We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.
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For the past 20 years, companies have struggled to find the right balance between cost-effective, technologically-enabled approaches to customer service and person-to-person contact.
Windows 7 also had the benefit of coming out at a time when laptops had finally reached a nice balance between cost, performance, and durability.
In addition, he has argued for years that hybrids are not just a temporary solution, but can provide an optimal balance of cost and flexibility.
While the near-term outlook for semiconductor equipment demand has softened, we are committed to achieving the appropriate balance between cost management and continued investment in next-generation solutions for our customers.
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To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
First-year net cost: This is the balance after adding up the purchase cost minus rebates and tax credits.
If the balance between improvement and cost turns negative for more than a short period, Iraqi resilience will be affected.
Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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Evidently the Patent Office thought so, at least when Severinsky, now a U.S. citizen, presented it as the ideal balance between performance and cost.
They no longer have inflated balance sheets with high cost debt.
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Citi should be able to take the losses in its stride, given its enormous balance sheet and low cost of funds (thanks to cheap deposit funding).
Even for bigger international beasts that can leverage their own balance sheets at minimal cost, shareholders would expect them to find far better value beyond US shores.
High uncertainty in credit markets has been caused by the Greek crisis, worries about the Italian and Spanish economies, and concerns about the effects of the debt agreement in the US. This is making it more difficult for smaller manufacturers with weaker balance sheets to acquire cost effective working capital to service orders on their books.
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Research from Vanguard found that semiannual rebalancing can strike a reasonable balance between risk control and cost minimization.
Having said all this, I own Freeport-McMoRan because incremental production is low cost and its balance sheet is unassailable.
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SHARE's balance sheet, at a cost that is three to four percentage points cheaper than it pays for a bank loan.
Those with the worst deficits were German companies, but for good reason: German firms are not required to set aside money to cover their pension-fund liabilities but do have to carry the cost on their balance sheets.
The idea is that your would-have-been interest payments cost more than the balance transfer fees.
He is less clear about how to establish a balance between these benefits and the cost of bringing them about.
Investor enthusiasm is high because GM, following its government-run bankruptcy in mid-2009, is much healthier now, with a competitive cost structure and clean balance sheet.
That small boost in revenues cost the company its balance sheet.
Either they will simply buy their properties, since this will now change little on the balance-sheet, and may cost less than the expense that leasing would imply.
So Mr Shimpi tells his clients to overcome their preoccupation with the debt-equity ratio and to concentrate instead on the underlying issues: how much capital does the company need, and how much should be on and off the balance sheet to minimise its total cost?
But with cost control, a strong balance sheet and loads of stock buybacks, Gap has made itself an attractive investment.
In our consolidated balance sheet these shares are carried at cost rather than market, since they are owned by Mutual Savings and Loan, a non-insurance subsidiary.
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Facing growing competition and shorter-term performance pressures from shareholders, managers resorted to waves of restructuring, personnel reductions, and relocation to lower-cost regions, while leveraging balance sheets to return capital to investors.
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The document proposed that Chinese partner Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Co. agree to the transfer of the extra cost from Hopewell's balance sheet to that of the project in the form of shareholder loans.
By including both the cost of paid-up capital and off-balance-sheet capital, managers and investors would be more accurate in their estimates of a company's true cost of capital, and therefore of a company's real value.
But at most big banks the off-balance gambit continues unabated, sometimes at bitter cost.
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