Inventory days are calculated as inventories divided by cost of goods sold (COGS), multiplied by 365.
The COGS percentage jumped to 37% from 33% and payroll to 40% from 35%.
He sees COGS up 15%-20%, while the Street is modeling an increase of under 5%, he notes.
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The other guy's been running bigger and bigger cogs in the Chicago political machine his entire adult life.
Business leaders often deal with their employees as though they are cogs in a machine: entirely separate and interchangeable.
Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine.
Mr Covey taught that employees were not merely cogs in a machine powered by rewards and punishments, but individuals.
They are extra gears, engineered by over-achieving bankers, rather than essential market cogs.
Steampunk is also characterized by showing the inner workings of an item, such as cogs and gears, as a design element.
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Its interlocking cogs of power and influence -- geopolitical, regional, governmental, tribal, mineral, criminal, spiritual, clan and family -- are fiendishly complex.
All three players said that they love the pressure of being relied on, and getting a chance to be lineup cogs once again.
Caring is about a whole series of cogs working together, but if just one comes unstuck that can tip you over the edge, she says.
Most of the people camped on Reforma, far from constituting an independent social movement, were cogs in the political machine built by the former mayor.
The clock has a sophisticated mechanism, working with many giant cogs.
Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.
As cogs in a larger, purposeful machine, people become alienated from the traditional morals that guide human relationships as they pursue the goal of the collective organisation.
Local partners or franchise-holders of foreign firms are typically middlemen who oil cogs and grease palms so that the outsiders can get on with selling their goods.
The big question for anyone who deals with young people today is how we can go about bringing these cogs of the teenage mind into sync once again.
In its January 2011 report, the US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission called the agencies "essential cogs in the wheel of financial destruction" and "key enablers of the financial meltdown".
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If Apple only moves production of one segment of its Macintosh product line, as reports indicate, the total shift in COGS could amount to less than 1 percent in 2013.
On the cost side, we do have more concerns, particularly around the COGS excluding TAC and amortization of intangibles (which we think is a more appropriate view of costs to run the business).
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And, whatever your opinion of the individual cogs, Strachan has built a playing machine that has proven capable of shifting up the necessary gears whenever there appeared to be challenge from any of their SPL rivals.
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Inventory days, calculated as inventories divided by cost of goods sold (COGS) then multiplied by 365, are more than three days above the full-year 2010 level, indicating privately owned retailers are gearing up for an expected sales increase.
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Now the letters of the threads that run continuously beneath the live reporting look to me like the cogs of a virtual flywheel, one that spins ever faster as it tries to provide our inertial present with motive force.
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Excluding non-cash expenses, COGS increased 4% year over year primarily due to an increase in customer premise equipment sales since the launch of our no contract retail model, which requires customers to purchase rather than lease devices, at the beginning of 2012.
No, its ride-leveling suspension and adaptive dampening won't turn it into a 540i, nor can you completely ignore the fact that it has a four-speed transmission (every other car in this class gets at least five cogs in the shift box) that sends power through the front, not back wheels.
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