Sentences with phrase «for back of the envelope»

In normal situations, you may not find the need to calculate total equity from debt to equity ratio, but this is good to know for back of the envelope calculations or accuracy checking your analysis.

Thank you for the back of the envelope reference.

However, for back of envelope purposes, current global production is ~ 32,500 tonnes pa; reserves stand at 14 million tonnes; and «resources» are estimated at about 50 million tonnes.

Check out the rest of Robert Rapier's post for a back of the envelope calculation on land use with cellulosic ethanol production:

Not exact matches

Big Bang means getting to an idea or start - up company at the beginning, exchanging industrial - design services for equity at the garage or even the back - of - the - envelope stage.

A useful business plan can be any length, from that scrawl on the back of an envelope to more than 100 pages for an especially detailed plan describing a complex enterprise.

Without further details, it's difficult for experts and shareholders to surmise the exact nature of the deal beyond back - of - the - envelope calculations.

A generous back - of - the - envelope estimate is that Hugh Hefner is worth $ 26 million, not accounting for price fluctuations in Hefner's stock market and bond investments.

A back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that even if Sanders has been contributing just 3 % of his salary per year for his entire time in both the House and the Senate — and has earned a modest 5 % annualized rate of return — he'd have accumulated almost half a million dollars by the end of 2015, thanks in part to the government's matching contributions.

So, my back - of - envelope number is probably too low for that reason.

My back - of - the - envelope calculation (that's the technical term for a fair guess) is that demand exceeds supply by as much as $ 1 trillion to $ 2 trillion a year.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).

A little tired of the log cabin, I pieced and quilted them differently, and added envelope closure in the back for easy removal and washing.

Can you even begin to do the back of the envelope math for how many times you've bathed, diapered, and sunscreened your kids?

Back of the envelope calculations using the advertised levy rates for commercial and private vehicles (from 20 for private cars all the way to 200 GHS for heavy duty trucks), show that RSML could make $ 50 million dollars a year (ignoring surcharges) should they succeed in ensuring a 75 % fee payment compliance rate among motorists.

Walker raised prodigious amounts for his GOP club while he oversaw millions in county contracts, and all we know are the murky details of him allegedly taking $ 5,000 stuffed in an envelope in Indiana and later trying to give it back at a Hicksville park.

So, if you're expecting a $ 15 million dollar race, a decent back - of - the - envelope budget would be to budget $ 10.5 million for voter contact, and if you wanted to divide your spending up like a commercial marketer, you'd earmark about $ 2.3 million of that for digital.

Jeremy Corbyn's proposal that a third of the SC could be elected by the members is, in my view, just another back of an envelope idea for which no serious rationale has been offered.

Now, flailing around for an answer on energy, Cameron announces a back - of - the - envelope plan to «roll back» green levies (60 per cent of which were introduced by his own government).

On Thursday, however, Mangano appeared to be angry as he looked toward Singh, slowly rocking back and forth in his seat as Singh testified that Mangano came to see him one night, asking Singh to swap bills in an envelope of cash Mangano had received from a contractor for a different stack of bills.

The back of the envelope calculation below (click the graphic to enlarge it for easier reading) outlines how the kind of civil service recruitment freeze suggested by John Redwood could save about # 6bn a year by its third year of operation...

As I sat up waiting for him, I scribbled the mileage and the upfront costs of his journey on the back of an envelope.

Using back - of - the - envelope calculations of how air and heat flow through structures, he argues that fires with those proportions produce the hottest flames for their volume of fuel.

The new estimate of mortality from windows, based on statistical analysis of 23 local studies, comes close to an old estimate (100 million to 1 billion) that had been derided for its simple, back - of - the - envelope approach.

Would any of your findings put these made on the back of an envelope calculations for Antarctica's contribution to SLR in doubt?

As TC / HDL and SBP aren't remotely independent, just adding them would yield an overestimate of their aggregate effects, but this is a just back of the envelope guestimate for how much Cox risk adjustments would effect the outcomes.

The envelope contains an extremely valuable ticket that will pay for the safe passage of his girlfriend's roommate's son (keep up at the back) from China to the US.

If one calculates these percentage increases as national income projections over an 80 - year period (providing for a 20 - year delay before any school reform is completed and the newly proficient students begin their working careers), a back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests gains of nothing less than $ 75 trillion over the period.

If we do some back - of - the - envelope math and average the state's and the Ingersoll estimates together, it means that 85,000 current Illinois teachers will leave the profession in the next ten years with little retirement savings to show for their experience.

(His back - of - the - envelope calculation is roughly $ 20 million for each of two Cup cars, $ 10 million for each of four Indy cars, and $ 4 million for the sports car program.

A brief test drive with the owner up in Norfolk surprised me as it felt substantially perkier than the first car I drove and it was in tidy condition for a 70,000 - miler with a full service history and loads of receipts.This car had cost its original owner well north of # 50K with all the options but I managed to haggle the price down to # 11K (with the help of an envelope of readies) and was grinning all the way back down south.

Our back - of - envelope calculations suggest the number of vehicles in Australia recalled for Takata airbags is now approaching 1.6 million cars.

As best I can tell, the Howey model of author earnings is at best quick, back - of - the - envelope calculation, which is at best useful for an order of magnitude estimate.

I did a few back - of - the - envelope calculations a couple of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.

This implied a back - of - the - envelope portfolio return of about 12.5 % per year going forward, and for much of the 1980s and 1990s that proved to be a conservative estimate.

For the most part the «back - of - the - envelope» calculations are good enough, however it never hurts to dive in and take a detailed look at your progress and investment goals and see what gap needs to be covered.

Based on that information, they can give you a back of the envelope estimate on rates for the loan types you're interested in.

Just be warned, as I walk through a few back - of - the - envelope calculations, the pickings are slim for risk - averse investors.

It's difficult to say for sure without some heavy duty number crunching, but a little back of the envelope work provides approximate result.

The back - of - the - envelope calculation is how much (or whether) the return on the outside investment, less the capital gains tax you owe on it, exceeds the interest rate on the mortgage, after accounting for the mortgage interest deduction.

Rules of thumbs can be useful for back - of - the - envelopes calculations, but should not be used for divorce settlement calculations, as they are rarely correct.

When I do that (in my back - of - the envelope way, mind you) I come up with a MAXIMUM value at year - end 2012 for Enzon's Pegintron royalty stream of under $ 60 million.

In practice, I have a «back of the envelope» feel for how loose or tight capital is at firms that I analyze.

My back of the envelope calculations for Telstra's estimated intrinsic value is between $ 3.30 and 3.50.

Abel leaves notes on the backs of envelopes for her current husband: «Jack — this is yesterday's coffee — in this cup — Also please take 2 large dead dogs today Thanks Love U»; «Hope you feel better today.

For some of our recommended charities, we believe that a back - of - the - envelope calculation of their cost effectiveness would be too speculative to feature in our review or to include as a significant factor in our evaluation of their effectiveness.

Indeed, her survey of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent of the pet cat population — which, if one does a back - of - the - envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.

Mark Powell is known for his portraits and illustrations of people and birds on vintage envelopes dating as far back as 1756, and with his most recent series, the images do not disappoint.

Out of sympathy for the shelterers, Moore does not make any direct sketches underground, instead taking descriptive notes on the back of an envelope before returning to his studio to draw from memory.