Sentence examples for forecasts costs from inspiring English sources

This year's budget forecasts costs of nearly $12 billion for sick pay and disability pensions more than 10% of the government's total spending.Why?

The company said it had forecast costs of about $150 million.

But forecasting costs decades into the future is as much luck as it is judgement.

The fundamental problem is that is simply impossible to forecast costs and schedule with any accuracy.

A cost study in Missouri concerned a proposed photo-ID law forecast costs of $6m the first year and $4m recurring.

It adds: "Yet only seven months later the department chose to delay the whole project, adding £674m to forecast costs".

The National Audit Office has highlighted "a broad pattern…where increased forecast costs for venues are offset by reduced forecasts elsewhere including site preparation and infrastructure".

"One reason for increased forecast costs was the global slump in fossil fuel prices, a development which energy market experts in general were not expecting".

Alan Roufa, administrative manager for the East Plant, plans to develop a method for employees to track and forecast costs for each piece of equipment in their departments.

She said the company had shown "a lack of ability to forecast costs and to set prices appropriately and seemed to have difficulty managing costs to the degree that other companies are achieving".

They suggest that energy planners need to forecast costs and schedules more realistically by integrating the empirical evidence for similar projects.