Sentences with phrase «than the cost of»

Ask, «If I had 10 less hours of low - value work each week, could I fill this time with higher value activities that would be worth more than the cost of an assistant?»

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

As long as the provinces» spending is generating economic growth at a faster rate than their cost of borrowing, they are doing the right thing.

All for less than the cost of building a hull and onboard equipment.»

Given a choice between shortage and rationing that comes with it, and shelling out less than the cost of a cup of Starbucks every week, most people are unlikely to object.

Running a business entails offsetting unnecessary costs - and the cost of maintaining something that works is much less than the cost of replacing the entire thing.

They can help create a name often for less than the cost of purchasing a mediocre domain name.

The Fourth of July is the country's top beer - drinking holiday with more than $ 1 billion spent on cold brews last year alone — more than the cost of burgers and hot dogs combined.

A parking space in Park Slope, Brooklyn, recently sold for a whopping $ 300,000 — more than the cost of a condo in some parts of the U.S..

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.»

The cost of cultivating a repeat customer is almost always lower than the cost of attracting a new one.

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

Honda keeps sending me letters offering to update the built - in GPS for $ 150, which is more than the cost of a new GPS, even if my phone didn't do GPS, which it does.

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.

«[I] t appears that the effort to restructure the Medicaid program will have the effect of making significant reductions in a program that provides services to our most vulnerable populations, and already pays providers significantly less than the cost of providing care,» wrote AHA president and CEO Richard Pollack.

Increasing your average order value will lead to higher margins, all else staying the same, because the cost of revenue for one customer who spends $ 100 is lower than the cost of revenue for five customers who spend $ 20 each.

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.

And since the cost of becoming a franchisor is often less than the cost of opening one more location (or entering one more market), your startup risk is greatly reduced.

This means that as a franchisor, not only do you need far less capital with which to expand, but your risk is largely limited to the capital you invest in developing your franchise company — an amount that is often less than the cost of opening one additional company - owned location.

When investors buy call contracts, they are hoping the stock will rise above the strike price by more than the cost of the trade.

Case in point: a family that used to spend hundreds per month going out to the movies can now binge - watch all four seasons of House of Cards on Netflix in 30 days for less than the cost of a large popcorn.

If you need to print brochures, giant spreadsheets or other presentations that are too big for your standard printer to handle, the HP Officejet 7000 offers big, low - cost prints — up to 13 by 19 inches — for less than the cost of an all - in - one printer.

Musk has also said the cost would be comparable or a little higher than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

RingCentral Office offers a feature rich, business class VoIP phone system for far less than the cost of a traditional phone system.

In today's new normal, the costs to the economy of greater - than - expected strength in demand are likely to be lower than the costs of significant unexpected weakness.

And, Sperling's points out the cost of living here is more than 65 percent cheaper than the cost of living in the Big Apple.

The goal for Netflix is that it can get enough consumers hooked, and make enough from subscriptions, to make more money than the cost of serving up a nearly endless well of (hopefully quality) content.

Second, assume that the bad debt generated by the system (by which I mean the excess portion of any debt used to fund projects that add less value to the economy than the cost of the project) is not written down within the reporting period in which it was extended.

Debt can be a terrible thing if not handled properly because it introduces payments that include interest, which is really nothing more than the cost of «renting» money.

Suffice it to say, it is much cheaper than the cost of insuring a house ($ 952).

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.

This scenario occurs when a customer's value is less than the cost of acquiring that customer, which could mean your business model isn't viable.

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.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

Were corporate tax rates to be reduced in the U.S., banks may even start earning more than their cost of capital.

A firm can not remain in business selling its goods for less than the cost of production.

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.

I love a great real estate deal, for example, where I can buy a high quality home for less than the cost of its construction.

Another example is that the housing component of inflation in the U.S. is based on imputed rent rather than the cost of purchasing a house.

# 0,38 would most likely be much less than the cost of processing your loan.

Paying fines less than cost of healthcare.

This work, in 1997, led rice producers to «block» their rice, to refuse to deliver it to the national collection company which was buying a kilo of rice at a price lower than the cost of production at 112 francs CFA.

The costs per inhabitant would be far less than the costs of the planned cities now being erected or the conventional rebuilding that is always going on in our cities.

The second company is paying for its continuing pollution and therefore has an incentive to improve when the cost of doing so is less than the cost of buying extra permits.

The money they've already spent preparing a lawsuit is probably more than the cost of keeping a cross in a museum forever.

Abortion is much cheaper than the cost of caring for a person for their entire life, and drug addicts and people with loose morals who get STDs should be punished too.

Guess what, alot of those Catholics wind up cost the taxpayer more than the cost of birth control.

I think using fruit as part of your diet is more important than the cost of what you use to juice it

She paid three times more in postage than the cost of the cookies.