Having more than your family needs opens the opportunity to trade the excess for profit.
They could book the excess returns as profit, making the firms look good and generating higher compensation for the managers.
In other words, the Law of One Price refers to the profit margins, or the excess of price over cost, and not just the price.
All older companies accumulate excess baggage -- a militant, profit-crushing union, an outmoded sales channel or even (a problem unique to our day) legacy shareholders and analysts.
Over the past several decades, hordes of for-profit institutions have sprung up to capture the excess demand for higher education in the market, making some insiders very wealthy in the process.
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Sageworks adjusts net profit margins to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
Profit growth has slowed sharply over the past year because of excess capacity in the most over-invested sectors, such as cement and steel.
Net profit margins are adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
Net profit margin has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
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The Wiki boss has often said that his free, not-for-profit online encyclopaedia - that now gets seven billion page views each month with in-excess of five million multiple-language entries - was either the "smartest thing, or the dumbest thing that I ever did".
Net profit margin for the private companies has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
In addition, PRIs are exempted from the excess business holdings tax, generally imposed for investments that comprise more than a 20 percent interest in for-profit ventures, as well as the jeopardizing investment tax, generally imposed for investments that financially endanger the charitable work of the foundation.
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