Widening borrowing costs, accounting rules that forced the bank to write down its assets, and rating agency downgrades that all conspired to hobble Lehman.
Thus far Sirva's stock has been further punished by its May announcement that the first three quarters of 2005 were in the red--in part because of accounting costs.
The company should already be charging the most it can for that marginal phone call and a change in sunk costs might affect accounting profit but not that revenue maximising price charged.
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Lawyers would be free to factor in the likely costs of the particular type of case in setting their percentage split, but they could have no detailed accounting for costs.
San Antonio lawyer Rex Cruse, who represents the Reichardts, says the family tried to cut costs by handling the accounting and property transfers themselves.
WellPoint spokeswoman Kristin Binns said the company would work with regulators to implement the MLR requirement, but did not comment on whether it had shifted any costs or changed its accounting practices.
But cost-plus projects often leave some wiggle room in accounting for fixed costs ( see box, p. 66).
Also make sure that plentiful profit potential remains after accounting for development costs.
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Ericsson had predicted a gross margin, the proportion of revenue left after accounting for general costs, parts and labour, of about 36.5%.
This will raise the price in the original location, lower it in the second, and things will always end up costing the same (accounting for transport costs) everywhere.
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This is due to the fact that the Securities Law of 1933 mandated prohibitively high requirements for disclaimer, disclosure and reporting that made it nearly impossible for the average startup to raise money without incurring extremely high accounting and legal costs.
We then looked at each movie's estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.
Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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The DSO handles marketing, human resource support, accounting and billing, spreading costs efficiently across several practices.
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Because Aetna's managers failed to see that the firm's accounting systems were underestimating its costs, they set premiums too low.
Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs.
Making the claim that the costs have doubled is like reading an accounting ledger and only looking at the liabilities side of the equation to inform your opinion.
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Here, CAC is cost of customer acquisition, MRR is monthly recurring revenue and software margin is the cash they keep for each customer after accounting for support and other costs.
Fuel is the biggest single expense for airlines, accounting for about 30% of operating costs.
There were one-time charges and gains, "repositioning" costs, impairment adjustments and ever-confusing special accounting measures.
Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.
The United States General Accounting Office says that estimate of the costs of 11 September includes the direct destruction of property as well as indirect losses caused by businesses closing.
Even if there was no profit, as was often the case after accounting for the owner's financing costs, the management company could be sure to stay comfortably in the black.
They found that cardiac disease was the most expensive to treat - accounting for 44% of direct healthcare costs associated with weight problems - while back pain was the biggest cause of workplace absenteeism.
No expense is harder to control than labor, typically accounting for 25% to 35% of costs in such mine construction and most of the overruns.
Under current accounting rules most companies do not report the full costs of pension provision in their profit and loss account.
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For the rest, he says, the benefits of switching from America's generally accepted accounting principles are minimal and will not justify the costs.
It turns out that even after accounting for growth in the economy, these hidden costs are growing three times faster than health entitlements themselves.
Scrutiny from the SEC recently caused the company to abandon a much-criticized accounting method that swept its staggering customer-acquisition costs under a rug.
They also failed to note that the F-35 management system was designed to track all costs associated with operations and support, whereas legacy aircraft lacked comprehensive accounting systems.
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