If a company is in expansion mode, he subtracts the typical yearly costs of expansion.
If the company is in expansion mode, he also subtracts the typical yearly costs of expansion.
Markets cannot always make up their mind as to whether a CEO adds or subtracts shareholder value.
Not surprisingly, for many companies, a significant proportion of their international operations subtracts, rather than adds economic value.
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When that card subtracts a fee upon each individual use, does each swipe count as a cash transaction?
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Applied Finance subtracts from this a "capital charge, " reflecting the return investors would expect to earn from similarly risky assets.
Then it subtracts any aid, such as a Pell Grant, scholarship or loan, the family expects the student to receive.
Here we'll use an adjusted FFO measure favored by real estate research firm Green Street Advisors, which subtracts building-upkeep costs from FFO.
Put aside for a moment the flakiness of that GDP report--Washington, in effect, takes the net imports figure and subtracts it from GDP.
Despite measuring what is intended, a big rise in imports is almost always misinterpreted as being bad for the economy simply because it subtracts from GDP.
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This means they have to internalize the notion that leaving individuals free to incrementally revise existing institutions in response to shifting human needs adds to--not subtracts from--the overall social well-being.
But it soon became clear how DeltaWrx subtracts value.
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It's certainly true that we produce in order to consume, but since no entrepreneurs exist without capital, it could be argued that our obsession with cosmetic and mental wellness subtracts from the base of capital in economically harmful ways.
The CPI also ignores the direct cost of property taxes--sure to go up as states and cities bail out underfunded pension plans--and subtracts the "hedonic" effects of regulations that increase quality of life, such as the added expense of pollution-reducing gasoline additives.
Going back to the entrepreneurial concepts and existing businesses so often in need of credit, the irony of the Keynesian view that governments must spend us out of recession is that as governments have no resources, their spending naturally subtracts from the available pool of capital that would otherwise migrate toward businesses, and in reaching businesses, boost employee pay.
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