A novel feature of their study was the use of CCTV footage from selected stores to determine whether losses could be attributable to customer or employee theft.
Based on this result, it is not surprising to recognize that the attractiveness of air travel (i.e., attributable to customer goodwill) is characterized by well-performing flight operations, equating to lesser passenger-related costs such as compensation plans due to delays, cancellations, denied boarding, and lost luggage, to name just a few.
Whereas CAC measures the variable expenses attributable to acquiring customers, overhead measures the company's fixed expenses incurred irrespective of the number of customers acquired.
The increase was attributable to big business customers, showing how Microsoft's products are entrenched in one of the most lucrative sectors of the technology market.
For example, one can find in these reports the peak load reduction by customer class in the U.S. In Fig. 1 (source: 2012 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering Staff Report), the largest portion of peak load reduction is attributable to commercial & industrial customers and wholesale market participants.
The consensus also held that the chain's recent drooping sales were attributable to a shift in its customers best described in two words: Lizzie McGuire.
Beginning in early 2000, the complaint says, NextCard began reclassifying losses attributable to nonpayment of bills by customers who were poor credit risks, categorizing the losses as fraudulent use of the credit cards.
But the customers' good fortune is attributable to bad news.
Some market-making revenue is attributable to fees and other costs borne by customers, but some is from price movements in the securities the banks are holding – a source that might be classified as trading under the Volcker rule.
"The economic uncertainty attributable to the war comes up in conversations with customers, and it casts another layer of doubt," said Bruce Claflin, chief of 3Com, a producer of computer networking equipment.
