In fact, most companies have no way to measure the cost or the value of a happy customer.
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As wages rise, manufacturers find themselves unable to compete either with lower-cost producers elsewhere or, in higher-value-added products, with more advanced economies.
If you give an item to a charity auction, you usually get to deduct the lesser of (a) the item's fair market value or (b) your cost.
For The Globe it appears that coverage is king, regardless of the cost implications, or if we are even getting a good value.
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That was up slightly from previous years but still indicates that many such cases settle for nuisance value, or less than the expected cost of defending them.
In fact, the essence of growth is creating more value with fewer inputs (or at lower input cost).
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Each one of those individual actions has an associated cost, so layers of cost that have no value to the process, the customer, or the company have just become embedded inertia.
Lib Dem health spokesman, Jim Hume, said these costs did not take into account the value of the medicines being wasted, or the cost of prescribing them in the first place.
This could include employing dollar-cost averaging or automatically rebalancing your portfolio when particular asset classes gain or lose value in comparison to others.
If your property is personal-use property or is not completely destroyed, the amount of your casualty loss is the lesser of your adjusted basis (generally, the cost, adjusted for improvements or depreciation) or the decrease in fair market value of your property.
Even Census admits that some of the people who receive Medicaid, or food stamps, value what they receive at less than the cost of providing it.
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For insurance purposes, the replacement cost of a home is NOT the market value of the home, its purchase price or the outstanding amount of any mortgage loan.
But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.
Customers are either dealing with the very complex physics of 20-nanometer design or they are squeezing the last bit of performance and cost from designs at mature, high-value nodes.
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Its whole thesis that the Pentagon needs to start searching for alternatives hangs on government cost estimates, but it simply takes those estimates at face value without asking why the costs keep rising or whether the estimates are even valid.
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The notion behind the yardsticks is simple: a company creates value only if the return on its capital is greater than the opportunity cost of it, or the rate that investors could earn by investing in other securities with the same risk.
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