What Is a Prime Cost? Prime costs are a firm’s expenses directly related to the materials and labor used in production. It refers to a manufactured product’s costs, which are calculated to ensure the best profit margin for a company. The prime cost calculates the direct costs of raw materials and labor that are involved in…
We can tell ourselves that no, in real life, we’re not that old, even if we don’t really understand all of them expressions of generation Z, there are moments that quickly bring us back to the passage of time, and a little too quickly for our taste. We talk in particular about this moment when…
When fans have something in mind they usually make it known, and if you touch their favorite series they clearly won’t let it go. It has happened several times in history that fans have pressured a production to prevent the deletion of their favorite series and that it works (even if it remains rare). Westworld…
Cloud software giant salesforce.com, inc. (CRM) beat earnings estimates for the 12th consecutive quarter on Feb. 25, but the shares saw muted upside. Salesforce stock had set its all-time intraday high of $195.72 on Feb. 20 but could not set a new high on the positive earnings report. A warning is that the stock failed…
Received ideas still have a bright future ahead of them. The proof, the statistics may have invalidated them for a long time, we continue to believe in them (well, some continue). So we’re going to restore the truth a little in all this fabric of lies in which we get tripped up like fawns with…
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW) reported mixed earnings results when it disclosed quarterly numbers on Feb. 26. The home improvement giant beat earnings per share (EPS) estimates but missed on revenue. Lowe’s shares set an all-time intraday high of $126.73 on Feb. 20 and then crashed on the disappointing results. The stock initially held its quarterly…
Life has funny ways of reminding us that we are nothing, that we don’t matter and that if we died right now, it wouldn’t change anything in the world overall. Yeah sorry, that’s hard to hear, but at the same time, it’s true. Anyway, sometimes life sends us passive-aggressive signals that aren’t bad enough to…
Eliminating the U.S. government’s debt is a Herculean task that could take decades. In addition to obvious steps, such as simply hiking taxes and slashing spending, the government could take a number of other approaches, some of them unorthodox and even controversial. Below are some things it could do. Opening the Borders This would be…
Historical series and other biopics are hot. Even if they regularly contain a few errors, like one or two anachronisms that would make historians cry, it’s still one of the best ways to get people interested in History (even the most recent). Only, they often fall into a big mistake by casting actors and actresses…