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Adjusting to Cost Increases

Questions - 11 to 20 of 29

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All	Q#	Top 100	Question
	11		What is the most likely step that you would take to pay for this cost increase? Would you:?
	12		How likely is it that you would borrow or draw down on an existing line of credit to ease adjustment to these higher costs? Is it:?
	13		What is the most likely step that you would take to pay for this 15 percent physical facilities cost increase that begins next week?
	14		How likely is it that you would borrow or draw down on an existing line of credit to ease adjustment to these higher costs? Is it:?
	15		Approximately what percent of your total business expenses consists of your firm's physical facilities, i.e., rent or mortgage, utilities and maintenance, etc.? Would you estimate that the cost of your physical facilities constitutes ____ of total business expenses?
	16		How do your current selling prices compare with the selling prices of your principal competitor? Are they ____ than your principal competitor's?
	17		How competitive is the primary market in which your firm operates? Is it:?
	18		Since the beginning of the year, have your total energy costs risen:?
	19		Since the beginning of the year, what type of energy cost increase has impacted your business the most? Is it:?
	20A		(offset to energy price increases) Raised selling prices.

Volume 1, Issue 4, 2001
ISSN - 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation

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