Interest rate risk, tax risk, business risk, purchasing power risk are all types of risk.
Borrowing costs have been cut nearly in half as creditors take note of diminishing business risk.
So even if there is not a significant cost penalty for water use, there is a very significant business risk.
These additional risks can be broken into four categories: investment risk, record-keeping risk, employer-business risk and regulatory risk.
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In other industries, though, recession should be viewed more as a confounding factor that magnifies existing business risk.
Those that created a capital structure that matched their business risk have survived and positioned themselves for future success.
These are "small but rapidly growing firms" that "show entrepreneurial skill, appetite for business risk and real international outlook".
Indeed, these efforts need to transcend "name and shame" tactics and should comprise the mitigation of legitimate business risk.
When these six factors indicate rising business risk, even a dollar of debt may be too much for some companies.
In fact, risk in capital structure should vary inversely with business risk.
The final test for such space venture investments must assess the bottom line on business risk versus justifiable and sustainable investment profits.
After its investment missteps with Chrysler and GMAC (before the government bailout), Cerberus is surely capable of recognizing a big business risk.
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In our March 2001 alert we identified four categories of risk related to 401(k)s: investment risk, record-keeping risk, employer-business risk and regulatory risk.
In September a U.S. district judge in Manhattan threw out his case, saying Ashton had "foolishly" assumed business risk without checking the veracity of Primedia's numbers.
We believe that DirecTV may need to make some strategic investment soon in order to better position itself against changing industry dynamics and diversify its business risk.
Besides Ooyala, recent births include Twitter, a social- networking site founded by the people who made Google's blog service, and WeatherBill, a site that lets you hedge business risk against downpours.
This is an assessment of business risk, after all.
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He wants to charge bookmakers 2.5% of their turnover, more than double the current levy, and scrap a pending profits-based scheme, which, he says, makes racing shoulder too much of the bookmakers' business risk.
These top four challenges, if left unsolved, can result in organizations that are slow to create change, projects that are harder to automate, increased tunnel vision among internal organizations, business risk and higher costs of IT operations.
With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.
How is it that the men and women who took risks, learned hard lessons, and displayed ingenuity and tenacity their entire lives, act like fearful procrastinators when it comes to managing the business risk of retirement and succession?
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Merk noted that while measures such as body scans will not prevent the virus from spreading, it does reduce panic and the sense of helplessness, which Merk noted are key factors in contributing to the overall individual and business risk appetite.
This greatly reduces its business risk.
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Whereas in the past companies had to pitch in with investment and planning skills to develop their business, they must now attract, assemble and manage a large community of independent third parties who must be prepared to take on significant business risk on behalf of the sponsor company.
Whereas in the past companies had to pitch in with substantail direct investment and resources to develop their business, they must now attract, assemble and manage a large community of independent third parties who must be prepared to take on significant business risk on behalf of the sponsor company.
"It will vary according to the mineral group and project life cycle but we are likely to see investors looking elsewhere in the region ... particularly if the South African government doesn't come out quite strongly and say what its plans for the sector are going forward, " says Simiso Velempini, South Africa analyst for global business risk consultancy Control Risks.
These should not be projects that put the business at risk, but prove the technology and business cases around the use of cloud.
Now, Nike is seen as a leader in sustainability because it addressed these issues that in essence put its entire business at risk.
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