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in Sox First, on March 20, 2010
...: "In spite of rulemakers' repeated, and increasingly lengthy, efforts to clarify matters, accountants and company managers know there remain many gray areas. This makes it a middle ground wh...
in Sox First, on March 13, 2010
...al crisis that destroyed jobs, investments and retirement incomes. Now we can blame all that on the accountants. The New York Times reports how Lehman's number crunchers used a particularly agg...
in TJ's Weblog, on March 11, 2010
... promising locales such as New York City, [...] Read More India instability may drive offshoring to China The CIO Weblog With the recent s...
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 5, 2010
... budget is, says Michael Eisenberg , who is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' financial literacy commission. He prefers to use the term "cash flow" bec...
in XboxSpace, on March 4, 2010
... 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 [...] Read More Infosys 2...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 17, 2010
...e pharma value chain, as large global pharma companies continue to increase their sourcing of APIs, offshoring of clinical development and partnering with domestic companies for new product developmen...
in Sox First, on February 14, 2010
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We all know that Sarbanes-Oxley has been a bonanza for accountants and risk managers. Their fees have gone through the roof. The other group is company directors. As BusinessWeek reports, Sar...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on February 12, 2010
...sor to guide you towards the social cause. Normally the role of philanthropy advisor is played by accountants, family offices, law firms and private banks. Due to increasing demand of clients we are...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 24, 2010
...ollaboration As It Should Be The Outsourcing Weblog Offshoring entrepreneurs have a wide range of free collaboration tools to choose from. There are web...
in Small Business Unplugged, on January 16, 2010
...l Business Unplugged Back on December 5th I reported that Canadian Accountants Say Two-Thirds SME Business Owners Retire Next Decade: I Say Buy a Business!. I purchase...
in Sox First, on January 9, 2010
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Much has been written about offshoring. It's a trend that's here to stay as more companies seek to contain costs and stick to their knitting. But what are the ethics of offshoring? What ...
in Classical Drives, on December 28, 2009
...althy bidders who get carried away with desire and later have to explain their folly to wives and accountants.
In my restless imagination I am one of the former group. Money is no object. (Actually...
in Sox First, on December 15, 2009
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Cleaners are more valuable to society than bankers, advertising executives and accountants. The British study from the New Economics Foundation found that for every pound or dollar that they ...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 9, 2009
...tsourcing World reader asks: Do you know which Pharmaceutical Companies are currently involved with offshoring/outsourcing to lower cost countries? Any help would be appreciated. 3 loosely related to...
in Sox First, on December 4, 2009
...t Congress was setting up a board with 'massive unchecked power' to "make decisions that affect all accountants and everybody they work for, which directly or indirectly is every breathing person in t...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 30, 2009
... IT salaries up - inspite of offshoring at The Outsourcing Weblog According to data from the META Group, IT salaries are expected to rise by 10-15% ...
in The CIO Weblog, on October 12, 2009
So says a fresh report from McKinsey highlighting recent survey results suggesting that leading offshore outsourcing providers have not only benefited from the cost-cutting frenzy that has occupied their traditional client based over the past year, but have also taken the opportunity to improve thei...
in White Lace Wedding, on October 9, 2009
... Many economists believe that we have turned the corner on the recession. Whether or not offshoring companies can take advantge of that turnaround quickly may very well depend on whether th...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 27, 2009
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Many economists believe that we have turned the corner on the recession. Whether or not offshoring companies can take advantge of that turnaround quickly may very well depend on whether the...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
...h as technology investment and long term deals.
Ultimately, it will be interesting to see whether offshoring becomes a leading or lagging indicator of labor market growth over the next two or three y...
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-02
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in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
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In the past I have done entries, like this one , on how accountants seem to be recession-proof. Still, it seems like the global financial meltdown is finally catching up with bean counters, alth...
in Sox First, on July 23, 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...
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...
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 pric...
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'...
in Sox First, on June 4, 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...
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...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
in Sox First, on March 26, 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...
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 ...
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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 3, 2009
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
in Sox First, on January 14, 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
in Sox First, on December 20, 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 ...
in Sox First, on November 25, 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...
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....
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 ...
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'...
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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in Supplychainer, on October 25, 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...
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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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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 9, 2008
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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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 7, 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...
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&#...
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...
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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 18, 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...
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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 7, 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...
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 4, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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