The hybrid control strategy obtained the best profitability, achieving a simple pay-back period equal to 3.8 years, compared to 4.1 years achieved in case of electric-load tracking.
Despite the jump in pending sales, the public is still having a tough time obtaining financing, keeping a lid on prices and, consequently, profitability for builders.
In the future, the profitability of enterprises depends on their capability in obtaining innovative resources and transforming them into something of commercial value (Chesbrough et al. 2006).
Instead of the four stages (productivity, profitability, marketability and overall efficiency) proposed by Park and De [35], we used three stages (productivity, profitability, and overall efficiency) due to the difficulties in obtaining data measuring the marketability stage, namely customer satisfaction.
This is particularly so with organisations increasingly looking at obtaining quality products at the lowest prices as they strive to increase profitability.
This Tool Kit uses concrete examples to demonstrate how managers can obtain meaningful cost and profitability information, quickly and inexpensively.
This tool kit uses concrete examples to demonstrate how managers can obtain meaningful cost and profitability information quickly and inexpensively.
In such an analysis revenues, costs and investments are modelled to obtain assessments of project profitability and different strategies.
Equal profitability was obtained when second generation ethanol selling prices were set at values two to four times greater than the standard, with the most profitable 1G+2G+COGEN configuration having the greater efficiency at 44.4%.
In general, the greatest economic profitability was obtained if the implementation of SSCDF reduced labour requirements and increased technical performance; however, if the SSCDF implied only a reduction of labour requirements, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return were considerably lower for all types of farms and, in some cases, the investment was not justified.
