Sentences with phrase «rather than estimates»

What makes compare.com unique is that the insurance quotes offered on their website are accurate quotes received directly from insurance companies, rather than estimates.

Generally, the estimated costs of repairs as provided by building surveyors or experts (typically backed up by one or more quotations from repair contractors) are preferred, rather than the estimates of non-expert repair contractors.

The UK's Reedsy Reads the Receipts «Rather than the estimates and extrapolations that we get so frequently in such efforts around the independent author camp, Nataf's staff says that they have used actual, anonymized quotes that were transmitted by editors and designers to inquiring authors on their system, in order to put together some pricing averages.»

Most studies examining longer term effects of pregnancy weight gain on childhood body size typically only have measures of height and weight rather than estimates of body fat.

The idea of an independent Parliamentary Budget Office arose in late 2004 when the final outcome for the surplus for 2003 - 04 came in at $ 9.1 billion rather than the estimated $ 1.9 billion provided in the Budget.

«Our work used only an estimate of airway size and future research should use precise measurements to try and obtain an actual airway size, rather than an estimate,» he continued.

Rather than estimating networks from individuals and then averaging them, we estimate networks at the epileptic and control group levels by using all the data at once.

In the spirit of my analogy, they are talking about changing the estimated weight of the rats rather than the estimated displacement of the platform.

This is the claim from a new crop of so - called lifestyle DNA tests — genetic tests that, rather than estimate your risk of developing various diseases, provide clues regarding your nutrition, fitness, sleep, even your taste in wine.

The Quantitative Value approach by Tobias Carlisle and Wes Grey also uses a ranking system rather than estimating fair values.

Similar to a normal fixed fee, the only difference with a per project or time period fixed fee is that you are breaking down the project into smaller chunks or time periods rather than estimating the total fee upfront.

State Farm's «Drive Safe and Save» rating program establishes auto insurance rates based on actual mileage driven rather than estimated mileage.

Although the study by Beekman et al differs from several others in that it is primarily concerned with assessing the performance of a screening test rather than estimating rates of depression, the scale's validity might be questioned if the rates differed wildly between studies.

Not exact matches

«Rather than someone telling them, «Hey, we want you to build this table as fast as you can,» we were saying, «We have 40 hours in the estimate.»»

Estimated payments: Gig workers often need to make quarterly estimated tax payments throughout the year rather than wait until Estimated payments: Gig workers often need to make quarterly estimated tax payments throughout the year rather than wait until estimated tax payments throughout the year rather than wait until April 15.

Michael Book, a senior partner with the Boston Consulting Group's Dusseldorf office who has advised postal services across Europe, warns that letter and admail revenues have tended to drop more precipitously than previously estimated, meaning those looming projected losses could come sooner rather than later.

Outside estimates of pass - through business income have shown that it is a small number of large businesses that account for the majority of pass - through profits and economic activity, rather than true mom - and - pops.

Uber last fall shut down a vehicle leasing business targeting their drivers when the company found it lost $ 9000 per car rather than the $ 500 it has estimated.

Taking his bank bonuses in Scotia equity, rather than cash, he's built up a sizable personal stake in the company worth $ 34.5 million in shares and deferred share units, plus options worth another estimated $ 48 million.

Then last February, the governing Liberals created a new regulation to ensure producers pay a lump sum for the actual cost of waste disposal, rather than a projected per - unit cost estimated by Stewardship Ontario.

Be realistic about financial estimates and projections: «When you present a plan to bankers and financiers, or even to your employees, people will get way more excited about what's real rather than some huge thing that's never going to happen,» says Ciccarelli.

A major question is how plausible its economists» estimates are on key parts of its theory: how many of company A's customers would drop their cable subscription without Turner's networks, how many would switch to DirectTV (rather than just cutting the cord), and how profitable would the new customers be.

Scott Laine, a 48 - year - old real - estate executive told Business Insider that he saved an estimated $ 200 using Roadie rather than a traditional shipping company when he sent his Vespa from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Drama queen conclusion, including what appear to be rather over-the-top estimates by JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank: More than 13,000 banking jobs are on their way out of London because of Brexit!

The midpoint estimate, which uses rather charitable assumptions of 0.50 % annual employment growth and 2.24 % annual nominal wage growth, and a far more generous splitting methodology than that used by the NDP, I get an estimate of 33,065 workers covered by the $ 15 minimum wage proposal, less than 1 / 3rd of the 100,000 worker claim.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

The method employed by the IRS used to estimate the total amount of underreported income of all nonfarm sole proprietorships, or gross tax gap, rather than the average amount of underreporting of households led by unincorporated self - employed individuals.

We estimate that nearly half of our sellers find us and sign up, rather than us finding them, adding efficiency to our sales and marketing efforts.

The chart shows estimates by the International Monetary Fund of output gaps and credit gaps during that period; while such estimates are obviously imprecise, they suggest that in most of those countries, inflation targeting and financial stability may have been complementary, rather than conflicting goals.

We estimate that, to date, nearly half of our sellers have found us and signed up, rather than us having found them, adding efficiency to our sales and marketing efforts.

Second, Europe issues significantly fewer bonds than the U.S. Citi estimates the ECB could source up to 89 % of their bond purchases from existing holders rather than from new issuances.

By July an estimated $ 250,000 a day was flowing into his firm, mainly from small investors who let their book credits build up rather than taking out their money.

Debt, in this case, must be rising faster than debt servicing capacity, in which case Beijing's true debt level is not the nominal debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investment.

Research indicates, for instance, that companies with majority (rather than plurality) voting for directors are more apt to adopt shareholder proposals that garner majority support, and that many chief financial officers are willing to forgo investments in projects expected to be profitable in the longer term in order to meet analysts» quarterly earnings estimates.

Rather than counting calories or estimating macros, Menud goes straight to the source... the professionals that do this really well!»

Living Goods» estimates of number of children under 5 per CHP only use results from Living Goods» network, rather than incorporating results from BRAC's network.

Valuation — with regards to valuation of the company at $ 240 per share, this includes valuing the business at $ 216 per share (at 18x our FY 2016 earnings estimate of $ 12 per share) plus net cash per share of $ 24 ($ 150 billion of net cash less the tax effect on international cash for repatriation, which we estimate to ultimately be 6 %, and for simplicity purposes, apply to all cash on balance sheet rather than just the international cash).

Additional stabilization from unemployment insurance, although smaller in total magnitude than that from the tax system, is estimated to be eight times as effective per dollar of lost revenue because more of the money is spent rather than saved.

Rather than forecasting how fast a company's earnings will grow, look to estimate the growth rates that are implied by the current share price.

And with real exports of goods growing in Q3 at about a third of the pace estimated by the BEA, and real imports of goods growing faster in the quarter than what the agency had anticipated, it seems that trade may have been a drag on the economy in Q3 rather than a contributor as depicted in last week's GDP report.

By CBO's estimate, making Social Security solvent would substantially slow debt growth, leading it to rise to 111 percent of GDP after three decades rather than 150 percent.

This is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market Bass - rated bonds are the lowest quality bonds that are considered investment - grade, rather than high - yield.

This new calculation now implies that a 1 - point change in the corporate tax rate would change corporate tax revenues by only $ 1.3 billion, rather than the original estimate of $ 1.7 billion.

I also used very conservative assumptions where appropriate since I'd much rather be wrong on the low side than wrong on the high side when estimating net worth.

It puts into perspective how much you want to live on each year, rather than dangling a huge total nest egg estimate in front of you.

More important, the previous two months of employment gains were revised upwards: February job growth was estimated to be 332,000 rather than 268,000, and March job growth was revised from 88,000 to 138,000.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

It has been estimated that toward the close of the Middle Ages, England and Wales, with a population of about two and a half million, had 400 grammar schools - a rather better provision than in Victorian England.

The mistaken estimate that happiness can exclude growth or that survival itself can obtain by negating creative change is itself based on a mistaken definition of the self as analogous to a substance that reaches identity and survival through exclusion, rather than through relational expansion.

The extremely powerful significance with which the event of the Exodus is charged in the narrative accurately and appropriately reflects Israel's rather than Egypt's estimate.