With its high fixed cost structure, UNOPS has found it difficult to operate smaller, transaction intensive services on the basis of full cost recovery.

Moreover, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) continues to provide the secretariat with administrative support services relating to treasury and payroll on a cost reimbursement basis.

The Under Secretary General for Internal Oversight indicated that the support costs were related mainly to auditing services, however, and that investigation services were charged at cost.

In line with the new approach of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the contracts for the aircraft were based on a cost structure calculated on actual hours rather than block hours.

The Inspectors prepared a savings analysis, which is based on the cost per payslip currently borne by the different United Nations system organizations, compared with benchmark organizations.

(b) The UNIDO financial statements are prepared on the historical cost basis of accounting and have not been adjusted to reflect the effects of changing prices for goods and services.

It involves comparing the total expected cost of each option against the total expected benefits, to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs, and by how much.

26. Reaffirms the need for the procurement system to be transparent, open, impartial and cost effective, based on competitive bidding and fully reflecting the international character of the United Nations

This cost would be spread over several years.

Total cost

Cost

But you get about 80 percent of the way there, for about one percent of the cost.

Novartis has agreed to make these medicines available at the cost of production.

It's well worth the cost.

It is precisely this cost that helped motivate his soldiers.

It was well worth the cost.

Peacebuilding has a high cost, which is generally spread out over several years.

The overall cost increase is mostly the result of the weakening of the United States dollar, inflation and post related cost adjustments.

The fellowship programmes are conducted on an annual basis and participation is competition based.

In deciding against recosting the maintenance base of the budget section which related to the Development Account, the Secretariat had been guided by the Advisory Committee, which had opposed such a step in its second report on the Development Account (A 53 7 Add.1).

This cost dictates the display s competitive impact.

(v) Promoting access to low cost and effective drugs and related pharmaceutical products

Which exact kind is used depends on cost performance issues at any particular time.

In the discussion during the 2004 Meetings views were also expressed that the cost effectiveness and cost implications of the possible preventive measures were important considerations.

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Results based budgeting

Race Based Medicine?

Interviewer On what grounds?

Full time posts

United States of America

Accrual basis accounting

The rate would automatically adjust annually based on federal receipts in the previous fiscal year.

R.A. Mashelkar Breakthrough designs for ultra low cost products

Xcalibur published a photo of the aircraft and estimated the costs, saying

The costing variances are shown in table 12.

The total cost is 55.5 million.

(b) Cost effective delivery of services

Trade unions are recognised on a plant or establishment basis rather than on an industry wide basis.

Governments were advised that future selection will be based on merit and not national allocation.

Such a reform should be based not on present, but rather on future needs.

More than two million people were dying from tuberculosis, because they lacked access to low cost, first line treatment.

Among the low cost waste water treatment options available are anaerobic treatment systems, which have the advantage of simple construction and low cost maintenance.

(c) The accounting principles were applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding financial report

And the largest cost of major bank failures is not the subsidy, or the cost of a bailout.

They then clarify how the high cost of producing new knowledge is in favour of monopolies that are built around the production of knowledge and knowledge embedded goods.