1. With markets falling and input prices rising, this is the ideal time to put them to the test.

2. The input price index dropped to 60.2 in August, the lowest level this year, from July's 63.1, indicating that "the prices level is stabilizing", Cai said in the statement.

3. Variances caused by both price differences and quantity differences are assigned to the category of input price variances.

4. If you calculate variances at the end of the period, the system recalculates input price variances, providing you specified quantities in addition to the costs for the postings.

5. " Therefore, the East India Company's tea monopoly of distribution in North America Colonial, the input price of tea in a more "private tea" 50 percent cheaper.

6. The companies polled for both indexes said that input costs rose in January, with HSBC cautioning that input price inflation was the strongest since July 2008.

7. A number of measures of inflation in the US have already started to decelerate, indicating that companies are absorbing input price increases into margins.