Two leading advisors to major law firms predicted a declining demand for legal services, a 15 % drop in net income from 2008, the inability to raise rates, additional layoffs, salary freezes and cost cutting, heavier fee discounting, expenses rising
faster than revenues — and a long wait for better times.
That is because, he said, its costs started rising
faster than revenues — most notably those from the school's biggest asset, the land under the Chrysler Building, which now generates $ 27 million a year.
The number reflects several factors: expenses that have risen
faster than revenues, a growing administrative staff, disappointing fund - raising drives and, most significantly, $ 10 million a year in payments on a $ 175 million loan the school took out a few years ago, in part so that it could invest money in the stock market.
But earnings per share and dividend grew a lot
faster than revenues.
To achieve annual balance, the «tough» task of state policymakers is simply to keep spending rising
no faster than these revenues.
'' «A growing percentage of our colleges and universities are in real financial trouble,» the financial consulting firm Bain & Company concluded in a report — one - third of them, to be exact, according to Bain, which found that these institutions» operating costs are rising
faster than revenues and investment returns can cover them.»
For companies that have seen sales, general, administrative, or other costs expand
faster than revenues, and been unable to tame increases using more mainstream techniques such as outsourcing, zero - based budgeting offers the prospect of identifying waste, focusing attention on business strategy, and targeting resources to key goals.
While ININ operated in the cloud based services industry, its profitability fell below many competitors, and worst of all, its costs were growing significantly
faster than revenues.
In other words, he claims that B of A can keep growing — and keep in mind that operating leverage should keep profits growing far
faster than revenues — without without any boost from retained earnings.
Is it fair to say that the game is to cut costs
faster than revenue declines and --
This was unusual and excellent, but we do expect channel operating income to grow
faster than revenue growth, and that will drive margin expansion as we move into 2017.
Those results are solid given the volatility in the global economy, and we remain confident that our earnings will grow
faster than revenue over the long - term.
Operating income growing
faster than revenue reflects Amazon's expanding operating margin, which is being driven by increased operational efficiencies in North America and AWS, its cloud - computing service business.
It grew
faster than revenue, reflecting Amazon's expanding operating margin, which is driven by increased operational efficiencies.
The firm's ability to grow NOPAT
faster than revenue can be credited to margin improvement.
The kicker in the analysis is that credit costs are also likely to rise
faster than either revenue or pre-tax earnings, adding an additional headwind to financials as 2018 unfolds.
We saw some of that effect this past quarter as contribution margins grew
faster than revenue in both of U.S. Silica's business segments.
While a $ 1.2 billion budget sounds big, expenses within MPS have been going up
faster than revenue.
Not exact matches
The media industry is on some pretty shaky ground these days, with advertising
revenue and readers both disappearing
faster than an ice cream cone on a July afternoon.
And though the firm is still unprofitable,
revenue has been rising
faster than expenses, up about 49 % to $ 168 million, while spending jumped 29 % to $ 134 million.
It's definitely a high valuation level but we believe Salesforce can drive significant
revenue synergies and help the MuleSoft business achieve $ 1 billion in
revenue much
faster than it could on a standalone basis,» Tillman said in a note Wednesday.
Client
revenue is also growing
faster than the industry trend, with 80 % of the growth coming from existing clients.
But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing
faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of
revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.
On average, degree - holding CEOs grew
revenues 63 %
faster than the unschooled on the list.
Today, DivaCup leads the category, having grown
revenues more
than 700 % in the last five years and landing at No. 103 on the PROFIT 500, our ranking of Canada's
Fastest - Growing Companies.
Companies that adequately trained their sales managers saw their
revenue grow 9 percent
faster than those that didn't.
This gap in effectiveness may matter more
than you think because the research also found that companies reporting effective pipeline management saw
revenue grow 15 percent
faster than their ineffective peers.
Last quarter it grew 19 percent year over year,
faster than any other category, as the App Store logged its highest - ever
revenue amid game craze «Pokemon Go.»
«The confidence number suggests that businesses are continuing to see their margins get squeezed, and their costs are going up
faster than top - line
revenue,» says Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist for Wells Fargo Securities.
The Hoosier State is home to three of this year's
fastest - growing African American - led companies, which had combined
revenue of more
than $ 49 million in 2014 alone.
A look at the 11 big U.S. companies with the best 5 - year
revenue growth, including two that grew even
faster than Apple.
Fuel theft is
fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more
than $ 1 billion in annual
revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.
In our new book, A Great Place to Work For All, we discovered that organizations that foster the most consistently great experience across all demographic groups grow
revenue three times
faster than their less inclusive counterparts.
The
fast - food giant reported higher earnings and
revenue in the first quarter
than Wall Street analysts had expected.
Today, the company generates more
revenue per restaurant
than any other
fast - food chain.
While most of our initial clients have been businesses with annual sales of $ 50,000 to $ 250,000, BlueVine has started serving more
fast - growing companies with annual
revenue of more
than $ 1 million.
But in general, if a
fast - track budget bill contains a provision that doesn't have anything to do with federal
revenue and spending
than it's probably «extraneous.»
While soccer only represented 10 % of Nike's business for the last fiscal year — much less
than running and basketball — it was one of the
faster growing parts of the business, with wholesale
revenue rising 18 %.
Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost
revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much
faster process
than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.
In fact, fifty - one percent of global marketing executives point to video over other types of content for best return on investment and marketers who use video grow
revenue forty - nine percent
faster than non-video users.
Shares of the world's biggest
fast food chain by
revenue rose more
than 5 percent as global same - restaurant sales topped Wall Street forecasts, driven by the strength in mature markets especially the United Kingdom and Germany.
Health care
revenues are already growing more
than eight times as
fast as the overall economy, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Last year, ad
revenue fell 3.4 %, despite a rise in digital ad
revenues, because print
revenue is declining
faster than digital
revenue can fill the gap.
Our most recent research shows companies that rate most highly according to our new «For All» standard grow
revenue three times
faster than their less - inclusive rivals.
While it's true that Twitter and Facebook are expected to grow
revenue much
faster than Google, the difference in valuation is hard to ignore.
Maybe the equity isn't growing exactly at the same rate as
revenue growth, but it's certainly growing
faster than 15 % a year.
The payout level considered a balanced view of performance, including financial results lower
than planned, but strong growth in strategic imperatives
revenue, leading to a
faster remix towards the business portfolio of the future while also progressing the core portfolio of systems and services.
A
faster than expected downturn in print advertising and slower increase in digital
revenues, combined with the costs of international expansion, means that the company's outgoings have outpaced
revenues over the past five years.
This has enabled Box to achieve negative churn: in all of its cohorts the company is increasing its
revenue - per - user by a
faster rate
than it is losing users overall, which means
revenue - per - cohort increases over time.
Unless she's still waving a protest sign against the 1995 Ralph Klein revolution cuts, she's misrepresenting the record of all the Tory premiers that followed, who expanded the public sector
faster than oil
revenues allowed, creating the deficit mess she inherited.