Even new ideas that were originally designed to reduce cost and increase return have degenerated into high cost speculative products designed to increase the amount of money the industry takes in.
Scooterman's prices aim to beat the cost of a return taxi ride - one to get home after a night drinking and a second to pick up your car the following day.
Instead of answering the question around how do we make a quality postsecondary education affordable, the government will keep going down the road of merely enabling students to afford a higher education regardless of the total cost or the return.
Brad Smith, an analyst at Stonecap Securities, wonders whether the bank will return its cost of capital.
One way for investors to mitigate high correlation, RBC argues, is concentrating the number of stocks in a portfolio and sacrificing the potential cost of somewhat higher return variance.
The reason is simple: if an advertiser knows how many units and how much revenue a given ad placement will bring, they can determine exactly the maximum amount that placement should cost for an appropriate return on investment.
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Although the sums involved are very small in terms of its annual turnover, the Royal Mail says the proceeds are used to recoup part of the cost of its National Return Letter Centre based in Belfast, which aims to return undeliverable items to the sender wherever possible.
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That is, if you do at least 392 loads of laundry a year, live in one of 18 states where electricity costs are at or above the national average of 7.8 cents a kilowatt-hour and if your opportunity cost--the return you'd get by investing in something other than a more expensive washer--is 6% or less.
"We're very happy with the return on the cost of our products, " he says.
Among the criteria for shorting: companies whose earnings have deteriorated or whose cost of capital exceeds its return on investments.
People now prefer cash to investments because holding it earns them a good return: things cost less tomorrow than they do today.
Weigh the probability for return against the cost and payout.
But he got zero in four areas -- return on equity, cost efficiency, brand management and compliance.
But that will cost big money and any such return would have put me closer to -or even over- the insurance cap.
Contractors would cost out a project and then return the next day to find that they now only had enough money to build half the house.
But most people look for a handset subsidy: a lower upfront cost for getting the phone in return for paying some set fee per month over the life of the contract.
The union also successfully disputed Mr Scargill's fuel allowance at his Barnsley home and payment for the preparation of his annual tax return but not the cost of his security system in Yorkshire.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
ETFs were originally created as low-cost index funds designed to generate the return of a market.
Spend more on those items that have higher return and cut those that cost more than what they are yielding.
When the cost of capital goes up, the return on capital must also increase, or the economy will liquidate itself.
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If a would-be doctor had to pay the full cost of Canadian medical training, the return on a career south of the border would fall to 15%.
The house is measured and tested, and the information is sent to headquarters where software determines what can be done at what cost, and what provides the best return on investment for the homeowner.
Senior ones know that a return to civilian politics would probably cost them their jobs.
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Under the scheme, directors would have received nil-cost share options if the board met annual return targets over the next three years.
Mr Ros hopes to improve on many recent efforts to measure a firm's return over and above its weighted cost of capital.
As for the authors, they advise buying index funds and simply attempting to capture a market return at the lowest possible trading cost.
For most countries, the interest cost of domestic borrowing is greater than the return on foreign reserves, because reserve currencies tend to pay lower interest rates.
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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And policy advocates might not be happy that what is good news (or, at least, better news) for employers and workers who want full time jobs will cost other workers some of their pay in return for new benefits.
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