The company prefers to look at profitability by stripping out a wide array of charges, such as redundancy payments and "vacant property provisions", and to focus on adjusted earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation.
Councillor Nickie Aiken, from Westminster City Council, said: "Westminster City Council was involved in piloting this scheme and we welcome these proposals to give disadvantaged children a head-start in their education, to simplify the guidance around early years provision, and to focus on quality teaching and care to improve the outcomes for our young children.
According to Whitfield, the purpose of classification is 'to identify deficiencies in the provision of care, to focus attention where improvements are already possible and to indicate where new developments or knowledge may be expected to lead to further advance' [ 15].
It is this third provision that I want to focus on.
Integrated provision could allow regulators to focus on how to hold providers to account and ensure local services work together to support patients in the round.
The priority at Food Bank has gone from the provision of mere calories to focus on nutritious food wherever possible.
Implications for Program Strategy: Since the private sector is not playing a prominent role in service provision, it would be sensible to focus program efforts on public-sector provision.
Republicans seem to be hoping they can steer the debate away from the actual provisions of the bill and to focus attention, instead, on the means by which it was passed.
You need someone you can say to, 'This is what I did, do you think I did the right thing?'" (A2) Other district support received included pharmaceutical distribution and assistance with accreditation and administrative activities, which enabled the sessional pharmacists to focus on provision of inpatient clinical services within the limited contracted time.
3) VCs are anal about things like voting thresholds, seniority of their stock, protective provisions, etc. – entrepreneurs never seem to focus on anything other than ownership percentage.
