Cost savings are still the principal motivation to outsource, but performance is becoming the main battleground between providers.

成本节约仍是业务外包的首要目的，不过，供应商们的执行效绩也成为各自竞争力的主要表现。

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This article builds single and double principal-agent theory models and studies measures to reduce agent cost by using dividend policy as an observable variable.

本文将股利政策作为一个可观测变量引入单层、双重委托代理模型，详细分析了降低代理成本的途径。

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The foundations of traditional accounting system, such as the definition of accounting constituents, historic cost principle and realization principal etc, all face severe challenges from derivatives.

会计要素的定义，历史成本原则，实现原则等传统会体系的基石都受到了严峻的挑战。

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For example, the government, as a condition of bearing part or all of the cost of reducing the principal on a given loan, might have insisted on receiving some share of the future appreciation in the value of the property in question, perhaps by issuing a second mortgage that had to be paid off upon a sale.

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Although many investors support principal reductions when their benefits outweigh the cost of foreclosure, many worry that some of the principal reductions triggered by the settlement will reduce returns on the securities.

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In fact, this default is a default and not a success and to the extent it has been modified (lower interest or principal) it cost me and you the taxpayer, money.

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