Examples of offset in the following topics:
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- The company made its purchase under the belief that laws would soon be enacted that limited carbon emissions and that these same laws would probably give companies struggling to reduce their carbon emissions the option of offsetting them.
- (Ellison, Katherine, ‘Shopping for Carbon Credits') A growing number of businesses have since climbed onto the bandwagon by allowing customers to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits.
- For example, some airlines will voluntarily add a few dollars to the price of their tickets and several power companies provide the option of paying a higher monthly fuel bill to help offset carbon emissions.
- In other examples, Range Rover automobiles offered an emissions offset for the first 45,000 miles (72,000 kilometres) which was factored into their purchase price and a ski resort in Vail, Colorado, once enticed skiers to buy energy credits to help buy a wind turbine so in the future the skiers will be carbon-neutral when they are lifted to the top of a nearby mountain.
- Brokers have been known to skim as much as 60% off of carbon-offsetting investments as they're passed from one middleman to another, tree-planting schemes have been found to be non-existent, and some solar energy projects have reportedly turned out to be little more than scams.
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- 15% was used to offset heat build-up from the roof, and
- In other words, 78% of the building's cooling needs were needed to offset wasteful inefficiencies (basically, one poorly designed system was fighting against that of another and the bill-payer was funding both sides).
- For either a small or big business, these costs create significant money loss, but can they always be offset?
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- Along the same lines, companies use hedging techniques to offset potential gains and losses.
- Hedging is the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment.
- Companies often use hedging techniques to offset the risk of price fluctuation for commodities, such as oil or agricultural products.
- Companies often use hedging techniques to offset price fluctuations for commodities.
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- For an expense to be recognized under the matching principle, it must be both incurred and offset against recognized revenues.
- For an expense to be recognized, the obligation must be both incurred and offset against recognized revenues.
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- Offset agreement: Party A and Country B enter a contract where Party A agrees to buy sugar from Country B to manufacture candy.
- Offset: Agreement that a company will offset a hard currency purchase of an unspecified product from that nation in the future.
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- Make an offsetting adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings for that period; and
- Non-counterbalancing errors are those that will not be automatically offset in the next accounting period.
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- The firm should still continue to produce because additional sales would offset a portion of fixed costs.
- The revenue gained from sales of these products do not offset variable and fixed costs.
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- Unsterilized transactions do not offset the change in the money supply when the Fed intervenes in the foreign exchange market, while sterilized transactions, the Fed uses open-market operations to offset any potential change in the money supply as it intervenes in the foreign exchange market.
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- The good news is that extra costs associated with going green (if there are any) can usually be offset by making production processes more efficient and sustainable.
- To offset this belief, some organizations advocate being modest when announcing a product's greenness and to refrain from announcing any green intentions until after an improvement in quality has been detected by consumers.
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- This idea of limiting outsourcing in light of the protectionist jobs argument has resulted in governmental subsidies that work to offset the costs of manufacturing domestically (in the U.S. particularly).
- Offsetting the threats of outsourcing and trade imbalances and driving domestic purchasing, and thus domestic production, is done through a variety of political vehicles.
- Anti-dumping:Anti-dumping legislation actively offsets the ability of low cost or highly subsidized producers in foreign countries to undercut prices in a domestic system.