Firms need to know which other software products their product must work with ( e. g. operating systems ) to provide the most usability for the customer.

Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.

Firms under imperfect competition have the potential to be " price makers ", which means that, by holding a disproportionately high share of market power, they can influence the prices of their products.

Firms with superior software thus have an incentive to offer samples, except if their product is already well known, or if they do not want to be listed in direct competition with other products on shareware repositories.

Firms are required to hold a number of permits ( or allowances or carbon credits ) equivalent to their emissions.

Firms that keep their emission levels below their allotted level may sell their surplus permits to other firms or use them to offset excess emissions in other parts of their facilities.

Firms can spend as little as one or two months raising capital when they are able to reach the target that they set for their funds relatively easily, often through gaining commitments from existing investors in their previous funds, or where strong past performance leads to strong levels of investor interest.

Firms are able to apply their core competencies, business model or network to achieve a profit above the industry average.

Firms also face different degrees of competition in markets for their products.

* Firms are never too sure about the shape of their demand curve neither are they very sure about the probable response to any price change.

Of course one needs to note that Equity capital has the highest cost in the long run, as a firm needs to demonstrate higher return on investment for its shareholders Firms can also combine the three types of financing, angel / venture, factoring and bank line of credit to further reduce their total cost of funds whilst at the same time improving cash flow.

Firms producing VNRs disagree and equate their use to a press release in video form and point to the fact that editorial judgement in the worthiness, part or whole, of a VNR's content is still left in the hands of Journalists, Program Producers or the like.

Firms who can achieve economies by increasing their scale of industrial activities benefit from agglomeration.

Firms may also be able to design self-selection or screening devices that induce workers to reveal their true characteristics.

The Headhunters or originally the ' Chelsea Shed boys ' can trace their roots to the late 1960s, when football hooliganism was in its infancy and along with West Ham's ' Mile End Mob ' were one of the original Football Firms.

The SC never provided any professional services ( which were provided in each country by a Member Firm ) and did not pay any of its individual members ( who were partners in the individual Member Firms and received any remuneration to which they were entitled through their Member Firm ).

On returning from their year abroad, students are required to specialise in one of the three following categories: International Relations, Economics and Firms or Public Administration.

In their final year, they specialise even more, e. g. students of the " Economics and Firms " branch may select three distinct Masters 2: " Gestion financière de la banque " Management of Banks, " Pratique des marchés financiers " Markets in Practice or " Corporate Finance and Strategy in the EU " ( taught in English ).

Firms should supply their DUNS number, and notify the requester of the discontinuation of the ACASS number, when asked for their ACASS number.

Firms will choose the least-cost way to comply with the pollution regulation, which will lead to reductions where the least expensive solutions exist, while allowing emissions that are more expensive to reduce.

Firms must determine when lost sales due to not having product on the shelves are balanced by increased handling and storage costs.

Firms compete by setting prices simultaneously and consumers want to buy everything from a firm with a lower price ( since the product is homogeneous and there are no consumer search costs ).

Firms can also exhibit effective demands or supplies that differ from notional demands or supplies.

Firms that specialize in delivering commercial goods from point of production or storage to point of sale are generally known as distributors, while those that specialize in the delivery of goods to the consumer are known as delivery services.

Firms provide consumers with goods and services in exchange for consumer expenditure and " factors of production " from households.

Following the substantial growth of the consulting services practices of the Member Firms, and the decision taken by the members of the SC to divide the individual national practices of Arthur Andersen into two separate sets of entities-Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting-in 1977, pressure primarily from the consulting partners led to an agreed change of name of the SC to Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative.

Firms that simply do not wish to change their strategy or products and incur sunk costs from “ cannibalizing ” or changing the core of their business, fall victim to this inertia.

Firms operating outside of the special " enterprise zones " ( either privately run, export-processing zones or government sponsored free zones ) enjoy many of the same benefits as those operating within the zones.

Firms that gain new practice areas or departments through recruiting or mergers that are more complex and demanding ( and typically more profitable ) may see the focus, organization and resources of the firm shift dramatically towards those new departments.

Firms like Mitsui and Sumitomo were led by non-family managers such as Minomura Rizaemon, who guided the business by accurately forecasting the coming political and economic situations, by acquaintance with high-ranking government officials or politicians, and bold investment.

Firms competing included Paul Cret and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary ; McKim, Mead, and White ; H. Van Buren Magonigle ; John Russell Pope ; John Latenser & Sons ; and Bertram G. Goodhue, who was not considered originally for the competition.

Firms combine labour and capital, and can achieve far greater economies of scale ( when the average cost per unit declines as more units are produced ) than individual market trading.

Firms are often small to medium in size and operate in the building and building materials ( Rome, Civitavecchia ), paper ( Sora ), petrochemical ( Gaeta, Rome ), textile ( Frosinone ), engineering ( Rieti, Anagni ), automobile ( Cassino ), electronic and electrotechnical ( Viterbo ) sectors.

Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.

Firms will often enter the industry in the long run.

* Council of Public Relations Firms U. S. trade association for public relations firms

* Juliet D ’ Souza, William L. Megginson ( 1999 ), " The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatised Firms during the 1990s ", Journal of Finance August 1999

Firms will produce additional output as long as the cost of producing an extra unit of output is less than the price they will receive.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

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Firms would make rational decisions by weighing the sacrifices involved.

Firms such as Boeing, General Motors, Allen-Bradley, Chrysler, Eaton, and Whirlpool have worked on fuzzy logic for use in low-power refrigerators, improved automotive transmissions, and energy-efficient electric motors.

Ernst & Young was ranked No. 1 in the Forbes Magazine < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s The Best Accounting Firms to Work For in 2012, claiming that EY treats its employees better than other big firms.

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Firms hire them because they see the inflation as allowing higher profits for given nominal wages.

Firms face a kinked demand curve if, when one firm decreases its price, other firms will follow suit in order to maintain sales, and when one firm increases its price, its rivals are unlikely to follow, as they would lose the sales ' gains that they would otherwise get by holding prices at the previous level.