Sentences with phrase «cost than the management»

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According to Gartner Research, by 2016 investments in mobile apps, security, management and support will cost companies more than $ 300 per year per employee.

Mark Merritt, the CEO of Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the trade association that represents pharmacy benefits managers like Express Scripts, which recently partnered with Imprimis to provide its compounded version of Daraprim at a cheaper cost, made it very clear that he would rather see generic competition than compounded versions.

The Brooklyn, N.Y., firm is establishing a web - based financial system that will offer free ATMs, automated money management, smartphone bank deposits and free online bill payment with what the firm claims are no hidden fees and far lower costs than traditional banks.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, appeared on CNBC's Halftime Report, where he was asked about Chipotle's disappointing third - quarter earnings released on Oct. 24, in which profits, excluding certain costs, were significantly lower than analysts had expected.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

Management has a long - term target of achieving a contribution margin of 40 % in the U.S. by 2020, and it believes things are running ahead of plan because of higher than anticipated revenue growth and moderate increases in content and other streaming costs.

Ray Ferrara, the former chairman of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who's chairman and CEO of dually registered ProVise Management Group in Clearwater, Florida, noted on a panel discussion at the event that he expects his firm to shell out «less than $ 10,000 in our hard costs» to comply with the fiduciary rule, but didn't anticipate «any significant ongoing [compliance] costs.»

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Our simple 1 % annual combined advisory and management fee is up to 40 % more cost - efficient than investing in index funds or ETFs through traditional money managers or robo - advisors.

«I can't think of a better solution for dealing with the high costs of education than with a 529 savings plan,» says Jeff Nelligan, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ professional and Family Wealth Director with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Denver, Colo..

Because of our strong product development and partner management, our cost structure is much lower than an independent IT provider's cost structure.

You'll get the benefit of a senior financial advisor, a customized financial plan, ongoing portfolio management, and more — all for an annual cost of no more than 0.30 % of your assets under management.

An August 2016 Society for Human Resource Management survey found the average cost per hire is more than $ 4,100, and it takes an average of 42 days to replace a position.

The management fee is a unified fee that includes all of the operating costs and expenses of the Fund (other than taxes, charges of governmental agencies, interest, brokerage commissions incurred in connection with portfolio transactions, distribution and / or service fees payable under a plan pursuant to Rule 12b - 1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and extraordinary expenses), including accounting expenses, administrator, transfer agent and custodian fees, Fund legal fees and other expenses.

While the ABC Canadian small cap fund charged a management expense ratio of less than 2 %, add in the trading expense, and the funds» total cost approaches 3 %.

Rather than continue to pay the likes of SAP, Oracle, HP huge amounts of money for enterprise management, debugging, compliance and search tools, Splunk will deliver greater functionality and flexibility for a fraction of the cost.

In our view, with investment management fees coming down significantly over the past decade, it is entirely possible for plan sponsors to add skilled active management to their core lineup, at lower cost than in the past and with potentially broader opportunities than index funds alone.

With a combined workforce of over 8,500 associates serving more than 200 healthcare clients across the country, this move firmly establishes Towne Park as the national leader in cost effective and value added solutions for healthcare transportation, patient transport, parking management and patient experience.

As a chemical and sludge free system that consumes up to 95 % less electricity than traditional wastewater technologies, the BIDA ® System enables clients to not only significantly reduce wastewater management costs and environmental footprint, but also showcase their commitment to sustainability.

Better at attacking than Gibbs and as good as Monreal tracking back... should be a no brainer... Gibbs sold ageing Monreal a good back up and can ease this guy in to EPL... Net cost maybe 10m... but as far as I can tell wenger believes most of his business is done with Shaka jap as holding option for welbecks return wilshere and santi back and «revitalized» giroud and Ramsey like new signings... But anyone basing next years EPL on this euros is beyond football redemption... All the poor performers last year have upped their management and squads... So far the only non mover..

February 2018 Sanchez is at man utd and Lacazette is looking like a waist of money even Aubameyang on Saturday looked out of his depth that's down to bad management look at Mo Salah for Liverpool cost less than Lacazette and he is lighting the premier league up but would he have done that under Wenger?

The Catskill Heritage Alliance analysis demonstrates that authority management would cost more than DEC managment does.

The team also used a separate computer model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to estimate the costs: more than $ 250 million in building and crop damage in the flooded area.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates costs for measurement initiatives, but these estimates focus on the annual burden of entire measurement and reporting programs (eg, Physician Quality Reporting System) rather than the burden of individual measures or the burden for individual institutions.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

The favors could include a leading role in ITER's management and construction contracts worth more than Japan's expected financial contribution, which the E.U. hopes will be 18 % of ITER's cost.

Antipoaching patrols and other management costs in unfenced parks can run more than $ 2000 per square kilometer annually while fostering only half the number of possible lions.

All four are behind schedule, and the French and Finnish reactors have seen their costs more than double, suffering from quality control and management problems.

Co-author Dr Chetna Malhotra advises that rather than investing heavily in high cost treatments, «Policymakers should emphasize policies that support adequate pain management and hospice home care services.»

The evaluation of the management plans for NSF proposals for facilities and instruments costing more than several million dollars should constitute a significant part of the proposal selection process.

If your new LMS has little or no initial pricing cost, but is taking up large chunks of company time, then it may prove more expensive than a Learning Management System with a large pricing cost that fits seamlessly into your organization's processes.

Smartphones have become mainstream, gamification has seen a massive rise in popularity and whatnot; learning and performance management systems have clearly reached a point where cost effectiveness, smooth integration with other systems, and user friendliness are much more important than constantly releasing new features.

These tools seem to be valuable performance - management tools, but if CMOs hope to expand much faster and more effectively than they have, they need to find ways to reduce costs at the school level.

In addition, Dr. Jones has developed research - based methods of group management that are extremely cost - effective — that free the teacher to focus on instruction rather than discipline.

Register's announcement of changes in East Nashville comes amid a report detailing the increased costs charter schools impose on MNPS and reports out of Memphis that rather than turn more schools in that district's Innovation Zone, the Director of Schools there is seeking to «double down» on what's working: District management of schools with increased investment, support, and flexibility.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

We continue to argue about funding levels for online education, with folks outside the field assuming it should cost less because there isn't a building with classrooms to fund, and folks on the inside arguing that content development and maintenance, learning management systems, and additional professional development more than equate to on - ground school costs.

In the 2009 - 10 fiscal year, Mitchell received more than $ 3 million from the two charter schools for management fees and the cost of renting the buildings from another company Mitchell owns, according to publicly available copies of the charter school's tax returns, as reported by NC Policy Watch's Sarah Ovaska.

A series of embarrassing disclosures in the past month appears to have crippled FUSE, costing the organization all its management business, worth more than $ 1 million a year.

This report finds the seven largest charter operators, who all contract with educational management companies, have per pupil administrative costs that are $ 406 higher than the overall average for charter schools.

Trust me when I tell you that the cost of uncollected receivables, filing penalties or interest on late payments, write - offs due to posting errors, impaired management decision due to lack of accurate or timely reporting, improperly processed payroll, and undetected embezzlement will cost you exponentially more in the long run than cost cutting a $ 12 - 14 an hour employee in the accounting office.

The ST» 2» gains Xenons, an MP3 - compatible Sony stereo, heated windscreen and ESP traction and stability management and costs # 18,495 (still less than the VXR and M gane Cup).

When we first started, our designs had a power management circuit that had about 40 discrete components — E Ink designed, we have worked with Maxim and TI to create PMIC chips that replace those 40 components and increase reliability, reduce a lot of board space and take out more than 50 % of the cost.

Compromise as a conflict management strategy is useful when the cost of conflict is higher than the cost of losing ground.

Costs: In terms of development time, not more than 3 - 4 weeks of coding, 3 weeks testing, and 2 weeks of designing and project management.

And, because you repay a portion of what you owe over a period of up to 5 years, a consumer proposal is often the lowest cost option to consolidating debt, resulting in lower monthly payments than either debt consolidation or a debt management plan through a credit counsellor.

Hard to know whether that will help: over the five years under its current management, the fund has been a lot more volatile (bigger maximum drawdown but much faster recovery) and more profitable than its peers; the question is whether, in uncertain times, investors will buy that combo — even after the generous cost reduction.

If you have a large portfolio then you may find the most cost effective way to purchase this basket of stocks is best served by purchasing the securities individually, rather than paying a 0.35 % MER (Management Expense Ratio).