If you fly less than planned, however, your fixed costs are spread over fewer hours and that means a higher per-hour cost.
The increase in cash cost per ton was due largely to fixed costs being spread over lower than expected production, as well as higher sales related costs related to higher average sales prices.
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With small customer bases over which to spread their fixed costs, they tend to charge higher fees per dollar invested.
As volume goes up, business owners can spread their fixed costs.
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In addition, the company is also gaining operating leverage as it opens more than 200 new stores by 2005, allowing fixed costs to be spread over a greater sales base.
The more Americans abandon it to go mobile-only or make phone calls over the internet, the more fragile it becomes: its high fixed costs have to be spread over ever fewer subscribers.
But lower production in North America means that fixed legacy costs have to be spread more thickly across shrunken revenues.
The banks got a fixed dollar amount that will be spread proportionately to everyone in population with no assessment of harm.
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Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
The fixed costs of content acquisition will be spread out over a smaller revenue base, implying that Netflix will lose operating leverage.
Accounting and legal departments have become more necessary and are large blocks of fixed costs that lend themselves to being spread over a larger employment and sales base.
Fixed income traders are quick to enlighten the masses that the spread between US and Japanese rates is struggling to widen.
As Evans and about other 30 riders fixed their tires, punctured by tacks that apparently had been malevolently spread on the road, the Web went viral.
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According to officers, English, of no fixed abode, had a bottle of white spirit which he had spread around the flat, and he tried to set light to a sofa and a curtain.
As such, regulation tends to impose fixed costs that are far easier to bear by larger corporations that can spread the costs over more sales or more locations or more employees.
By comparison, the spread between 10-year Treasurys and a standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is just 1.93 percentage points, near historical averages, according to mortgage-data provider HSH Associates.
He says the spread between the 10-year Treasury note and the 30-year fixed rate mortgage has been unusually high.
Instead of charging a fixed transaction fee for clearing the rights, Corbis tries to buy low and sell high, capturing the spread as revenue.
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