This company manages to rent luxury fashion at a fraction of the actual cost.
Most agree, however, that the actual cost to the American church is far higher.
Strip that value out, and the percentage attributed to the actual cost of Chinese imports drops to just 1.2%.
Have you ever wondered about the actual cost of the products we buy?
It's still too early to determine the actual cost savings, however, says Ford.
The actual cost, in real terms, of many commodities has declined over the past four decades when measured in constant dollars.
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The goal of the Amendment was to make swipe fees reasonable and proportionate to the actual cost of processing a transaction.
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Some excesses have been abolished, such as flat-rate travel expenses often worth five times the actual cost of an air ticket.
The surcharge is supposed to equal the actual cost of processing the credit card transaction, which is typically 1.5 to 3%.
"The actual cost of doing nothing at this stage is going to be much greater than taking action, " Dr Faughnan added.
The reporting requirement under the new law will make many more taxpayers aware of the actual cost of their health care benefits.
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The third thing we do is we actually put in place a whole bunch of mechanisms to start reducing the actual cost of health care.
The discrepancy between the original cost and the actual cost came in part because contractors originally were "overly ambitious" when estimating the project, Fischer said.
Nucleus Research maintains the actual cost of a device makes up just 10 percent of the total cost of deploying that device in a business environment.
With insurance companies acting as the middleman and cutting deals with providers as they see fit, consumers rarely even know the actual cost of a medical service.
"We did no actual cost cutting, but we have watched costs very carefully, especially our payroll, which needs to be 30% to 32% of revenue, " he says.
On check-out when the sale transaction goes through, the actual cost of the stay is deducted, and that is when the balance of the earmarked sum is returned for your use.
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Frank also cites an American Bar Association ethics ruling suggesting law firms should only bill clients their actual cost plus a reasonable allocation of overhead, including the cost of outsourced legal work.
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When the younger and healthier segments of a population are excluded from an insurance pool (whatever the mechanical or financial reason), the rate for everyone else gets ever closer to actual cost.
For example, Bell Atlantic acknowledges in a New York filing that its actual cost of line sharing is zero, a significant admission, according to Dean Hardt, senior counsel for DSL CLEC Covad Communications.
Even his foes admit that perks in the European Parliament, such as the reimbursement of every flight at the highest available economy fare regardless of the actual cost, are unjustified and should be scrapped.
Robert Stephenson, son of George and one of the principal figures behind the expansion of Britain's railways, reckoned that a network that was just as productive could have been built for a third less than the actual cost.
You can plug in the actual cost for an item, if you have a receipt (or can get a copy of one from the previous owner), or pick among price ranges the software generates based on national market surveys.
To make modern electronics like the Sharp touch screens for Apple the actual parts cost is near zero.
It represents the actual yearly cost of funds over the term of the loan and includes any fees or additional costs.
You should have professionals take a detailed look at the home, but understand that the actual final cost of renovation will likely be higher than estimates.
Determining the actual marginal cost of production is somewhat tricky since the commodity is priced globally in dollars, but the bottom lines for South African mining companies are ultimately determined by the price they receive in South African rand, with their expenses also paid in rand.
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"The actual, real cost is still being hidden, " said Republic chief executive Graham Smith.
That number includes the cost of the actual Mars probe and its launch, as well as the cost of the NASA crew handling its journey to Mars for almost a year before it started transmitting.
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