Sentences with phrase «greater than the costs»

University of Alberta business professor Andrew Leach says that even absent new pipelines, a long - term differential greater than the cost of moving barrels by rail «doesn't make economic sense.»

Your return policy should result in an increase in sales greater than the cost of returns, restocking, and other costs.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

If the sum of the expected cash flow (on a discounted basis) you'd be giving up for an equity investment are greater than the costs of the debt, then you are better off getting debt.

If the selling price is greater than the cost price, a profit produced.

Mr. Buffett reimburses Berkshire for these costs by making an annual payment to Berkshire in an amount that is equal to or greater than the costs that Berkshire has incurred on his behalf.

If there is no impediment to new supply of what you sell competition among suppliers will cause price to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital.

Competition between restaurants will tend to cause retail prices to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital, despite the drop in wholesale food costs.

If your interest rate is too high, that payment may be greater than the cost of your premium, and you would be better off with a single mortgage.

However, if the Government were to charge a fee significantly greater than the cost of the service, the amount of the excess would be deemed a tax and under current legislation, the excess revenues would not be permitted.

The basic concept of LTV > CPA (lifetime value greater than cost to acquire) is pretty simple.

Furthermore, we believe the time burden in preparing all of these materials to be significantly greater than these costs may indicate.

There is great cost in following Jesus, but the blessings are greater than the cost.

Indeed, it would not make much sense at all if the incremental benefits from devolution were little greater than the cost of its collection, challenging one of the key principles of taxation, the canon of economy, espoused by Scotland's own Adam Smith.

Nevertheless, the political benefits were much greater than the costs to his base support.

President Obama seems to understand that what happens in Syria can not be tolerated anymore, and that potential cost of inaction may be in the long - run far greater than a cost of a skilfully conducted intervention.

«There was vociferous rejection of the initial proposals particularly from smaller businesses for whom the removal of the UK VAT exemption would have defeated the very point of MOSS, since the amount of VAT they would pay on their domestic turnover would likely have been greater than the cost of the services they would provide in another state.

It's that the costs of using renewable energy are still far greater than the cost of using fossil fuel in the vast majority of applications...

«The benefits are just fractionally greater than the cost.

In a 2017 government - issued analysis, benefits to rescind the rule were found to be greater than costs, results that conflict with a similar analysis made in 2015 under the Obama Administration.

According to a recent article in The Lancet, «virtually all published analyses that have compared the cost of screening of patients on admission and using contact precautions with colonized patients» show that «the costs of caring for patients who become infected with MRSA are much greater than the costs of screening programs.»

«The cost of taking the time to identify the gender of mates or the cost of hesitation appears to be greater than the cost of making some mistakes.»

«The reverberations of fraud throughout the research community might even be greater than the cost of the retracted research itself,» the authors noted.

These benefits are likely greater than the cost of reducing GHGs in 2050.»

The social, economic and personal costs of the diseases that embryonic stem cells have the potential to treat are greater than the costs associated with the destruction of embryos.

But the benefits would be many times greater than the cost.

For example, students with profound autism would receive more funding than students with dyslexia, because the costs associated with educating a student with autism is greater than the costs associated with educating a student with dyslexia.

But if broad public services such as universal preschool provide economic benefits greater than costs, then this is too narrow a view.

A recent study of Boston's universal pre-K program provides additional evidence that pre-K programs have benefits greater than costs for children from middle - class families.

States save money when the variable cost of each student to the district schools is greater than the cost of the voucher, accounting for the students who would have attended private school anyway.

Despite the challenges of implementing the reforms suggested, the cost of inaction is greater than the cost of action.

Provide them with incentive to buy your book by offering them other products or services that have a value much greater than the cost of your book itself.

Re piracy, the main challenge of content producers is pricing it such that the cost represented by the effort of pirating it (for the majority of customers) is greater than the cost paid in money.

As self - publishing guru Dan Poynter notes in his Self Publishing Manual, for a customer to buy your book at any price, they must believe the value of the book is greater than the cost of the book.

If your interest rate is too high, that payment may be greater than the cost of your premium, and you would be better off with a single mortgage.

The debt used in buyouts has a relatively fixed cost, so if a private equity fund's return on assets (ROA) is greater than this cost, the fund's return on equity (ROE) is higher than if it hadn't borrowed money.

I don't follow the numbers in your example, but the fundamental question you're asking is, «If I can borrow money for a low cost, and if I think I can invest it and receive returns greater than that cost, should I do it?»

Depending on the strike price that you choose, it's possible to enter this position at a net credit (due to the premium for writing the call being greater than the cost of the put).

Of course later, the property might become profitable, either because revenue is greater than cost, or because there is a balance sheet accounting profit due to appreciation, and thus your income might now be 150K (net 99K).

For most people, at some age (generally > 50), the expected insurance value of the mortality credits (your longevity insurance) becomes greater than the cost for some piece of their portfolio.

* The value of energy saved must be greater than the cost of improvements, according to FHA guidelines.

Leverage is sensible when used to buy a fairly stable asset with expected returns greater than the cost of debt (e.g., commercial rental property) and I like your example of using leverage to expand your asset base to achieve diversification (and perhaps reduce net risk).

For example, corporations borrow money to buy assets when they expect a return on those assets that is greater than the cost of borrowing.

You might have to pay a fee to transfer your debt but, if you're currently paying a high rate of interest, the saving you make by shifting your debt is likely to be greater than the cost of the fee.

If they don't invest a lot for the long - term, it may just be that there aren't many attractive long - term investments capable of providing returns greater than the cost of longer term capital needed to finance the investments.

The annual cost of owning a property, be it a house or a condo, is usually greater than the cost of renting, after taxes.»

This equation is made by calculating the sum of the monthly payment savings that can be realized by refinancing into a new mortgage at a lower interest rate and determining the month in which that cumulative sum of monthly payment savings is greater than the costs of refinancing.

Successful day traders will hone in on times when there is enough volatility and volume to generate earnings greater than the cost of the spread and / or commission.

The question then really becomes whether over time the resultant appreciation in value is greater than the cost of the maintenance.

If the interest savings from insurance or another form of credit enhancement are not greater than the cost of such credit enhancement, the issuer will generally choose to issue bonds without third - party enhancement.