Sentences with phrase «treated as a profit center»

«Minors shouldn't be tracked or used as guinea pigs, with their data treated as a profit center.

Overhead of 20 % will work if you treat them as profit centers instead of overhead or cost centers, which you should.

Not exact matches

-- There would be lack of city control over improvements in and around Soldier Field, which the agreement treats more «as profit centers for the park district rather than enhanced park and recreational facilities.

The hotel provided a complimentary mobile phone that guests could use to place local and long distance calls at no charge (a trend I've observed at several properties recently and a pleasant departure from how hotels used to treat in - room phones as major profit centers).

Nearly two years ago, I posted that bar rules allowing firms to mark up the cost of U.S. - based contract lawyers without disclosure gave firms incentive to treat contract lawyers as profit centers, and discouraged them from offshoring document review, because in that situation firms would be required to disclose their markup to clients.

Treating each associate as a separate profit center goes beyond the desk - cost approach by identifying variable as well as fixed costs.