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Materials Flow--The average amount of materials reported handled annually by firms engaged in both deconstruction and retail reuse sales was about 1.01 million pounds per firm, compared to 583,376 pounds per firms only engaged in reuse retail sales.
Window shopping: retail reuse stores provide an outlet for material from deconstruction projects
It's common for accounting firm alliances to use a shared trade name; otherwise, the marketing synergies--one of the key reasons to form an alliance--would be diminished.
Liability for someone else's sins: the risks of accounting firm alliances: protect your firm from vicarious liability
What's new and exciting about ERM is its focus on managing risk (and not just income) as a means of enhancing a firm's value, its insistence on measuring risk in ways that can be compared and combined, and its emphasis on managing a firm's total risk rather than the piecemeal risks that comprise it.
ERM report card: does Enterprise Risk Management really deserve all the attention it's been getting?
But, imagine your firm has identified the right successor, how do you negotiate the buy-sell agreement?
The insider: well planned and structured agreement key to successful internal succession
Though separated from Ford only since December, says CD & R partner Nate Sleeper, the buyout firm is already registering performance improvements.
Quest for returns boosts private equity: leveraged buyouts and other deals led by private equity firms are all the rage these days. Insipid stock market returns have brought institutional funds flocking to private equity, which is now able to buy very large, complex companies
This is true precisely because a divesting firm truly is selling off a small part of its business.
Divesting clients wisely
The savvy firm reengineers inefficiencies, layers in controls, thereby creating overall process improvements.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: benefits for the private firm
The majority of our members practicing in public accounting firms are working in smaller firms.
Chair's corner
The first issue elaborated on is the general similarity that exists between a profit-maximizing ppm marking up marginal cost to determine the optimal price to charge consumers, and a profit-maximizing rpm marking down marginal revenue product to determine the wage to offer workers, labor assumed to be the firm's one variable resource.
Product and resource markets: points of symmetry
One extremely successful technique employed by the firm was the eventual development of a standard set of competitive research information products that are "pushed out" to actual and potential internal customers on a set schedule.
Competitive intelligence in action: how do organizations use competitive intelligence, and what can it mean to their success? Two case studies illustrate different approaches and results
RIS International is another internationally-minded local firm, which is especially confident in handling immigration issues, real estate investment and corporate registration for foreign startups in Japan.
Law firms going global in Japan. (Special Advertising Section: Law Firms in Japan)
It challenges your goodwill allocation, pointing out that a major portion of the acquired firm's revenues were derived from products highly dependent upon patent protection for their success.
Intangible assets: A ticking time bomb. (Chief Concern)

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