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- Understanding Allowable Business Expenses
- It's crucial for business owners to understand exactly what expenses can be deducted from total revenues and reported to shareholders, employees and taxing authorities. Some expenses are obvious: wages, salaries, and benefits you pay employees, for example. Allowable expenses also can vary according to activity, and thus can be a...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- Analyzing Borrowing Costs and Capitalization
- When a company borrows money, there are essentially two costs involved: the issuance expenses, which are fees charged to issue the loan, and the interest payments on the debt. If interest is added to the principle balance of the loan—rather than paid off—it's known as capitalization.Interest rates are usually based...
- Articles 2007-12-12
- Pricing Your Products and Services
- Although pricing can be one of the most difficult marketing decisions, the basic process is straightforward—calculating your costs; estimating the benefits to customers and the limits on how much they're willing to pay; and comparing your products, services, and prices to others that are similar. What You Need to...
- Articles 2007-11-28
- Making Existing Customers More Profitable
- Increasing customer profitability can be tricky. Many companies offer customers discounts or free services to win or retain business. But if they find that the cost of providing those services or discounts exceeds customer profitability, the company has to make a difficult decision between cutting costs or losing customers. Using...
- Articles 2007-11-26
- Track the Real Cost of Meetings with Meeting Miser
- Most bosses know that dragging the troops into a meeting or conference call takes them away from doing actual work. But at what real-world cost? Find out with Meeting Miser, a seriously fascinating -- and potentially sobering -- meeting timer that calculates the cost down to the penny. Here's how...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Understanding Research and Development Accounting
- There's more than one way to account for Research and Development (R&D). A business using the accrual method of accounting will treat R&D costs as expenses. A business contracted to undertake R&D for another company might treat it as an operational cost. If that business retains an element of financial...
- Articles 2007-10-02
- Determining the Right Price for a Product or Service
- Setting the price of a product or service is both a financial and marketing issue. Clearly, the price has to cover all the costs you have incurred. It also has to generate a profit—the business won't survive otherwise. Then again, you should never gouge your customers or you will lose...
- Articles 2007-05-03
- Coca Cola FEMSA SA de CV Q3 2007 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you sir. [Operator Instructions]. And your first question comes from the line of Robert Ford with Merrill Lynch. Please proceed. Robert Ford - Merrill Lynch Hey good day everybody. Héctor, congratulations on the quarter. I was curious with respect to Columbia, what percentage...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- Imperial Tobacco Group PLC FY07 Preliminary Earnings Call
- Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Analyst In the run up to Altadis during that process, I think you were quite clear that you felt that the scope of revenue synergies in Europe was not being fully appreciated. Now I presume that a significant part of that scope of revenue in...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-30
- The Thomson Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. One moment please for the first question from the line of Drew McReynolds from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Drew McReynolds - RBC Capital Markets Thanks very much. Good morning. Just on the THOMSONplus program and the acceleration maybe you can...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Electrolux AB Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Company Representative The questions here in Stockholm, and also those who are on the telephone conference. So I will start here with a couple of questions in Stockholm. Michael please, microphone here please. Michael Andersson - Danske Securities Michael Andersson, Danske Bank....
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
- UTI Worldwide F2Q08 (Qtr End 7/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator : [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from the line of Jon Langenfeld with Baird. Unidentified Analyst Hi, this is Ben, I'm standing in for Jon. Good morning. Roger I. MacFarlane - Chief Executive Officer, Director Good morning Ben. Unidentified Analyst...
- Earnings calls 2007-09-18
- Langer, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions. And we'll take our first question from Aaron Lindberg with William Smith & Co. Aaron Lindberg – William Smith & Co. Thank you. So the 2.4 million in medical product revenue solely from Silipos products? Gray Hudkins Yes. Aaron Lindberg –...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-12
- Move, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from William Morrison – ThinkEquity. William Morrison – ThinkEquity Lew, I was hoping you could walk us through the cost reductions again and also maybe elaborate on how we should think about modeling the reductions. For instance, I think you...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-05
- Eagle Materials, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 9/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Your first question comes from Garik Shmois - Longbow. Garik Shmois - Longbow Steve, on the wallboard price increase that you mentioned that was announced for today, was this the first price increase for October? Steven Rowley That’s correct. Garik Shmois -...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-27
- Evergreen Solar, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions You first call comes from Timothy Arcuri – Citigroup. Timothy Arcuri – Citigroup Can you talk about when we might see kind of a hockey stick in margins as you look at next year? I think you've been saying you would have 30% or greater...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-16
- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionThank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Darren Horowitz with the Raymond James Company. Sir, your line is open. Darren Horowitz - Raymond James Good afternoon and thank you. Rich, I thought you did a good job...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-15
- WD-40 Company F4Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from Jeff Zekauskas – J.P. Morgan. Ben Richardson for Jeff Zekauskas – J.P. Morgan I just wanted to discuss business conditions in Europe for a moment. We noticed you had about 5% sales growth. We considered that you...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-15
- Sealy Corporation F3Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Chad Boland - Raymond James Chad Boland - Raymond James Regarding gross margin, extraordinary impressive job even with a modest increase given the declines in volumes that we’re seeing right here, as we look out...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-07
- Pan American Silver Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions There appear to be no questions at this time and I would like to turn it back to Geoff Burns for any closing comments. Actually, we do have a question come from Haytham Hodaly of Salman Partners. Please go ahead. ...
- Earnings calls 2007-08-14
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