Reportedly, Sallie had a rather extensive staff which added to her cost to the company.
"We have been prepping for a year for this at considerable financial, labor- and commitment-cost to our company, " Bowen said.
And perhaps even hire them, only to have to fire them (at a high cost to the company) within six months?
Partnering with Cingular will also take the first line of customer support out of Good's hands, reducing the cost to the company, particularly as the number of customers increases.
Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's chief, complied readily having already promised shortly after Pearl Harbor to supply every man in uniform with a five-cent bottle of Coca-Cola, no matter the cost to the company.
However, if it does, shareholders lose out: the cost to the company of buying its shares in the market is higher, sometimes much higher, than the price at which they must sell them to employees.
Perhaps, Limited Run has suggested, rivals could be using the bots to cost the company money by forcing it to pay for useless clicks.
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And there is Tobin's q, a ratio of the stockmarket value to the replacement cost of its tangible assets an attempt to measure what it would cost to recreate a company from scratch.
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If you had a personal Profit and Loss Statement that depicted the value you bring to your company and the amount you cost your company taped to your back what do you suppose it would look like?
Those funds being a good multiple of the funds that it had cost to purchase the company.
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Not every benefit or perk you offer has to cost the company money.
Although there are no hard figures yet, enabling users should translate into a significant cost savings to a company.
Eventually a firm promised green grass but was clear about the fact that it was going to cost the company some money.
The decline in service standards - which unions blame on a shortage of trained staff - are likely to cost the company dear.
But that was before the withdrawal of painkiller Vioxx opened the door to more than 11, 000 product-liability lawsuits that most analysts expect to cost the company many billions of dollars.
For one thing, the litigation and investigations will be a new expensive cost burden to the company for the next seveal years even if News Corp. were ultimately proved to be blameless.
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Though it costs an investor real money to buy options on the open market, there is no tangible cost for a company to create some options internally and then issue them to employees.
In other words, the diesel engine manufacturer must pass along the cost of the starter to the truck company, and the truck company must then pass along the cost of the engine to the final consumer.
Hockett adds that by not giving other team members an opportunity to shine, the boss is not allowing the team or company to grow, which can cost the company more money in the long run.
Staying lean through technology has amounted to cost savings, which has allowed the company to create new jobs.
In addition, some estimates put the cost of compensation to the company with the license to stage bullfights in Barcelona at more than 300 million euros.
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If a company's gross margin is falling, that could mean that the company is slashing prices (due to increased competition) or that cost of production is rising and the company can't increase prices to offset it.
The results were negatively affected by lower enrollment due to competition, and slightly higher medical cost trends, which caused the company to reduce its full-year 2012 outlook.
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She said she was initially grateful to the company for agreeing to waive the cost of her mobile phone while she was in the country and working with a nonprofit group, Color of Hope, to promote Haiti's recovery.
The after tax cost to the daughter and her company is lower and more affordable.
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However, with the iPhone doing well and Network Vision leading to cost savings, the company now sees itself exceeding the OIBDA forecast for the year on the high end.
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Thanks mainly to low overhead, tight cost controls and mass production, the company was able to keep Serum's vaccines priced lower than its competitors'.
While revenues showed a decline compared to Q4 2010, profits increased as the company continued to benefit from its cost control measures and improved content monetization.
The lack of cost cutting targets is a further negative, although we expect the company to provide further clarity around likely substantial cost reductions over the coming quarters.
Leased lines between company offices cost up to four times more than in America.
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