Aside from the retailer's gross margin of 35%, the biggest component of cost is labor: Even when a Mille is 99% completed, the tiniest flaw can cause it to be rejected.
The result was that the cost per mile for consumers on the ethanol component of their fuel was double or even triple the cost of the gasoline component.
The study provides "strong evidence that text message reminders can be an effective, low-cost component of such a package".
LIBOR, the other component in debt cost, is at historic lows and continued loose monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks in developed economies is expected to hold it there.
The tar sands, with potentially more reserves than Saudi Arabia, have no exploration risk the oil lies just below the surface, in known areas so that eliminates a major cost component for large oil companies.
In short, if the Nokia expert is right about the low labor cost component in its products, Apple could easily raise its prices to pay those Foxconn workers a higher wage without losing market share or its gross margin.
With that in mind, any decision will invariably have cost as an important component.
Each component can be optimized for reduced cost but you have to understand the system and its various layers.
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Parent Loans to Undergraduate Students (PLUS), the fastest-growing component of college aid, will cost 8.5%, more than double the rate of two years ago.
Federal agencies are required by presidential executive order to prepare a regulatory impact assessment in support of any economically significant regulatory action, an important component of which is a benefit-cost analysis.
For example, making a component resistant to temperature changes sometimes comes at the cost of strength.
The cost of sensor technology, a common component of medical devices, has also fallen "exponentially" in recent years, according to Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization.
So, why did the company feel the need to make touch a mandatory component of Haswell-running Ultrabooks, given the added cost and power-demands associated with the hardware.
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In order to make wind energy cost-effective, one has to keep initial component costs as low as possible.
What portion of the cost is interest (the money cost) and what will you pay for the service component?
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Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.
Petrochemical plants will become cost effective competitors in the worldwide market and will be a significant component of the manufacturing investment story.
This meant a different thought process as every component in the machine had to be redesigned to provide value at a lower cost.
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George also opined that the salvage value of the component materials of the house was minimal and would be offset by the labor cost of hauling them away.
But having transplanted the heaviest and most costly component to the c, you'd wind up with only marginal improvements in cost and fuel economy, and a smaller, crummier car to put them in.
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The higher cost of financing its debt will hit the government's deficit targets, another critical component of the disinflation programme.
But that doesn't reflect the cost of internally managing and staffing a certificate authority, which usually is the most expensive component in a PKI.
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And this moral component is a critical element of the national security of democratic countries like Israel that must, at high cost, defend themselves for the indefinite future against serious military threats.
Last spring E-Trade, whose supermarket is still tiny, disquieted higher-cost rivals by announcing it would rebate up to half of the 12b-1 marketing fees (a component of some expense ratios) and other supermarket charges to customers.
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