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Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
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First it was Sarbanes-Oxley. Now it looks like accountants will find that carbon trading a license to print money. Earlier this week, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefin...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
... saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices m...
The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors
in carzz.org, on June 10, 2009
...o survive, Bob Lutz returned to his roots. GM product planning had, until then, been dominated by accountants and lawyers who understood little of the emotions behind automobile ownership. Lutz'...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...rnet has taken over the routine tasks of travel agents, real estate brokers, stock brokers and even accountants. With digitization and high-speed data networks a lot of back office work can now be don...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...ishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featured panelist at Microsoft's CEO summit this week and...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...actly you still need that plump budget, anyway.
To be fair, Hackett discusses both outsourcing and offshoring in their cost control strategy, and both are among the techniques that I would recommend ...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...that is near and dear to protectionist hearts after the H1B program, it is the growing trend toward offshoring. Many of the firms serving that trend are well-staffed with American-educated students.
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An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
...s proposal. My personal take is that tax havens often give the companies with the best lawyers and accountants an unfair advantage of companies with the best products. Closing the loopholes brings us ...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...untant at Securities and Exchange Commission says it will eclipse fair value as a painful issue for accountants. This is not before time and probably comes too late. Off balance sheet vehicles were o...
Lawyers cash in on Chrysler bankruptcy
in Sox First, on May 2, 2009
...very plan. And who will be the winners out of this? As always, it will be the lawyers, bankers and accountants with Bloomberg reporting they are likely to make at least $200 million by the time the...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
... difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relationships have clearly migrated from "non-core" business fun...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 25, 2009
...has slammed into reverse with CFO.com reporting that the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants has sent a letter to the SEC slamming the road map put up by the previous SEC chairman C...
Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
... funds its own social safety net, and how that funding creates additional pressure for outsourcing/offshoring.
Unlike most of the industrialized world, the U.S. does not fund the bulk of health care ...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...ance rather than relegate it.
Meanwhile, there is strong political sentiment in the US to reign in offshoring in general, with the somewhat mis-conceived notion that all these overseas shenanigans in...
Obama's Tax Breaks and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 3, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 204085
In a recent article published by the Gerson Lehrman Group, Obama's elimination of tax breaks for outsourcing was analyzed. The article states (and I agree) that there is a large difference between the elimination of tax benefits for a business...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
... business logic to become embedded in unwieldy, undocumented Excel spreadsheets carefully horded by accountants away from the eyes of the IT department. No CIO or IT manager from the post-Visicalc era...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...del Compliance Group LLC describes compliance issues and concerns that arise during outsourcing and offshoring transactions. The article, intended for both outsourcing and compliance managers, highlig...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley mean audit offshoring?
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
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Offshoring has become more prevalent in recent years. Most firms send part of their operations to cheaper places overseas. But offshoring of audit functions is becoming more popular and, accordin...
FAS 157: Is it Killing Investment?
in Bizinformer, on January 19, 2009
... value of investments they had to write off.
One consistent theme seems to be that no one (except accountants) are happy about FAS 157. Here's a few pieces, some new and some old, on the new rul...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 13, 2009
...ing so-called "aiding and abetting liability," which would make it easier to sue lawyers, accountants and bankers working on behalf of a fund accused of illegal activity. But, Freed says, i...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Taking advantage of recessionary pressures to restructure IT
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
...ific ideas on procurement and support, lightweight, flexible operations models, and outsourcing and offshoring options.
It's always interesting to me how businesses can suddenly find so much to c...
Fair value blow for banks
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
...nother set of rules for another sector. And the bottom line is that the meltdown was not caused by accountants....
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
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Yesterday, I did a blog entry on how the Madoff scandal had out accountants in the gun. The view now is that no-one could have pulled off a scam as big as this, and kept it going for so long, wi...
Insurance brokers warn
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
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Already the signs aren't looking good, and accountants should start to worry. With the credit crisis, the number of securities class actions has nearly doubled this year, according to NERA E...
Accounting growth soars, despite recession
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
... I always talk about how accountants are recession-proof. The last blog entry I did on it looked at how they are enjoying above-average salary increases, despite the downturn. Now a new survey, r...
Is the Downturn Affecting Offshore Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 20, 2008
...n those savings have proved elusive). As such, I think it could be a very, very long time before we offshoring rebounds....
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...system demonstrates that major principles of accounting are much too important to be left solely to accountants." Of course, there was none of this talk when markets were booming. The world'...
The Slowdown's Effect on Indian Hiring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 28, 2008
...ult economic market - particularly if the political costs offset the perceived economic benefits of offshoring.
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Is reverse offshoring a trend?
in Supplychainer, on October 24, 2008
...e; but a recent survey done by Duke University shows that still most of the companies prefer to use offshoring or producing outside U.S..
In fact, instead of back-shoring, the trend which is shaping...
Europe Feels the Crisis
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...proach.
With such an approach, job creation and stability may become a priority - and opponents of offshoring may find new allies in the corporate boardroom.
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High End Jobs Going to India
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...tesy of iStockphoto , Marcus Clackson
Today's San Jose Mercury News reported on the trend of offshoring higher-end tasks, like graphic design, legal work and other "thought process" t...
Citi, Lehman sell India Units
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 9, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Andrew Johnson
Citi has sold its Indian captive to Tata and Lehman has sold its Indian captive to Nomura in two of the largest (and what may be two of the only major) sales of US-owned captives. See this article in InformationWeek.
In the Citi deal, the center...
Value Will Be King
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...st. What is the fertilizer for such new growth? In a word, value.
In recent years, outsourcing and offshoring was all about labor arbitrage - reducing high-cost headcount with offshore headcount at s...
The Lehman legacy
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
...to New York just ahead of its bankruptcy filing, a move that has drawn criticism from creditors and accountants, according to two people familiar with the matter. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney&#...
What recession? - accountants
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...t how the Big Four are planning to axe staff. Times are tough. Well, maybe not that tough. Not for accountants anyway with the latest CCH Public Accounting Report with the big firms still expecting...
Outsourcing to the Phillipines
in The CIO Weblog, on September 27, 2008
I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place behind India in outsourcing revenues.
This makes perfect sense from a call-center outsourcing per...
Will the Instability in Pakistan Affect the Offshoring Market
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 19, 2008
...ing off of the front pages of the U.S. media, one of the things that worries me most with regard to offshoring is the recent instability of Pakistan and the threat that it poses to offshoring in Ind...
Lehman, Merrill and Offshoring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 15, 2008
...man Brothers and the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America will present huge challenges to offshoring in the near- to mid-term. Aside from the clear consolidation in the markets that this wil...
What Kind of Jobs Cannot be Outsourced?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 8, 2008
...hareholders and offshorers for two reasons: (a) it doesn't create a disincentive to today's offshoring, and (b) it seeks to create new areas of high-wage, high-skill jobs - the jobs that our g...
The Outsourcing Boomerang
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 5, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Niels Quist Petersen In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology article , findings of the Black Book of Outsourcing were discussed. In this year's survey, the Black Book discovered a trend of moving work back to on-shore and near-shore servic...
Duelling analysts
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...and Company and The Hackett Group. McKinsey released a report today entitled "Time to rethink offshoring?" while Hackett put out an e-mail alert this morning with the subject "Back-Of...
Accountants rake it in
in Sox First, on September 3, 2008
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I keep raising the question whether accountants are recession-proof . Now we have further evidence of that with the latest Hewitt study showing that the bean counters are going to get the bigg...
Offshoring decisions as a function of supply chain fuel cost
in Supplychainer, on August 30, 2008
... brought another relevant graph based on his research (taken from SC Digest ) which formulates the offshoring decisions as function of the cost to move the warehousing and logistics infrastructure an...
Mongering... Fear and Otherwise
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 29, 2008
...t ever the spin and whatever your perspective, the position offered by Mr. Obama will not eliminate offshoring, but instead may alter the equation a bit. I seriously doubt that it will reach the tippi...
Lawyers take to boardrooms
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
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We have talked many times about how Sarbanes-Oxley has turned into a goldmine for accountants. The other lot that's made big gains are the lawyers. Sarbanes-Oxley means we're now seeing m...
Closing the GAAP
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
... that strikes me is whether there are enough skills for the take-up, although six years should give accountants like enough to get their heads around IFRS. A fuller discussion of those issues here . ...
Do Outsourcing Awards Mean Anything?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 22, 2008
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Any news search that looks at offshoring or outsourcing is bound to come up with a number of items saying that "so-and-so" vendor finish...
Legal Process Outsourcing - Who Benefits
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...e Clifford Chance model will be sustainable in a marketplace where the justification for permitting offshoring is cost-driven, not quality-driven.
See the linked article for more information.
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Mrs Fields goes bust - another sign of recession
in Sox First, on August 18, 2008
Last Friday's announcement that the Mrs Fields Famous Brands chain of cookie shops has gone broke is another sign of the deep problems now confronting the US economy. It has has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after blaming "aggressive competition" in its franchising b...
Headcount at Outsourcing Vendors
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...ient, particularly in the first few years. It may also be that near-shoring is more productive than offshoring for certain tasks.
This productivity gap may not be too big an issue - as long as wage d...
Recession-proof accountants
in Sox First, on August 6, 2008
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Earlier this year, I asked the question: are accountants recession-proof? As I pointed out at the time, accounting firms tend to run very lean and the fees just keep coming and heading north. N...
Practice Ranges: A Right Way and A Wrong Way
in Eagle Par Birdie, on August 5, 2008
...t a raspberry to the dopes who are too lazy to make their ranges better.
May they have good accountants to help them file for bankruptcy.
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Steps in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 4, 2008
...her Information Systems detailed the steps that they went through in helping a client enter into an offshoring relationship. The articles provide an interesting high-level overview of the process and ...
A Dead Deal
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 1, 2008
...en dealing with a European provider. What that tells me is that either (a) there was no significant offshoring aspect to this deal, or (b) that the deal was not properly priced by HP. In any case, it ...
India instability may drive offshoring to China
in The CIO Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...Chinese IT industry already poised to encroach on India's undisputed position atop the global offshoring dogpile , the latest developments in Bangalore are sure to be unwelcome news to I...
Supply chain video: What is the right paradigm in next generation outsourcing?
in Supplychainer, on July 27, 2008
...Now that many global companies have already used offshoring to India and China to reduce the cost of their operation, the question which remains on the table is: What is the next step? What should be ...
New PRTM research highlights supply chain trends till 2010
in Supplychainer, on July 24, 2008
...continue to emerge as major targets for globalization, while Eastern Europe is catching up as a top offshoring destination. Investments in North America and Western Europe also remain strong as compan...
Confusing Numbers
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 23, 2008
... 2008, considering it's an election year in the US." he went on to say that "[a]s any offshoring contracts or significant layoffs become very visible in an election year, customers are g...
Financial professionals continue to rake it in
in Sox First, on July 22, 2008
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Funny thing about this recession. It seems to be affecting everyone except for accountants. In the past I have done entries, such as this one , looking at the phenomenon. No surprises then that ...
Offshore outsourcing in trouble?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...domestic costs, rising. But Larry Dignan puts together some signs that all may not be well on the offshoring front.
Dignan puts together cautious statements from the Big Three Indian off-shoring fi...
China-based supply chain becoming a threat?
in Supplychainer, on July 10, 2008
... For a global company nowadays, using China as one of the base countries for sourcing and offshoring is a must and we see these across many sectors such as electronic consumer goods, medical de...
Sarbanes-Oxley boosts shredding business
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
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Plenty has been written about Sarbanes-Oxley being a licence to print money for accountants. But it's also done wonderful things for the shredding business, according to this news repo...
Clueless about XBRL
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
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Last month, I did a blog entry looking at how accountants were not ready for Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) which is supposed to make it easier for investors to analyze financial ...
The future of eXpresso
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...;s a significant insight of Langan's that most business gets done in Excel; I myself have known accountants so enamored of the program that they type their memos up in it, spurning Word. So althou...
CFOs' road to the top
in Sox First, on June 2, 2008
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Everyone knows that Sarbanes-Oxley has been a gold-mine for accountants. Now we have new evidence that it's also done a lot of good for chief financial officers. According to a study, finance...
Does Legal Process Outsourcing Waive a Client's Fourth Amendment Rights?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 1, 2008
...h Hennessey sought clarification from the DC and Maryland Bar Associations regarding whether or not offshoring legal services compromises a client's fourth amendment rights. The suit is based on t...
Going for green with accounting
in Sox First, on May 27, 2008
With more pressure on companies to show their green credentials, environmental accounting might well become one of the hot jobs of the future. Here is a good summary of what it entails. Essentially, it's about risk management, collecting and analyzing information on materials flows and po...
China to encroach on India's offshoring turf?
in The CIO Weblog, on May 22, 2008
Why not? It sounds like the new frontier, reading this ComputerWorld article on opportunities for Mandarin speaking folks with managerial experience in the burgeoning Chinese IT market.
While India has loads of technical talent, as the article points out it isn't difficult to replicate that w...
