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  2. Allowance (money) - Wikipedia

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    An allowance is an amount of money given or allotted usually at regular intervals for a specific purpose. [1] In the context of children, parents may provide an allowance ( British English : pocket money ) to their child for their miscellaneous personal spending.

  3. Glossary of construction cost estimating - Wikipedia

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    A Allocation of costs is the transfer of costs from one cost item to one or more other cost items. Allowance - a value in an estimate to cover the cost of known but not yet fully defined work. As-sold estimate - the estimate which matches the agreed items and price for the project scope. B Basis of estimate (BOE) - a document which describes the scope basis, pricing basis, methods ...

  4. Fixed-price contract - Wikipedia

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    According to the PMBOK (7th edition) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Fixed Price Economic Price Adjustment Contract (FPEPA) is a "fixed-price contract, but with a special provision allowing for predefined final adjustments to the contract price due to changed conditions, such as inflation changes, or cost increases (or decrease) for special commodities".

  5. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  6. Capital cost - Wikipedia

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    Capital costs are fixed, one-time expenses incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction, and equipment used in the production of goods or in the rendering of services. In other words, it is the total cost needed to bring a project to a commercially operable status.

  7. Consumption of fixed capital - Wikipedia

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    The Capital Consumption Allowance (CCA) is the portion of the gross domestic product (GDP) which is due to depreciation. The Capital Consumption Allowance measures the amount of expenditure that a country needs to undertake in order to maintain, as opposed to grow, its productivity .

  8. Allowance - Wikipedia

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    Allowance may refer to: Allowance (engineering), a planned deviation between two dimensions; Allowance (money), an amount of money given at regular intervals for a specific purpose; Allowance for bad debts in accounting; Carbon emission trading as an economic tool in climate change mitigation Emissions trading for pollutants in general

  9. Employee benefits - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Labor Statistics, [3] like the International Accounting Standards Board, [4] defines employee benefits as forms of indirect expenses. Managers tend to view compensation and benefits in terms of their ability to attract and retain employees, as well as in terms of their ability to motivate them.