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firm

adjective anchored, balanced, confirmed, durable, established, fast, fastened, firmus, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, indissoluble, inflexible, irremovable, moored, motionless, rigid, rooted, secure, seeurely fixed, set, settled, solid, solidus, sound, stabilis, stable, stanch, stationary, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, taut, unalterable, unbending, unmovable, unyielding
Associated concepts: firm offer

firm

noun association, bureau, business, business estabbishment, business house, commercial enterprise, commercial house, company, concern, enterprise, establishment, holding company, house, industry, institution, joint concern, office, organization, partnership
Associated concepts: corporation, law firm, professional corroration

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13 million pounds of wood materials handled on average per firm per year.

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A related theory is that the member firm (or umbrella entity) may be essentially the alter ego of another member firm.

Liability for someone else's sins: the risks of accounting firm alliances: protect your firm from vicarious liability

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The risk is small to the divesting firm because the CPA has already decided the divested clients are not clients it wants to retain; the firm was prepared to let them go.

Divesting clients wisely

Many buyers want to retain the name (branding) of the acquired firm to increase client retention.

Looking ahead: too often, CPAs ignore their own succession planning advice

In addition, succession planning, another hot topic for smaller firms, is addressed in the free PCPS white paper Preparing for Transition: The State of Succession Planning and How to Handle the Process in Your Firm (pcps.

Chair's corner

Taking a closer look at the symmetry of this conclusion [3], the reader is alerted that the focus is short-run, and that the firm produces a single product using one variable resource, labor.

Product and resource markets: points of symmetry

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A new, valuable tool for quantifying this contribution of insurance to a firm's ROE is value at risk, or VaR, a measure of the amount of capital a firm needs to survive an extreme loss.

Rethinking Retention

There's solace in that, from a client's standpoint -- dealing with someone whose title assumes dominance in the firm.

...By any other name

Ideally, a client should be free to contract with a firm for the provision of services, including a combination of legal and other services, with enough regulation only to prevent force and fraud.

Attorney Privilege

The bank and the company's shareholders sued the accounting firm for accounting malpractice.