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The concept of depreciation is also credited to the railroad era, when railroad owners allocated the cost of their trains over time, but Rosenthal notes that slave owners were doing this before then.
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In a statement, the council said it was not possible to calculate the exact amount it spent on bottled water because it was not allocated a specific cost code in its records.
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The rule also established reforms for cost allocation, most notably that costs allocated to a transmission facility must be roughly commensurate with estimated benefits.
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There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and people allocated to customer A are resources not available for customers B, C, or D.
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The second reason is that if you can track the success of advertising, especially if you can follow sales leads, then marketing ceases to be just a cost-centre, with an arbitrary budget allocated to it.
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Each company has been allocated similar areas of the city to service, and their cost and performance will be compared with that of the public sector.
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As well as supporting artists with the cost of performing at the Fringe, money can also be allocated to help Scottish artists or performing companies take up international touring opportunities arising from the Fringe.
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Every resource that is allocated to a free user and every hour in support spent helping a free user come at the cost of a paying user.
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