"I learned how to calculate the cost-to-market of Petplan's policies and how to calculate the profits that Petplan or any insurance company could make by selling their product, " he said.
One way to calculate the reduced burden due to delaying payments is to calculate the net present value (NPV) of the stream of payments.
In one, called "The Caddy, " you are asked to calculate yardages to flagsticks while simultaneously clicking on virtual golf clubs in a bag that need "cleaning" on random time schedules.
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The package would "allow EU governments to calculate costs related to noise, air pollution and congestion caused by lorries, and then levy the relevant charge, " he said.
In fact, much of the risk of a property crash still resided in the banks, and the complex nature of derivatives made their exposure very hard to calculate, leading to a loss of confidence in almost all of them.
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That is a pretty easy sum to calculate when it comes to manufacturing.
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But the blend of these trade offs that maximises profits is rather harder to calculate than many seem to think.
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However, even if you break people down into broad stereotypes, it's still impossible to reliably calculate the risk to any one individual.
It has begun, for the first time, to calculate the real cost to poor countries of tariffs, anti-dumping duties and non-tariff barriers in rich markets.
The independent Migration Advisory Committee came up with the earnings threshold when asked by the government to calculate the minimum needed to avoid recourse to public funds.
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Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainment level at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.
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Only by doing this will you be able to calculate how much your day-to-day living is costing you.
Banks like Itau Unibanco (ITUB) failed to calculate what the changes would mean to a different class of borrowers.
Although it is impossible to calculate accurately, the proportion permitted to stay is much higher than the headline figures imply.
This in turn allowed them to calculate that penitentes are probably restricted to between 15 and 20 degrees latitude from the equator.
To calculate it, you will need to know how much money you've made or lost on each stock over the life of your portfolio.
The method used to calculate the mortality figures is similar to that used to produce estimates of ordinary seasonal flu deaths, which are believed to number about 36, 000 a year.
Property and casualty insurers become the first stocks to dump as traders calculate the damage to those companies' profits in the wake of billions in claims to repair damage from the storm.
To calculate Proposition 8's cost to San Francisco's economy, Mr. Egan estimated how much gay couples and their guests spent on weddings, hotel rooms and tourism from June 17, 2008, to Nov. 4, 2008, when gay marriage was legal in California.
Vincentric looks at the cost of zero-deductible, bumper-to-bumper extended-warranty claims to calculate the average cost owners can expect to pay for repairs.
Slave narratives describe how others used the data to calculate punishment, meting out whippings according to how many pounds each picker fell short.
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Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong.
It isn't possible to calculate precisely how many people are able to cover the recommended 85% of their pre-retirement income, but Federal Reserve data suggest that many people can't.
Just how great would be the adverse impact of such a development on intra-alliance relations is difficult to calculate with confidence at this point due to a number of imponderables.
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It's best to play around with several to calculate how much you'll need to save to fund your desired retirement lifestyle, given various assumptions about investment returns, inflation and other factors and whether you should be in a traditional 401(k) or IRA or the Roth versions of these accounts.
It is almost impossible to calculate what will happen if Europe is unable to save itself.
Engineers had to calculate the optimal air flow into the chamber to ensure that patients would breathe a full dose each time.
Before Facebook, it was impossible to calculate with this level of accuracy, or to provide recommendations to users on which way the should steer their education or career.
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According to a survey of industry practices published by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in March, many banks still fail to use risk-adjusted measures either to calculate the size of their bonus pool or to allocate it.
It is impossible to calculate how much without knowing how many banks agree to the "haircut".
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