Lawyers would be free to factor in the likely costs of the particular type of case in setting their percentage split, but they could have no detailed accounting for costs.
But cost-plus projects often leave some wiggle room in accounting for fixed costs ( see box, p. 66).
Also make sure that plentiful profit potential remains after accounting for development costs.
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Ericsson had predicted a gross margin, the proportion of revenue left after accounting for general costs, parts and labour, of about 36.5%.
Here, CAC is cost of customer acquisition, MRR is monthly recurring revenue and software margin is the cash they keep for each customer after accounting for support and other costs.
Fuel is the biggest single expense for airlines, accounting for about 30% of operating costs.
Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.
Even if there was no profit, as was often the case after accounting for the owner's financing costs, the management company could be sure to stay comfortably in the black.
They found that cardiac disease was the most expensive to treat - accounting for 44% of direct healthcare costs associated with weight problems - while back pain was the biggest cause of workplace absenteeism.
No expense is harder to control than labor, typically accounting for 25% to 35% of costs in such mine construction and most of the overruns.
It turns out that even after accounting for growth in the economy, these hidden costs are growing three times faster than health entitlements themselves.
Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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Obesity-related problems, such as diabetes, were now accounting for between 2% and 6% of health care costs in most countries.
This is due to the fact that the Securities Law of 1933 mandated prohibitively high requirements for disclaimer, disclosure and reporting that made it nearly impossible for the average startup to raise money without incurring extremely high accounting and legal costs.
The company should already be charging the most it can for that marginal phone call and a change in sunk costs might affect accounting profit but not that revenue maximising price charged.
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"Our management's determination to change to the preferred method of accounting for employee stock options ensures that our earnings will more clearly reflect economic reality when all compensation costs are recorded in the financial statements, " said Coca-Cola Chairman and Chief Executive Douglas Daft in a statement.
But, as attention has focused on accounting standards, concerns have been raised in particular about how support services firms treat the large costs run up bidding for public private partnership contracts, such as hospital construction projects.
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