Sentences with phrase «costs by some percentage»

This includes percentages too — so if you have reduced costs by some percentage, make sure that you mention it.

Not exact matches

Just divide your estimated costs by your own percentage to determine the amount of sales revenue you'll need to breakeven.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

That alone lowered MathSoft's advertising costs as a percentage of sales by 4 %.

«The curtailments will contribute to the Company's long - term goal of lowering Alcoa's position on the world aluminum production cost curve by 10 percentage points,» the company said in a statement.

The rates are based on a percentage of the streaming company's revenue or total content costs, agreed upon payment amounts by all parties.

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.

Our study shows closing costs as a percentage of median home value by county.

If benefits and costs increase by the same percentage, high wages will have zero effect on the number of innovations that pass the expected benefits > expected costs hurdle, and so zero effect on the number of innovations that would be implemented.

Pricing increased 2.1 percentage points, primarily driven by pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency in Latin America.

«Rocketrip is optimized for employees that are allowed to book travel using their website or vendor of choice, motivating cost sensitivity by rewarding employees with a percentage of the savings they generate.

A projection from energy economist Phil Verleger, as quoted by Denning, sees low - cost OPEC producers — Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Iran — losing 9 percentage points from their market share if the artificial propping up of prices continues until 2022.

Segment operating earnings declined from a loss of $ 3 million to a loss of $ 11 million, reflecting a lower gross margin percentage driven primarily by an increase in supply chain costs as well as higher carrot costs.

Each percentage point of additional borrowing costs with current abnormally low interest rates increases costs of funding by $ 680 billion.

Pricing increased 5.7 percentage points, primarily driven by actions to offset higher input costs in local currency.

Excluding the impact of currency, Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased 3.6 percentage points, primarily reflecting favorable pricing and lower overhead costs that were partially offset by higher input costs in local currency.

Even more remarkably, the carrier revised its full - year cost outlook down by 3 full percentage points.

Based on recent corporate leverage, this decline in the cost of debt would increase the typical company's return on equity by more than four percentage points.

When you purchase the contract and for an additional cost, you can select to have your income increase annually by a percentage, typically 1 - 5 %.

This increase was driven by higher total company contract sales, higher revenue reportability year - over-year, lower cost of vacation ownership products and lower marketing and sales expenses as a percentage of revenue.

Research from Vanguard shows that an «immediate» lump - sum amount in a portfolio that includes a 60/40 mix of stocks and bonds outperformed dollar - cost averaging by a margin of 2.4 percentage points on average during a 12 - month period.

The decline pushed profitability down by 0.7 percentage points to 35.9 % of sales since Kimberly Clark couldn't use higher prices to offset rising commodity costs.

With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

Granted, this is a significant percentage of the USDA reimbursement rate, but the cost can be covered by replacing fruit and vegetables on the «plate» with choices from the salad bar.

The high - scoring Diamondbacks and Cubs are 2 — 3 in the league in percentage of at bats by righties, but in the Brewers» case it may cost them a promising season.

To calculate ROI, the return of an investment (or in this case, the profit earned from your sports betting system) is divided by the cost of the investment with the result typically being expressed on this website as a percentage.

Granted, this is a significant percentage of the USDA reimbursement rate, but the cost can be covered by replacing fruit and vegetables on the «plate» with choices from the salad bar.

The original development agreement called for the Village, Library and Park Boards to share the cost of developing the land south of U.S. Highway 30 and north of Village Hall on Haven Avenue on a percentage basis determined by land ownership.

«The bill, which protects renters living with HIV / AIDS by limiting the percentage of household income payable to shelter costs to 30 percent, would pay for itself by reducing evictions, homelessness, and health costs.

But the exclusion is a carefully limited one, effectively raising the cap by an average of 1 to 1.5 percentage points (depending on how high pension costs spike in the next few years).

The post goes on from there, addressing the governor's assertion on the percentage of expenditures devoted to classroom instruction versus administrative costs, as well as his insistence that districts can make up the difference in lost aid with reserve funds and economize by reducing waste, fraud and abuse.

New York, with by far the most generous Medicaid benefits in the country, remains the only state that passes a percentage of those costs down to the localities.

Officials involved with the project believe that if this delay breaches Webb's cost cap, it will likely only do so by at most a few percentage points.

Over the whole period, rising disease prevalence boosted spending by 0.5 percentage point per year compared to a contribution of 2.5 percentage points from rising cost per case, the researchers found.

Neither NASA nor the companies will reveal what percentage of the development costs are being borne by the taxpayers, although NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier acknowledged at a 2012 House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee hearing that the government was paying the majority of those costs and did not disagree when asked if it was 80 - 90 percent.

The percentage of respondents who would have their child pursue a four - year degree drops by 7 points when only cost information is provided, and it increases by 8 percentage points when respondents receive only earnings information.

Without information on costs and benefits, the percentage of Hispanics selecting the four - year option trails that of whites by 6 percentage points, but that gap closes when either cost or earnings information is provided.

As an example, if you made a $ 100 profit on an investment that initially cost you $ 500, then your ROI would be 20 % (100/500 is equal to 0.2, which you can then convert to a percentage if you multiply by 100).

Earnings information, when provided to the less - educated, shifts the percentage upward by 6 percentage points, but cost information drives it downward by 11 percentage points.

«The students had to read bus schedules and discover the cost of medical treatments by using percentages based on different rates of insurance payment.

«The problem with such arbitrary percentage rules is that they prevent a full cost analysis by state and local governments and arbitrarily eliminate sound renovation projects.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Finally, we reduced those cost estimates by 20 percent, assuming that a small percentage of programs currently operating fewer hours than the new requirement, or operating double session programs will apply for and receive a waiver under § 1302.24.

Under the proposals, organisations of a certain size will have to pay a percentage of their payroll costs to the government to support the creation of apprenticeships as part of a drive to get 3m learners to begin one by 2020.

Researchers found that offering college - intending graduates 2 — 3 hours of additional summer support increased enrollment by 3 — 4 percentage points overall and 8 percentage points among low - income students, at a cost of $ 100 to $ 200 per student.

Schools with a large percentage of students living in low - income households also receive federal money to help with costs of teacher training, among other costs related to improving academic achievement at the schools, according to the information provided by the DPI.