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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We can improve quantifying the full costs and value of corporate responsibility.
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And might also serve to inform investors in Royal Dutch Shell what the full costs may be of continuing to pursue its snafu-prone Alaskan drilling campaign.
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Moreover, customizing was expensive and Monitor did not charge the few customers who were willing to pay enough money to cover the full costs of such customization.
In 2002, after losing repeatedly in court on the issue (most recently in a case involving Sutherland Lumber-Southwest ) the IRS conceded that companies could deduct their full costs.
Or the patient is given market incentives to consider the full costs of the health care he chooses to consume, in which case the patient weighs the personal benefits of his health care against the costs of that care.
The academic, who is on the executive of the umbrella body Universities UK, suggested that allowing the public purse to continue to pay the full costs of higher education was not sustainable unless the sector became a higher priority for funds.
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Bogota and Lima are eager to ratify the FTA's with the US since the ATPDEA, although a step forward, still forces exporters to cover the full costs of the tariffs which, in many cases, is a much too heavy burden for some businesses.
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If, for example, the costs of inefficiency come to exceed the political and social benefits, or if the world forces Japan to bear the full costs of its still-mercantilist system, and especially if the economy enters a prolonged slump, Tokyo would be hard pressed to rethink the nation's path.
Be sure to peep the read link for a full breakdown of the costs.
Space constraints will not permit a full rendering of the costs associated with these serial mistakes.
At first, the company offered only full refunds plus transportation costs.
"We shouldn't start banning products until we have done a more full analysis of the costs associated, not only with government but for small businesses, " New York State Restaurant Association spokesman Andrew Moesel said Wednesday.
Both brands get high marks for low depreciation, fuel and maintenance and repair costs across their full vehicle lines.
They say many local authorities are refusing to make their full contribution to care home costs and they are getting families to make up the shortfall.
Obama Care in particular, which we know mandates additional employer health care costs for new full-time employees, freezes the motivation of employers to hire new full-time employees.
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Earlier efforts to come to an accommodation with religious groups had run into problems because many large employers, including big Catholic institutions, self-insure, meaning they act as insurance companies by assuming the full responsibility for the health costs of their workers and use traditional insurance companies only for administrative services.
He said this would incur costs without delivering the full benefits possible through direct foreign investment.
The deal is expected to be accretive to free cash flow ex integration costs in the first full year following the close.
What we need is the political will, starting with a full health economics analysis of the costs and benefits of effective weight management in diabetes and other conditions where obesity is a significant factor.
Independent firms benefit from full expensing of their intangible drilling costs, while the integrated firms can expense only 70 percent of their IDCs and must write off the rest over a five- year period.
We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).
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The program should successfully keep borrowing costs low, but the full impact on the economy is unclear.
Zappos lets you return what you bought and gives you a full refund--including all shipping costs--regardless of whether you purchase a replacement item.
But with life expectancies, retiree medical costs and the age for full receipt of Social Security benefits all rising--and stock market returns lagging--boomers would be well advised to wait until they're at least 59.5 to start phasing down.
Pan American met its targets for silver production and cash costs during the fourth quarter and full year, Burns said.
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Excluding these legal costs, the company's full year earnings per share guidance remains essentially unchanged with previously issued guidance between flat and a loss of 40 cents per share.
The company is also cutting costs, trimming 4, 500 full-time positions from its payroll in the last four months of 2003, and planning to cut headcount by 2, 900 (5% of its workforce) this quarter.
This has allowed those in their early and mid-60s to transition to self-employment, part-time employment or even full retirement, knowing most of their health costs would be picked up by the government at 65.
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