This account value is reduced by a surrender value factor that has a significant limitation in establishing its safe harbor value.
The good news is that the brand can serve as a surrogate for the added-value consumers are looking for, and become a driving factor in the value equation.
The numbers get better when we factor in the value of the dollar.
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In fact, television revenue is essentially the sole driving factor in conference value, while income from bowl games and basketball tournaments has been relegated to a rounding error.
Ms. Merchant points out another factor: creating shared value with these unployees.
They play the field with a multi-factor approach that blends various value indicators together.
Of course, these comparisons also ignore the convenience factor as well as the value of your time.
One point was assigned for a favorable value for each factor.
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"We've had insurers applying a 10 percent to 12 percent inflation factor every year to dwelling value, " said Willo Kelly, who lobbies for real estate agents and homebuilders on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
With an understanding based only on correlation and not causality, we challenge mix modelers to rationally explain where their long-term factor comes from (whatever value it is) and by what mechanism or how it becomes actual, longer-term consumer purchases.
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Perhaps it has more to do with engineering and design excellence, with the user experience, with the coolness factor, with the perceived value, and with the desire to support a better future for America that we hope to pass on to our children and to their children.
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Another major factor is the tremendous amount of value that has been drained out of the housing market in the wake of the bubble.
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Even if you are able to convert points or miles into cash, how are you supposed to factor in the possibility of the value of these points or miles changing overnight?
Instead, mix models only grossly estimate this value with an externally derived factor of 2X the immediate effect for the longer-term effect.
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That simple 5 factor screen looks for financially healthy, value stocks, with some insider buying and that have a low probability of fraud.
The value had fallen by a factor of about 6.
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So the reported value had been inflated by a factor of eight thousand?
Style characteristics also help define market cap, although the signals can conflict depending on what factor is used to differentiate growth stocks from value stocks.
Of the 11 startups that presented, all had some redeeming value, if not that gee whiz factor.
Maybe four more decades of fiat money would see the value of the dollar decline by another factor of forty-eight.
If money is a ubiquitous economic factor, then it follows that distortion of money value must necessarily distort everything in the economy.
This is what France did after their World War I devaluation, which reduced the value of the franc by about a factor of five.
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The real value of the company and the differentiating factor was not in the market it was going after--which became plagued with issues--but the underlying technology for making the component products.
Some 83% of collectors surveyed said that the emotional value of buying art was the most important factor.
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Its ad certainly ups the edginess factor for a company that sells directly to consumers through value multi-packs at chains like Wal-Mart.
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The concept of a derivative product, with a value that depends on at least one risk factor, has been the greatest financial-product innovation of the 20th century.
Many financial economists, for example, argue that the higher returns earned by value stocks are due to some other risk factor that they have not yet accounted for.
The official value of the local currency has plummeted by a factor of 16 in the past year, with inflation at over 780%.
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