The phrase "proprietary cost" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the cost of an item that is exclusive to a particular company. For example, "The company charges a proprietary cost for its unique software, making it difficult for competitors to replicate."
We find product-related questions are associated with non-answers, and this association is stronger when competition is more intense, suggesting product-related information has higher proprietary cost.
In a news conference on July 24, Peter B. Teets, under secretary of the Air Force, said "the quality of information was sufficient to provide great insight into Lockheed Martin's proprietary cost and pricing".
Cost of Living Alone: Our proprietary Cost of Living Alone index is determined by the average cost of a metro area's apartment rent, a Pizza Hut pizza, a movie ticket and a six-pack of Heineken.
Cost of Living Alone: Our proprietary cost of living alone index is determined by the average cost of a metro area's apartment rent, a movie ticket and a six-pack of Heineken.
Cost Of Living Alone: Our proprietary Cost Of Living Alone index is determined by the average cost of a metro area's apartment rents, Pizza Hut pizza, a movie ticket and six-pack of Heineken.
Furthermore, since the introduction of hemodiafiltration in the CHUM in November 2007 (coinciding with the beginning of the CONTRAST study), proprietary cost data were collected in addition to CONTRAST data in the hospital for an independent cost analysis of the two treatments.
Producing, disseminating and verifying information is costly, and disclosures can cause competitive harm and proprietary costs.
Thus, the beneficial cost of equity capital effect might set off potential disadvantages of voluntary strategy disclosures, e.g., proprietary costs resulting from competitors exploiting a firm's strategy disclosures to their own benefit, or simply resulting from the cost of providing a comprehensive strategy report.
In such cases, information on strategy would only be used by investors under very restrictive conditions, e.g., if strategy disclosures were perceived as inducing proprietary costs on the firm side through damaging its competitive position in product markets (Verrecchia 1983; Gigler 1994).
Automotive research website Edmunds.com does it for you with its proprietary True Cost to Own formula, which takes note of where you live to calculate your average five-year cost for depreciation, financing, taxes, fees, insurance premiums, fuel costs, maintenance and repairs on a range of new and used vehicles.
And a packet of proprietary aspirin cost euro3.70 in Athens, but euro12.90 in Rome and Berlin.How can such differences be justified?
