English-speaker, someone from a country that speaks english i.e. Britain, US; originating from term (Anglo) referring to early northern european peoples. He is an anglophone.
The Council On State Taxation (COST) is the premier state tax organization representing taxpayers. COST is a nonprofit trade association consisting of more than 600 multistate corporations engaged in interstate and international business. COST's objective is to preserve and promote equitable and nondiscriminatory state and local taxation of multijurisdictional business entities.
A fixed cost is a cost which is incurred for an accounting period, and which, within certain activity levels remains constant. Fixed costs can be shown graphically as follows: The total cost remains constant over a given level of activity but that the cost per unit falls as the level of activity increases.