can include import taxes that offset unfair practices such as government subsidies or below - cost pricing.

These gains were matched in many economies around the world, the result not just of the now widespread practice of having a central bank with instrument independence commit to an implicit or explicit goal of price stability, but also of course of the effects of global economic integration on competition and labor costs.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

China's widely documented practices of subsidizing exports and dumping exported goods at prices that do not reflect market costs -LRB-...

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

State - owned oil companies in June last year dumped the 15 - year old practice of revising rates on 1st and 16th of every month and instead adopted a dynamic daily price revision to instantly reflect changes in cost.

«Yet that's exactly what is happening year after year as the state continues the costly practice of relying on outside contractors to do the work state employees can do for less, even when the cost of state employee benefits are included in the price.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

Other recommended actions include more research, especially collaborative work, and more funding for that research; practicing integrity and high ethics; and controlling costs in such a way as to reduce the prices of drugs.

If you are thinking about incorporating eLearning practices in your training and development strategy, but are unsure of how much it will end up costing, your first step should be requesting an eLearning price quote from an eLearning vendor.

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

As for the tablet devices and their jaw dropping price tags, the company has been relying on slightly outdated tech coupled with cost effective manufacturing practices to arrive at the price points.

In an unregulated marketplace, where the same service can cost $ 500 against $ 15,000, for pretty much the same thing, depending on where you shop; where useless services are sold at inflated prices; where one large operation with many imprints, and controversial practices dominate the information stream, how do you know who to trust?

It will probably become a * disastrous * money drain if B&N needs to compete against Amazon's below - cost e-book pricing practices.

DiggyPOD wants the self - publisher to have a good understanding of what the manufacturing costs are, and how to avoid deceptive pricing practices.

Although this might give you a headache to calculate how much you will end up paying to read a book, in practice, a 175 - page novel may only cost less than $ 1 which is still in the acceptable price range for eBook that most Chinese readers are willing to spend according to Tech in Asia.

In an earlier post, Walking the talk: Applying back - tested investment strategies in practice, I noted that Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, has a thesis that «transaction costs» — broadly defined to include brokerage commissions, spread and the «price impact» of trading — foil in the real world investment strategies that beat the market in back - tests.

When an investor invests an equal dollar amount each time a stock declines in price by a certain level (ie, $ 1,000 with each 20 % decline in price), it is called Price - Based Dollar Cost Averaging -(this practice is sometimes called Scale Trading and is discussed in Chapteprice by a certain level (ie, $ 1,000 with each 20 % decline in price), it is called Price - Based Dollar Cost Averaging -(this practice is sometimes called Scale Trading and is discussed in Chapteprice), it is called Price - Based Dollar Cost Averaging -(this practice is sometimes called Scale Trading and is discussed in ChaptePrice - Based Dollar Cost Averaging -(this practice is sometimes called Scale Trading and is discussed in Chapter 6).

In a perfect market the relationship between futures and spot prices depends only on the above variables; in practice there are various market imperfections (transaction costs, differential borrowing and lending rates, restrictions on short selling) that prevent complete arbitrage.

«Rankings in many regions were affected by recent world events, including economic and political upheavals, which resulted in currency fluctuations, cost inflation for goods and services, and volatility in accommodation prices,» said Ed Hannibal, a partner for Mercer's mobility practice.

In this article, we'll examine the primary factors that affect the price of a therapy laser and help you separate the features you need from the frills that increase the cost without adding value for your practice.

At only $ 60 a month, per vet, our veterinary cloud software pricing continues to be an affordable solution for large and small clinics, perfect for veterinary clinics and practices that are mobile and in the field as well as for low - cost and non-profit programs.

Prices can vary from practice to practice and costs will depend on which vaccinations your cat or kitten receives.

It is a practice that obviously takes transportation cost out of the supply chain, making Amazon even more price competitive with low - margin, bulky items like diapers and toilet paper, and allowing the company to devote more of its own warehouse space to higher - margin products.

If 60 % of products are set to fixed pricing in the practice management software, and the practice experiences a typical 14 % increase in inventory costs, that results in a loss of almost $ 16,000 in the first year, which equates to $ 50,000 over three years.

We're seeing alerts from business travel professionals this week warning that the major airlines have quietly changed their pricing practices on multi-leg itineraries in a way that can cost you a lot more money.

Students gain experience in applying for juried exhibitions, displaying work in a professional and effective manner, and mastering the basic business practices needed to run a sole proprietorship, i.e. bookkeeping for tax purposes, pricing work, studio start - up costs, registering yourself as a business in any given state, and using a CPA to advantage.

The destruction of mountains, streams, rivers and groundwater, the destruction of land laid waste by strip - mining, the loss of wildlife in these areas, the human illnesses and premature deaths that result from these practices especially in Appalachia, the CO2 emissions and resulting climate change along with the havoc this causes — all of these are externalities that do not enter into the price companies pay to mine the stuff or the costs we pay to turn on the a.c.

With the energy costs of carbon capture still very high, the question of whether CCS is taken up in practice will be answered by the carbon price and the cost of the technology.

We return to the questions posed earlier: with fuel costs already their single largest expense, why should fuel price increases spur changes in shipping and aviation designs, equipment and practices?

A major contribution from the economics of regulatory practice in electricity markets is the usefulness of marginal cost pricing.

Pimentel noted that although cash crops can not be grown as frequently over time on organic farms because of the dependence on cultural practices to supply nutrients and control pests and because labor costs average about 15 percent higher in organic farming systems, the higher prices that organic foods command in the marketplace still make the net economic return per acre either equal to or higher than that of conventionally produced crops.

These include weak capital markets; immature EE markets and supply chains; low energy prices; lack of information and awareness; high transaction costs; inadequate governance capacity; lack of consensus on best practices; sovereign risk; and institutional fragility.

· Listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale; · Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails; · Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business; · Responding to incoming email and phone inquiries; · Acting as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets; · Gathering market and customer information; · Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations; · Negotiating on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers; · Advising on forthcoming product developments and discussing special promotions; · Creating detailed proposal documents, often as part of a formal bidding process which is largely dictated by the prospective customer; · Reporting to Senior Management on sales and potential opportunities in your area; · Reviewing your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets; · Gaining a clear understanding of customers» businesses and requirements; · Following up with customers for payment; · Doing Quality - Control on products delivered; · Attending team meetings and sharing best practices with colleagues in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

This is because it will prove difficult to impossible in practice to put a cost on degrees of pollution in such a manner as to set prices accurately to give us the required degree of purity or non-pollution.

The business discovers in practice the cost of compliance and factors that into its prices.

So in addition to that recession, they write: «When a company has to pay for its direct ecological impact, compliance with environmental regulations, and higher energy costs — or even, in some cases, its reputation as a polluter and lawsuits that arise from its un-green practices — its stock price can plummet.»

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

TR did not announce a price for Firm Central, but said it would be competitive with other cloud - based practice management products, which generally cost in the range of $ 30 to $ 50 a month per user.

Efficiency, automation, and systematization are internal practices that can reduce your costs and make it possible for you to compete on price without threatening your profitability.

However, it's an outdated practice born of cost accounting and factory management that was never meant as a means of setting prices for professional services in the 21st century.

Sam Glover: Well and let's be clear, like most law firms needs can be met in a variety of ways and at a variety of price points and so there's nothing unethical about saying, «Hey you should use this on premise server based system that's going to cost a certain amount of money and make that IT consultant a lot of money,» and we're going to try to steer you away from this cloud based practice management software that doesn't make us any money, because they'll both meet your needs just fine.

There are law practices today saying, «Maybe the economy is reviving, but for whatever reason we don't think the pressure on prices (or internal costs) will continue.»

As part of her extensive multinational practice, Giovanna also handles transfer pricing matters for Fortune 50 companies and foreign - owned clients, working closely with economic experts in tax planning to establish cost sharing and related party licensing arrangements; assess multijurisdictional transfer pricing exposure; comply with FIN 48 and return documentation requirements; and develop audit, litigation, advance pricing agreement and authority strategies.

This training is fast paced and interactive and has been customized for a two day time period to be affordable to practice groups so that you can participate in this training at the lowest price, in your own community (without expensive travel costs), and with a minimum time out of your office.

Most are absurdly expensive, in part because of evolved pricing practice but also due to the hidden cost of maintenance (in relation to loose - leaf).

Harsh consequences for attorneys practicing here, but also potentially harmful for the public who receive assistance delivered online or from attorneys who use the cost benefits of cloud - computing to make their prices for legal services more affordable.