Sentences with phrase «fixed costs of any business»

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Because regulatory compliance has a high fixed cost, small businesses face a larger per - employee cost of adhering to government regulations than big companies.

• Semi-variable costs are fixed costs that can be variable when influenced by volume of business.

For small - business people who mostly work at home or on the road, office space «is now a variable cost instead of a fixed cost.

It allows you to expand capacity without having to formally hire large numbers of new staff; without having to invest in new capital equipment, without leasing a larger commercial space; and without having to invest in development costs for non-core parts of your business, increasing your fixed overhead.

The cost of buying business equipment usually is deducted by claiming a depreciation allowance (fixed by law) over five or seven years, or longer periods.

Nokia, which closed its 15.6 billion euro acquisition of Alcatel Lucent in January, is looking to stronger growth in fixed line equipment from the recently acquired business, as well as 900 million euros in cost savings through 2018 to help it shore up profits in the near - to medium - term.

With debt financing, the fixed repayment schedule and the high cost of loan repayment can make it difficult for a business to expand while with equity financing, money is invested in the business in exchange for equity - there is no fixed repayment schedule and investors generally have a long term goal of return on investment.

That's Netflix's business model in a nutshell: building scale on top of fixed costs and hoping that the growth of the former continues to outpace the growth of the latter.

The movements in fixed housing and small business lending rates over this period have been broadly consistent with the movements in banks» costs of funding these loans.

And many of those relationships investment banks have worked so hard for have proven to be less lucrative especially compared to the growing fixed costs of supporting them... In the marketable securities portfolio, do you feel good about the going forward prospects of the investment banking companies, especially as Wells Fargo moves into that business?

Since then, fixed business rates have increased, though by less than the rise in the cost of funding these loans.

Debt Financing — The use of repayable funds to support the growth of the company; small business loans and other interest - bearing loans are common forms of debt financing, and create a certain amount of financial risk for the company in the form of new fixed costs.

Lion chief executive Stuart Irvine said on Monday that the size and the fixed cost base of the Australian wine business meant that it didn't stack up on a return on investment basis compared with other opportunities in beer and cider where Lion has a much bigger business.

«The more businesses spend on fixed costs, such as labor, the less they have available for profit or expanding or things of the sort.

Supporting commercial lines businesses Progress on fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards.

«The other side of the aisle has a lot of ideas on how to fix the problem through raising taxes on businesses, but that has a cost in jobs and growth,» he said.

Second, many costs that businesses might view as variable are in essence fixed within schools and districts because of regulations and teacher contracts.

Type of business organisation: sole proprietors, partnerships, private limited companies, public limited companies, multinationals, co-operatives, public corporations, labour - intensive and capital - intensive, difference between production and productivity, Total and average cost, fixed and variable cost, average and total revenue, aims of business organisations, Perfect competition and Monopoly (advantages and disadvantages), Different sizes of firms (Integrations), Economies and diseconomies of scale.

Growing up in a boom / bust cycle imprinted itself on me, giving me a visceral sense of capitalism and business before I could intellectually understand ideas like profit / loss and return on investment, or fixed and variable costs.

Its fixed, five - year cost of ownership is the best in the business.

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

With debt financing, the fixed repayment schedule and the high cost of loan repayment can make it difficult for a business to expand while with equity financing, money is invested in the business in exchange for equity - there is no fixed repayment schedule and investors generally have a long term goal of return on investment.

This type of thinking fundamentally ignores the high fixed cost business model and the general history that Ford possesses.

Business's cost of production can be either fixed or variable.

Without trying to sound crass of course ROE will continue at it's current level he is buying a railroad (high fixed cost business and a monopoly) it's not like someone is going build a competeing railroad in the same area there will only ever be one and it will always be cheaper than trucking or shipping by air.

With opportunistic holdings we are often invested in falling knives or businesses that risk bankruptcy due to large amounts of debt, high fixed costs or turnaround situations.

Or small companies where much of the fixed cost, i.e. HQ expense, obscures the profitability of its underlying business — how much is such a company worth if / when revenue growth drops to the bottom line, or an acquirer comes along?!

When a business has a high debt to equity ratio, it has imposed on itself a large block of fixed cost in the form of interest expense, which increases its breakeven point.

Because of the high contribution margins in this largely fixed cost business, revenue increases will drive large free cash flow and value growth.

It's a very tough business because the marginal cost of a seat is practically nothing, you have these huge fixed costs and if you take one more person on board there's virtually no cost to it, so you're very tempted to sell that last seat too cheap, and if you sell the last seat too cheap it becomes the first seat in a way... the hope is that they keep orders [of aircraft] in reasonable relationship to potential demand and lately they've been operating at 80 % [load factors] for a while.

Institutional equity finance is also difficult to access: most venture capitalists and many business angels will not invest in games because of high risk levels, low knowledge levels about the industry and high, largely fixed costs of due diligence relative to the amount of equity sought.

Scaling offshore wind to deliver further cost reduction and create new business opportunities will require similar support to develop the technology that can enable penetration of offshore wind in new markets — both fixed and floating.

A characteristic of a law firm's business model is the fixed nature of the costs.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

For those who want to start a business, we offer a variety of fixed - cost start - up business packages, including incorporating a business and drafting key documents.

Whether your home or business fix - it projects are simple or ongoing, this type of service agreement helps ensure that you and your contractor see eye to eye on the project, cost and timeline specifics.

The business charges a fixed fee for its services and promises a cost reduction of 35 per cent.

This decentralised business model means «virtual» law firms have lower fixed costs, and lawyers therefore tend to be paid a higher proportion of the fees they make than in traditional firms where they are likely to be salaried.

And it may only have begun: recall the NYT review of Free that noted: it can be extremely hard to survive in a business with high fixed costs, low marginal costs and relatively easy entry.

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Take the cost to acquire the goods (without co-op agents selling your MLS listings, perhaps they would never sell and this is in fact «a cost») away from the gross dollars coming in, before you do any other calculations, (of course after co-op fees are paid) they are part of trust funds and can not be allotted to any other category, even so they appear on the Balance Sheet as a payable) because those costs are in fact fixed expenses, and must be deducted from gross BRANCH income before anything else, making the co-op dollars, in fact, part of the cost of doing business.

One of the biggest hurdles and perceived obstacles for beginning investors who are interested in getting started in the fix and flip business, is the cost of the money itself.

«We believe the negotiation of a fixed - cost settlement clearly outweighs the potential expense and distraction of a drawn - out litigation process, enabling us to focus on the execution of our proven business strategy,» said Michael Weil, CEO of RCS Capital, in a statement.