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The early part of the period was characterised by modest profit levels despite the vast expansion of the domestic market.
They are therefore easier to trade quickly to profit from short-term trends.
Serious art over the next period will come into greater and greater conflict with the framework of the profit system and its political apparatus.
It's time to stop letting this fat cat oilman and his corporate cronies damage lives and our economy for their personal profit and power.
Rarely does a profit warning come out of the blue like the subsequent share price reaction suggests.
According to this hypothesis, the profit was to be found in the saving in transport and tariffs.
We oppose any move which would put a profit motive above the educational mission in the public funding of higher education in Scotland.
The real blame lies at the feet of the people who profit from this carnage.
The land of spoilage, shrinkage, of profit margins so thin that the accountant's hands bleed with a thousand sharp cuts.
Those tough conditions plunged the company into an interim net loss compared to a small profit last year.
It said the involved parties may profit or avoid losses from such trading based on insider information.
The company now expects to turn a profit for the fiscal year ending next June.
Today people who could have been attracted to a professional or working environment not dedicated to profit are denied that option.
The report forecast more profit warnings for the year and growth of under ten per cent.
That's because low and falling utilization rates also hurt profit margins, not just once, but twice.
At the same time, if they are conciliatory in China, they are seen back at home as putting profit above principle.
The debacle has provided a revealing glimpse of how the profit system functions.
However, a number of studies have suggested that both professional education and liberal education can profit from integration.
Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible.
Since large sums were often paid for shrieval office, we may guess that the profit was good, and there is evidence of various types of extortion.
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Finally, when soldiers return to work, profit sharing is reinstituted as if they had never left.
Early this year more positive news came with talk that the company was close to making a profit on a monthly basis.
The Court assumes that firms with goals besides profit maximization will not behave anticompetitively.
A scope is almost mandatory for an air rifle, and airgun scopes can have great profit margins.
But what matters for capitalism is not just the level of profit but the rate of profit.
May's profit has fallen 38 percent in the past two fiscal years on a 6 percent decline in total revenue.
Not only did merchants of death profit from war, they instigated it at every opportunity.
It just doesn't work out economically, because the restaurant business has low profit margins and is so labor intensive.
Am I expected to pay the IRS on the profit from the sale or am I exempt from capital gains taxes?
The tight-fisted laird intends to profit from his marriageable son and daughter, but his children have ideas of their own.
The profit from the sale of the painting was to be shared equally between them.
In businesses with high turnover and low profit margins, a miscalculation of selling prices can have a big effect on a firm's annual profits.
I don't know of any loyal fan who would put making a profit above watching their team in such a huge match.
His work at Balco testifies to a character that placed profit above honesty and too easily chose wealth over morality.
The option's cost, known as a premium, reduces any profit you realize on the stock.
The shareware experience indicates that it is possible to return a profit even in the absence of enforcement mechanisms.
But declarations of support for the capitalist economy and the profit system were not enough.
If re-housed, these applicants could sell their property for a profit or let the property and receive a rental income from it.
This price differential offered the Patels an opportunity to profit through arbitrage.
Ending world poverty means rejecting the logic of capitalism that puts profit before human need.
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Very few villagers own lots of land large enough to be able to make a profit from selling their crops in the market.
Essentially, the long downturn resulted from the sharp fall of the profit rate and the long time it took to recover.
No one enjoys being smeared as a cheapskate, especially when that cheapness has been presented as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost.
As any employee of a cash-strapped non profit can tell you, money for professional development is rarely available.
Sadly though, not all blackjack mistakes merely reduce your profit on a moneymaking hand.
My job as a businessman is to be a profit centre and to maximise return to the shareholders.
The trixie would give us a nice profit should two win and if all three hit, the treble alone is a massive 40-1 shot.
There was the TMT bubble, where countless technology companies soared in value as investors fantasised over perpetual profit growth.
And that profit growth looks set to continue, after Serco published its annual results this morning.
Some profit went to the boat, some went to the harpooner, some to the boat steerer and the rest to the crew.
In some cases though, the costs charged against profit reserves will impact upon the company's ability to pay dividends.
Under capitalism all profit is ultimately the result of the exploitation of the workers.
In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital.
Because the Mandinka rely on their crops for food, little profit is made from them.
He said sanctions often benefit individuals in power because of their ability to control and profit from the black-market economy.
While the profits perceived to be made by big landholders are deplored, all citizens hope to profit from owning land.
He believes there are creditors and shareholders who believe the club's worth cannot be summed up in a profit and loss account.
And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed.
They are in the business of lending money and the more money they lend the more profit they make.
The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
You have plenty of autonomy, and once you begin profit sharing your bank balance could grow rapidly.
Poverty is a by-product of domination of the needs of profit over the needs of people.
A business analyst might correlate information on orders with cost of goods sold in order to understand profit contribution.
There is nothing morally wrong with a profit motive except where it masquerades as moral philanthropy.
Today's trends in agriculture continue to be driven by monoculture and profit driven cropping.
If the loans are paid back on time, they could generate a profit for the bank, he said.
The book can be read with profit by anyone who wants to understand how the system works.
Any profit they make over and above the interest charges of the loan, increases the value of the fund for all participating investors.
The companies must ensure that they do not put production and profit above the safety of human lives.
Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
Instead, the accent is on improving business attitudes, leaving consumers with the impression that once again profit is being put before safety.
The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations.
However, Fitzpatrick said that WorldCom Ireland was returning a profit and was confident it could survive the shakeout.
Either way, the fish farmers will, once more, doubtlessly turn a profit at the end of the day.
This program generates a budget using cost inputs provided by the user to calculate profit or loss per animal for the stocker enterprise.
The travel slump hit earnings across the tourism industry, prompting a number of mergers and profit warnings.
And a proportion of profit from the treks goes into a separate fund to subsidize village activities or be shared amongst villagers.
Without huge overhead costs, each extra dollar of revenue sees more profit fall to the bottom line.
Those with an eye for profit will be buying new packaged items likely to appreciate in value.
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More understandably, accusations flew about rail chiefs putting profit before passenger safety.
Never mind, anyone who wants to make a profit from education is obviously evil and best kept far from our little ones.
The fact is, the media profit from publishing only the most aesthetically appealing images.
The concept of mesne profit could arise in the case of a tenant and a landlord.
There's a lot of profit to be made if the volumes of the sale are particularly huge.
Despite his significant profit and success in South Africa, Johnston appears to be tardy about settling debts in Scotland.
Yet these are real risks, and they are being ignored in the headlong rush to profit from bioengineering breakthroughs.
But, a couple of months ago, it warned that its dividend policy was under review, following a succession of profit warnings.
During the first half, the operating profit of the Spirits and Wine division outside Europe increased nearly eightfold.
First and foremost is the acceptance of money on deposit from customers for the purpose of making a profit by reinvesting it.
The centres of British power are crawling with paid representatives of corporations that directly profit from slave labour.
Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination.
The headquarters is a holding company in that it serves as a profit centre, and does not otherwise direct activities at the periphery.
This is really money for old rope for the banks, who often make as much profit from selling you the protection policy as they do from the loan.
It was when news finally became a profit center that management tightened the financial screws on the correspondents.
Of course we're in business, but we're not in the business of making a maximum amount of profit regardless of our professional obligations.
We can't take any more cuts in profit and will have to surcharge our customers.
One profit measure was net farm income from operations, calculated as total revenues minus total costs.
It would profit Microsoft if all the other software developers in the world packed up.
The farmer is left to trawl the seas, casting a net for profit in an export-driven market.
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As usual, this big shot walked away with a slick profit and a wink, while small investors and company employees took a bath.
But there's only so much profit they will get away with before businesses start to smell something fishy.
Famine was a regular occurrence, while spices, coffee and sugar were sucked out for Western markets at vast profit to Dutch business.
The company, which failed to meet profit expectations, also said it would temporarily idle more plants.
The oil companies stress they cannot cash in this profit because they have to replenish stocks.
The maximization of value, profit and satisfaction are still the critical success factors in a commercial transaction.
Not a single airline in the weaker group has reported a profit in the latest period.
Any rental income is taxable and any profit on the future sale of the property is subject to capital gains tax.
On the contrary, it is only by virtue of the irrational and anarchic nature of the profit system that such a development could take place.
Such a development inevitably comes up against the restraints of the profit system and meets with the opposition of big business.
That's because falling unit costs increase the profit margin on each good or service sold.
All we know is that they approached the matter on the basis of achieving their desired profit margin, which included the full impost of the tax.
There were no corporate raiders, and profit maximization wasn't yet part of the boardroom vocabulary.
He also delivered a sharp rebuke to those who argued against the day on profit grounds.
If he had done so, a profit would have been realised on all three transactions.
He believed that one should not profit from something important for the good of mankind.
Whether you actually make a profit or are telling the truth are not the issues here.
Sounds like a lot of false hope, and a chance for some to make a handsome profit off the worried well.
The company has denied that it has given its multi-access games service just three months to turn a profit or face the axe.
After all, a multiple of 14 or 15 times operating profit is your standard newspaper rule of thumb.
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He was duped into thinking he would make a huge profit by buying jewels being brought into Britain.
I don't intend to live at my daughter's flat or benefit from any profit she may make when selling it.
Ditching old equipment while making a tidy profit is classic Bell monopoly reaming.
And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer.
Firms massaged their profit figures upwards so as to discourage hostile takeover bids.
With consumer credit companies swallowing fewer write-off loans, their overall profit should be greater.
It will be strictly not for profit and much of the renovation work will be undertaken by volunteers.
In any industry, oversupply leads to price reductions and pressure on profit margins.
Recycling for profit is one thing, but when no money changes hands, other people's cast-offs are less desirable.
The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software.
You have fixed costs, you have variable costs, and you have profit margins.
Good luck with your hunt for profit in pairs trading, and here's to your success in the markets.
The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax.
The liberal and reformist defenders of the profit system are incapable of providing a viable alternative to the right wing.
Those who profit from clear-cutting hillsides contribute to the floods that sweep away the homes and crops of those living below.
Ironically, big business is aware that climate change could be a real threat to profit margins.
Cargoes were of unequal value, and the profit margin surely much higher for some than for others.
At the end of the day he compares the tally of customers with the takings to ensure his profit margin.
It is the laborer who produces things for the consumer to buy and for the capitalist to profit from.
A rash of copycats, who now imitate the same trading tactics, will crimp his profit potential.
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But many analysts agree that the new price ceilings won't limit the ability of most power companies to make a profit in the region.
But it will not engage in high-risk speculative trading to make a profit on its own account.
He remains committed to improving efficiencies to deliver strong profit growth.
I think that the profit on drinks subsidises the cost of the food in a lot of places.
Trees and slash are left behind in the pursuit of today's profit opportunities, and nothing grows back except weeds.
Today, the privatisation of social services means that children are sacrificed for the sake of profit more than ever.
In fact, as the business grows and increases its fixed costs, its operating profit margins are likely to suffer in the short run.
Gross profit margins leaped in the three months to 9.8 per cent from 2.9 per cent.
The capitalist profit motive is antagonistic to public health, preferring to treat illness rather than preventing it.
Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year.
Rising sales will help to offset the squeeze on profit margins as productivity slows and costs pick up.
Rapidly rising producer prices can put a squeeze on corporate profit margins, causing stocks to decline.
The resulting squeeze on profit margins would curb investment, triggering recession.
The strategy may have been to go for turnover growth at the expense of profit margins.
And what happens when the need for profit simply cannot be reconciled with social and environmental justice?
He has replaced the stamp duty magic pudding with a tax on the profit from the sale of investment properties, and an overhaul of land tax.
Risk assets are being grown at a cracking pace, while the profit margin earned on them is shrinking.
Jesus was not opposed to capitalism and the profit motive, so long as economic activities were carried on outside the temple.
Quite simply, there is more profit in a bag of crisps than in a pound of potatoes.
That means that once they reach critical mass, their profit margins fatten as revenues grow.
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The firm attributed the profit to rising prices and lower interest payments to its creditors.
Besides, in a world where consumerism and profit have melded into a homogeny of blandness, any uniqueness should be cherished.
Under socialism or communism, producers of profit and receivers of profit are the same people.
Instead, every calculation of profit is carefully balanced against the potential risks in an enterprise.
Promoters of these enterprises suggest investors will profit from the run-up in oil prices.
The fixed income arbitrageur aims to profit from price anomalies between related interest rate securities.
He knew that if he could buy items at a cheap price, reselling them for a healthy profit would not be that difficult.
Brokers and auctioneers profit by charging a small fee for each transaction completed using their services.
But from its inception, the Labor party was wedded to the capitalist profit system.
On the one hand, a shipowner could send his ship without convoy and make a good profit but at the great risk of its being captured.
Anyone finding it impossible to profit where there is no competition simply demonstrates a lack of business acumen.
The index is calculated on unemployment figures and economic indices, including how much profit a business could make from investing in an area.
This book can be used with profit to grasp the essentials of British financial and economic history in these years.
The variable, total, marginal and average costs are calculated along with total revenue and profit or loss.
It has been a big year with record profits, record sales and while a win in the ratings and a lift in profit margins.
With low interest rates, profit margins on retail deposits have been sharply squeezed.
At the time of his arrest he was heavily addicted to heroin and funded his habit by selling at a profit to pay for his own drugs.
And with their higher markups, project changes can further present opportunities for potential profit gain when managed efficiently.
This means more vehicles through the service bay and more profit for the dealer.
When big Australian companies report record profit increases, it's not just their shareholders rubbing their hands together in anticipation.
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And profit is a function of the differential between real costs and possible prices.
Are you just a hired gun, a hit man, robbing profit and power from impoverished third world countries?
A private employer is putting high profit margins above the interests of very low-paid employees.
Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations.
Now the firm has warned profit margins would remain under pressure until its product portfolio was stronger.
It has since clawed back market share, but only at the cost of sacrificing a good chunk of profit margin.
Most current transaction fees are higher than the profit from any single microtransaction.
The Government has now legislated a convoluted process whereby criminals can profit and victims can go fly a kite.
The company posted an encouraging increase in pre-tax profit even though turnover remained essentially flat.
It also has summary statements for profit and loss, balance sheets and cash flow.
It said increases in costs of raw materials has eroded its profit margins and yet it still has to stay competitive.
These mechanisms and powers are always in operation even when empirically the rate of profit is rising.
She has a tough job taking Standard Life into profit and holding onto customers that have begun to drift away.
And they do so while saddled with parties and trade unions that have abandoned all pretence of opposing the profit system.
Some tenants felt Christmas would not generate big profit margins for them, but others saw a ray of hope with a late-buying binge.
For every point that the underlying asset increases, profit is multiplied by the customer's stake, and vice versa.
They turned this costly process into profit by selling wood to teamsters as backloading to the Blinman mine.
Please sign up now before their vast bloated profit margins begin to suffer.
None of this is helped, say analysts, by the razor-thin profit margins for many suppliers.
It appears that one of the major reasons for the profit outperformance was with their investment income rather than on the operating side.
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The stationer, which issued a profit warning in January, reports interims on Thursday.
The Royal Bank-backed Tesco Financial Services will also announce its first official profit when it declares its interims this week.
In July, the company said its interim profit had almost halved, after recording a steep drop in sales at its core UK business.
Few sets of results will be watched more closely than the interim profit figures due from AIB at the end of this month.
It said it would not pay an interim dividend and halved the net profit forecast for the half-year to September.
Of course, not many people play the percentages as well as that so the casino still makes a nice profit at blackjack.
Renters who are allowed to sublease their low-rent apartments can profit from the high cost of housing in the San Francisco area.
It makes the city look money-hungry and willing to profit from one of its citizen's misfortunes.
Almost two-thirds of a tenant farmer's profit would be taken up by market rent.
No one in his senses now stall-feeds cattle in the Irish Free State with any expectation of profit from this transaction in itself.
He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry.
Those who profit through spreading rumours should receive severe punishment.
Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
In any case, a need to salvage some profit saw Rocca and Heather turn the returned bagels into bagel chips.
The book is an instruction manual for merchants in how to calculate profit and loss.
The review comes in the wake of two profit warnings from the group so far this year.
They defend their right to profit from patients' pain, suffering and death with a zealousness that is unmatched in the corporate world.
The heedless pursuit of profit can hurt the environment and conflict with other social values.
It apparently wishes to realise a quick profit from the sale of its airline stake in order to offset these losses.
The gross profit margin slipped to 42.3 per cent from 43 per cent a year earlier.
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Unlike volume carmakers, they could not profit from government-sponsored scrappage incentive schemes.
We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort.
The profit realized from the sale of the school funded the new Monticello College Foundation.
The Labour Party is wedded to capitalism and the competition for profit that makes the system tick.
I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs.
Retailers are notoriously secretive about profit margins and the performance of their individual stores.
That should spark the economy and corporate profit growth, lifting stock prices, investors say.
Affluent suburbanites create gated enclosures not to pursue profit but in the name of community.
Net profit jumped by 53 per cent while operating profit is up 25.43 per cent.
Corporate profitability and the profit share in the economy remain relatively strong.
That does not mean that you cannot profit long-term from the advent of the Internet.
He also betrayed the trust of his American friends for profit and self-aggrandizement.
They can still sell at a very handsome profit even in a slack market and some did.
Instead, hens north of the Border will carry on living out their miserable lives crammed into dark, tiny boxes to boost farmers' profit margins.
These profit pressures were camouflaged during the 1990s stock market boom, which largely collapsed at the end of the decade.
The same profit from ownership is realized either way, but not the same tax.
The plan was unveiled after the firm said its profit for the first half nearly doubled to 110 million yuan, or 19 fen per share.
They provided work for eighty-one bargemen, and presumably made a profit for their thirty registered owners.
Put at its most simple, private companies exist to make profit for their share holders.
Bad weather, skyrocketing fuel prices and fierce discount competition are reducing profit margins to razor-thin levels.
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Until a couple of years ago it was making a million pounds profit a day and enjoyed high customer satisfaction ratings.
Observers said investors should keep an eye on the operating profit excluding the charge.
After becoming an expert pickpocket he organizes a gang of thieves, whose goods he receives and sells at huge profit to himself.
The developer would pay for the site that amount that he could realise on a gross sale less a margin for profit and risk of realisation.
Making a profit on the house is his ticket to a better life for his family.
Progressives would profit more by studying the way the New Right responded to life in the political wilderness.
The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes.
It could reduce interest rates to the rate of inflation, and stop trying to screw a profit out of borrowers.
Irish Life director Kieran McGowan has a 21 per cent paper profit after buying 5,000 shares in the bancassurer at the start of July.
He uses his detective skills to weed out the glory hounds who are trying to profit from having an in-house ghost.
In companies like ours, the profit is taxed at the corporation rate.
He could not reap extra profit from having a piece of my father's land.
The only thing so far saving the economy from a terrible reckoning is the fact that there aren't great prospects for profit anywhere else in the world either.
When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it.
Very lucrative deals set up both to attract a broader, hipper consumer and to profit from that ever-so-cool Jay-Z swagger.
So if you reduce the profit margin by restricting advertising or imposing cost control, you will simply force companies to reallocate their resources.
They will see that they have laboured for the wind, when, at death, they find the profit of their labour is all gone like the wind, they know not whither.
Would she still love me if she knew I had faked injury to profit from the only pub in town that still had not altered its written rules to address my behavior?
He sees expansion beyond Singapore's boundaries as the only way to avoid the slow profit growth that comes to a company that has saturated its home market.
The provider receives more revenue at higher profit because capex and opex are reduced through the use of more cost-effective optical Ethernet technology.
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He had done two dangerous things, stealing state property on a large scale, and dealing in a socially sensitive commodity, as well as making an enormous profit for himself.
Now we have hundreds of radio stations creating a profit with virtually no on-air personnel and no newsroom, no Associated Press wire, no birth announcements, no obits.
A profit warning in August caused a major fall in the share price.
York Railway Institute is an affordable sport and recreation facility run by volunteers, where all profit is poured back for the benefit of the members.
According to incomplete sources, revenue from tourist companies and organizations peaked at 8.6 billion tugriks in 1990 realizing net profit of 1.5 billion tugriks.
This is another case in which the profit motive had conflicted with, and indeed blotted out, the object of the exercise, which was to obtain a supply of jurymen.
Framers must do the math to decide upon incentives that strike a good balance between being meaningful to customers and keeping the shop's profit margin intact.
Each new project is financed by the profit realised by selling the last.
In effect, Colombian racketeers have successfully managed to penetrate and profit from the latest trend in the North American illegal drug market.
The logic of the capitalist is to maximize profit for him or herself.
The obscenely high price of mahogany woods and precious metals prevented counterfeiters from producing fakes, the profit of such operations being next to nil.
I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them.
A graphic example of how the profit hierarchy is dominated by major transnationals is the production of personal computers, China's second largest export item after garments.
But the profit warner of the year was Baltimore Technologies.
Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said.
The reason that aggregate profit does not decline is that, in the aggregate, total sales revenues and total productive expenditures, or costs, remain the same.
The company said that these costs were expensed through the profit and loss account in the normal way and were a cost-efficient way for Elan to remunerate staff.
But downsize Fitness, which requires members to be overweight, plans to make a profit by creating community.
It facilitated the accuracy of the account books by periodically balancing the books and extracting a trial balance, and it also permitted profit determination.
Business interruption or consequential loss covers the loss of gross profit following an insured event due to loss of turnover and increased costs of working.
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And reporting a profit slump of 92 percent is, well, what big-box electronics retailer Best Buy did Tuesday morning.
In this age of thin profit margins and smaller budgets for films, I think the fictitious junketeer could have saved the studios some much earned cash.
This means that projects you spearheaded, amid pooh-poohing, are now being valued by people who wish to profit from them.
Again, though, the Internet makes the costs of mischief-making so low, even if there's no profit motive, that its proliferation becomes inevitable.
The other, I think, is the common conspiracy theory that pharmaceutical companies do not produce cures because they can make more profit selling palliatives.
In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity.
They are accountable for producing past profit reports that may have relied excessively on running down reserves to preserve a mirage of real growth.
Now, the fair value of the option will be imputed at the time of issue and amortized as an expense in the profit and loss account over the vesting period.
Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production.
One of the reasons I'm so optimistic about the music business going forward is that the actual promotional cost center becomes a profit center in and of itself.
The marginal costs of servicing these extra accounts would be minimal and therefore the salesperson's contribution to profit would substantially increase.
Target costing is a process of determining a maximum allowable cost for a product by subtracting a desired profit from the product's market price.
Millions of the less well-off are in hock to money lenders because banks won't handle their affairs since the profit margin involved isn't big enough.
The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening.
The market's savage reaction to most profit warnings is entirely rational.
It's the gross profit that covers the overhead expenses and provides the net profit you need to build the company and get a return on your investment.
Mortgage holders are expected to benefit when the bank falls into line with other banks by cutting interest rates ahead of group profit figures due on Thursday.
For tax purposes, the value of undistributed profit would be added to the price you paid for the stock and leave you with a smaller taxable gain when you sell.
I put up a link recently to one of his articles about how business, profit and commerce generally seem to be decried and scorned by the intelligentsia.
And there are strong reasons why a person who could make a reputation and a profit off supplying that stuff should do so.

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