Let's pretend you're a DP and you've priced out an Alexa Mini kit & some nice primes for a 2 day small commercial shoot.
When you pick up the gear, one of the lenses has an issue, so you decide to go for a different lens kit. The cost differential is $500.
How do you deal with this? Do you bother the producer, or just assume they trust you to do what's best?
Or let's say you put the bid together, and then your normal gaffer gets booked, and your second choice is an extra $100/day?
Do you just swallow these costs? Or would you run every additional $ by the producer?
How often is your estimate matched with the final cost of the shoot?
Any real world examples here would be great to hear about. Thanks!
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I’m looking for a term that describes when fixed costs (let’s say, accounting department and facilities services, etc) are typically non-variable and not correlated to revenue unless it hits a certain threshold. IE - you need to start increasing admin wages because the increase in revenue is related to an increase in workload which is causing turnover
It’s like the inverse of a relevant range basically
Hello, peoples.
I'm relatively new to AWS and have not found a simple way to calculate potential variable costs as my startup scales, particularly all the different prices for different services being used.
Essentially, I'm trying to calculate the approx. costs for our app, assuming
- X number of users join per week
- Each user downloads X bytes of data (read messages, profile info, etc)
- Each user uploads Y bytes of data (sent messages, profile photo, etc)
Our stack is
- One EC2 instance with a Docker container running a NodeJS REST API
- DynamoDB with tables currently for
- User accounts/info
- Group chat messages
Which may expand to
- 2nd EC2 instance for a staging server
- More DynamoDB tables for various features
Is there no easy way to calculate the potential costs for this, or am I just not yet aware of methods to do it?
Thanks for your help!
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If for example you own a pancakes houses are the ingredients fixed or variable? I already figured that the rent and the machines used are fixed so I guess the ingredients are variable?
Hey everyone, I wanted to get some thoughts on how to think about budgeting for variable costs. Specifically, does it make sense to look at this from an aggregate dollar basis (similar to OpEx) or is it better to hold operational teams to a unit economic budget (i.e. $ / user or $ / widget)?
The CFO generally cares about total $s however from an operational perspective teams look at this from a unit economic basis given they don't control top-line metrics like users or widgets (i.e. if the total number of widgets sold or users increases or decreases their total cost also increases or decreases which is not fair to them)
This is the first time our company is introducing formalized budgets to teams so I wanted to get some thoughts on what makes sense here as an approach. I am leaning towards the unit economic approach as we can always attribute some of the variances on total budget $s to top-line growth/decline. This will also make it easier to hold operational teams accountable for their figure.
For now, let's ignore the reality that if a top-line metric increased dramatically we might be able to improve our unit economics via scale or some other function.
Hello,
I live in Southern California and it does get really hot in summer. Anyway, my husband and I find our single stage unit pretty comfortable. The only reason that I am asking is because its on its last leg and I know I need to replace it. Will a stage or variable one save me money? We only care about money savings right now because our single stage is super comfortable as we speak.
Another thing to note is that we plan on moving states in 5 or so years.
So it would be a bedroom patio. Not too big. Just enough to have a little outside area. Probably looking at 10-15ft wide and come out about 7-9ft, probably 8. The cost I'm looking for would be supplies and to have someone pour the concrete. So we're assuming it would be me and a friend building it. Only labor we'd pay is the concrete guys (obviously we'd give our friend some pay). It would have a roof with gutter, railing (or balustrade according to google, if that's correct), door, and it'd be screened in. My gf said about $10k altogether. I said it could be done for $3-5k for the supplies and concrete guys. Thanks in advance!
