Chrysler's efforts to cut $1 billion from corporate costs in 1990 were regarded by analysts as ambitious, even before the guaranteed rebates.

This should have reduced corporate and Government cost of travel, but seems not to have done so.

Information technology costs are often the greatest corporate cost after total compensation costs and property related costs.

Lower rates are good for stocks largely because they reduce corporate costs.

Also unlike many other retail chains, Discount Drug kept corporate costs exceptionally low.

That means corporate costs could rise and cut into earnings growth.

The same deceleration also applies to the corporate cost of health insurance and other benefits.

That, opponents say, would hold down corporate costs and reduce take-home pay for workers.

But as more companies organize their workers into teams, the human and corporate costs are also becoming more evident.

To offset increased corporate costs, the state assumes the financing of unemployment insurance, suppressing the 8.8 percent payroll tax.