This document provides guidance on sourcing and negotiating relocation services. It notes that relocation management companies will focus on quick savings rather than long-term benefits. It recommends conducting a market analysis to understand a company's affiliates to avoid conflicts of interest. The three key areas to focus on are home sale costs, new home purchases, and household goods movement, which make up 66% of relocation costs. Controlling subcontractors for these areas allows for competitive bidding to reduce total costs.
Show Finance the Money – How Compliance Can Drive Achievable Savings to the B...SAP Ariba
Achieving compliance is a critical factor in realizing your true savings potential – and seeing it through to the bottom line. Join Accenture as we explore the Closed Loop method, highlighting the benefits of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay, to help you achieve and keep savings. See how key technology applications can help you do the work in attaining and maintaining compliance. Understand what parts of the Closed Loop method are essential to linking procurement and finance in this journey. And finally, hear client case studies in which compliance has been achieved, and how procurement organizations are successfully going about this every day.
A summary of Extel 2018 final results which includes the following:
- Foreward from David Enticknap (Head of Extel & Managing Director)
- Methodology
- Voter Demographics
- Major Awards
- Interview with Best Overall Broker: Exane BNP Paribas
- Interview with Best Overall Sales: Kepler Cheuvreux
- Interview with Best UK Small & Mid Caps: Numis Securities
- Interview with Best Independent Research: Absolute Strategy Research
If you would like a high resolution copy, please contact extel@institutionalinvestor.com
Seven Key Things to Consider When Outsourcing Customs ProcessingJonathan Robinson
Outsourcing may be one of the hottest topics in business today. But what's most important for customs brokers to consider when outsourcing? Selecting the right outsourcing business partner? Protecting your business from the risks associated with the practice?
This free report from Portway International highlights the seven most important factors to understand when considering outsourcing, so you can make an informed decision for your organization.
Show Finance the Money – How Compliance Can Drive Achievable Savings to the B...SAP Ariba
Achieving compliance is a critical factor in realizing your true savings potential – and seeing it through to the bottom line. Join Accenture as we explore the Closed Loop method, highlighting the benefits of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay, to help you achieve and keep savings. See how key technology applications can help you do the work in attaining and maintaining compliance. Understand what parts of the Closed Loop method are essential to linking procurement and finance in this journey. And finally, hear client case studies in which compliance has been achieved, and how procurement organizations are successfully going about this every day.
A summary of Extel 2018 final results which includes the following:
- Foreward from David Enticknap (Head of Extel & Managing Director)
- Methodology
- Voter Demographics
- Major Awards
- Interview with Best Overall Broker: Exane BNP Paribas
- Interview with Best Overall Sales: Kepler Cheuvreux
- Interview with Best UK Small & Mid Caps: Numis Securities
- Interview with Best Independent Research: Absolute Strategy Research
If you would like a high resolution copy, please contact extel@institutionalinvestor.com
Seven Key Things to Consider When Outsourcing Customs ProcessingJonathan Robinson
Outsourcing may be one of the hottest topics in business today. But what's most important for customs brokers to consider when outsourcing? Selecting the right outsourcing business partner? Protecting your business from the risks associated with the practice?
This free report from Portway International highlights the seven most important factors to understand when considering outsourcing, so you can make an informed decision for your organization.
Relocating for a new job position can be an extremely taxing experience. To lessen this burden, some companies have historically included relocation assistance as part of job offers to candidates who will need to move for a new position, typically with the caveat that the employee must remain with the company for a certain period of time. In this article, we explore whether relocation assistance is still something today’s job candidates should expect.
When it comes to scrutinizing costs, most insurance companies can say “Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt.” Managers are familiar with the refrain from above to trim here and cut there. The typical result is flirtation with the latest management trends like lean, outsourcing and offshoring, and others. However, the results tend to be the same. Budgets reflect last year’s spend plus or minus a couple of percent in the same places.
If you’re looking to streamline sales cycles, increase deal sizes, eliminate risk from your
financial agreements, and improve collaboration between Sales, Finance, Legal, and
Operations, you’ve come to the right place...! Experience the next-generation of Solution platform value vs just looking at CPQ or CLM. In this guide, you will find a step-by-step overview of the Quote-to-Cash process, and the
challenges—and opportunities—of each stage, so you can manage the Quote-to-Cash
process more proactively, and take the steps needed to drive better business results.
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What motivate managers and/or managerial accountants of global corporations to set transfer-pricing policies? What are the ethical implications do you see in applying transfer-pricing policies? Explain your answer and provide some examples.
(300 words)
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Why do some managers tend to
(a) inappropriately ignore opportunity cost. Explain your answer and provide some examples; AND
(b) inappropriately consider sunk cost in the decision-making process. Explain your answer and provide some examples
(300 words
)
Also, need two replies 200 words each for each Disc ussion........
Reply 1,2:
1:
It is only recently that transfer pricing has been able to gain such popularity among marketers. It has been seen that Tax policy and administration concerning international transactions, aggressive tax planning, and tax avoidance, have become a rising issue (Cooper et al., 2017). Transfer pricing is the value of goods and services at which these goods and services are transferred from one unit to another unit of a company. Transfer pricing is set for intermediate products that are supplied by the selling division to buying division. For example, when a subsidiary company sells goods or services to its sister company the price that is charged is known as transfer pricing. The main thing that motivates the top management to conduct transfer pricing is to avoid tax payments and increase the profit of the organization.
2:
It is to be remembered that an organization is functioning so that it is able to make some profits and this can be made possible with the help of transfer pricing. However, it is also to be noted that transfer pricing is an unethical practice. It is known to be an ethical practice because it is used for evading taxations and for the misrepresentation of the financial stability of an organization. It is to be remembered that transfer pricing might have a negative impact on the investments that are made by multinational corporations (De Mooij, & Liu,2020). Although transfer pricing is able to create pause react it is not able to add any value. It is very important for organizations to ensure that they are functioning in the most ethical way so that they can ensure their stability and sustainability in the market. The methods that are used for transfer policy are- Comparable Uncontrolled Price Method, The Resale Price Method, The Cost Plus Method,
Transactional Profit Methods,
The Profit Split Method, and The Comparable Profits Method (Gjorgieva-Trajkovska et al., 2019).
Reference
Cooper, J., Fox, R., Loeprick, J., & Mohindra, K. (2017). Transfer pricing and developing economies: A Handbook for policy makers and practitioners. The World Bank.
De Mooij, R., & Liu, L. (2020). At a cost: The real effects of transfer pricing regulations. IMF Economic Review, 68(1), 268-306.
Gjorgieva-Trajkovska, O., Svrtinov, V. G., Dimitrova, J., & Koleva, B. (2019). Transfer pricing–definition and methods. Knowledge International Journa.
The primary motivations for outsourcing are not surprising: 87 percent seek to reduce operating costs, 81 percent seek greater flexibility and scale, and 74 percent seek to standardize processes. Though outsourcing is the most favored strategies globally we still get to hear “outsourcing horror stories”. For both the parties to work harmoniously let’s look at some approaches towards outsourcing best practice.
Most sourcing organizations focus on direct procurement, potentially overlooking indirect procurement and missing key opportunities to reduce spend. As indirect purchases increasingly become a larger percentage of overall spend, for many organizations, indirect procurement can be a diamond in the rough. This article makes the arguement that the value of indirect procurement should not be overlooked.
This is my first professional writing and my first published writing as well, appeared in The Bangladesh Accountant (ICAB) January - March,2015. Here I reproduce the same for your valuable evaluation. It was on Financial Accounting.
Relocating for a new job position can be an extremely taxing experience. To lessen this burden, some companies have historically included relocation assistance as part of job offers to candidates who will need to move for a new position, typically with the caveat that the employee must remain with the company for a certain period of time. In this article, we explore whether relocation assistance is still something today’s job candidates should expect.
When it comes to scrutinizing costs, most insurance companies can say “Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt.” Managers are familiar with the refrain from above to trim here and cut there. The typical result is flirtation with the latest management trends like lean, outsourcing and offshoring, and others. However, the results tend to be the same. Budgets reflect last year’s spend plus or minus a couple of percent in the same places.
If you’re looking to streamline sales cycles, increase deal sizes, eliminate risk from your
financial agreements, and improve collaboration between Sales, Finance, Legal, and
Operations, you’ve come to the right place...! Experience the next-generation of Solution platform value vs just looking at CPQ or CLM. In this guide, you will find a step-by-step overview of the Quote-to-Cash process, and the
challenges—and opportunities—of each stage, so you can manage the Quote-to-Cash
process more proactively, and take the steps needed to drive better business results.
C13 - What motivate managers andor managerial accountants of glob.docxdewhirstichabod
C13 -
What motivate managers and/or managerial accountants of global corporations to set transfer-pricing policies? What are the ethical implications do you see in applying transfer-pricing policies? Explain your answer and provide some examples.
(300 words)
.
C14 -
Why do some managers tend to
(a) inappropriately ignore opportunity cost. Explain your answer and provide some examples; AND
(b) inappropriately consider sunk cost in the decision-making process. Explain your answer and provide some examples
(300 words
)
Also, need two replies 200 words each for each Disc ussion........
Reply 1,2:
1:
It is only recently that transfer pricing has been able to gain such popularity among marketers. It has been seen that Tax policy and administration concerning international transactions, aggressive tax planning, and tax avoidance, have become a rising issue (Cooper et al., 2017). Transfer pricing is the value of goods and services at which these goods and services are transferred from one unit to another unit of a company. Transfer pricing is set for intermediate products that are supplied by the selling division to buying division. For example, when a subsidiary company sells goods or services to its sister company the price that is charged is known as transfer pricing. The main thing that motivates the top management to conduct transfer pricing is to avoid tax payments and increase the profit of the organization.
2:
It is to be remembered that an organization is functioning so that it is able to make some profits and this can be made possible with the help of transfer pricing. However, it is also to be noted that transfer pricing is an unethical practice. It is known to be an ethical practice because it is used for evading taxations and for the misrepresentation of the financial stability of an organization. It is to be remembered that transfer pricing might have a negative impact on the investments that are made by multinational corporations (De Mooij, & Liu,2020). Although transfer pricing is able to create pause react it is not able to add any value. It is very important for organizations to ensure that they are functioning in the most ethical way so that they can ensure their stability and sustainability in the market. The methods that are used for transfer policy are- Comparable Uncontrolled Price Method, The Resale Price Method, The Cost Plus Method,
Transactional Profit Methods,
The Profit Split Method, and The Comparable Profits Method (Gjorgieva-Trajkovska et al., 2019).
Reference
Cooper, J., Fox, R., Loeprick, J., & Mohindra, K. (2017). Transfer pricing and developing economies: A Handbook for policy makers and practitioners. The World Bank.
De Mooij, R., & Liu, L. (2020). At a cost: The real effects of transfer pricing regulations. IMF Economic Review, 68(1), 268-306.
Gjorgieva-Trajkovska, O., Svrtinov, V. G., Dimitrova, J., & Koleva, B. (2019). Transfer pricing–definition and methods. Knowledge International Journa.
The primary motivations for outsourcing are not surprising: 87 percent seek to reduce operating costs, 81 percent seek greater flexibility and scale, and 74 percent seek to standardize processes. Though outsourcing is the most favored strategies globally we still get to hear “outsourcing horror stories”. For both the parties to work harmoniously let’s look at some approaches towards outsourcing best practice.
Most sourcing organizations focus on direct procurement, potentially overlooking indirect procurement and missing key opportunities to reduce spend. As indirect purchases increasingly become a larger percentage of overall spend, for many organizations, indirect procurement can be a diamond in the rough. This article makes the arguement that the value of indirect procurement should not be overlooked.
This is my first professional writing and my first published writing as well, appeared in The Bangladesh Accountant (ICAB) January - March,2015. Here I reproduce the same for your valuable evaluation. It was on Financial Accounting.
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