Healthcare Insurance Costs? Maybe You Don’t Care

by | August 25, 2004 | Articles, Finance

Sexy it’s not, unless where the $$ is bleeding off without much chance of controlling it gets your attention, but this McKinsey piece addresses controlling health-care benefit costs (albeit in the context of F500 companies).  When I was a junior in college...

Location, Location, Location

by | August 14, 2004 | Articles, Finance

Is geography destiny?  It is if you believe that Philadelphia is "the worst legal market" in the country.  Sandwiched between New York and Washington, DC, without indigenous investment or commercial banks of any size, and with a high-taxation,...

Your Sexy Tax Department

by | August 11, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Marketing, Strategy

Tax advice as a secret weapon in beauty contests is a neglected strategy, according to this UK tax solicitor.  Of interest is her take that your tax department should be more than a transaction support function—an unexciting backwater full of competent...

SOX Section 404 & “Utterly Futile Box Ticking”

by | August 10, 2004 | Articles, Finance

Sarbanes-Oxley §404 continues to sow a wide swath of worry and denunciation virtually world-wide.  From a UK perspective, the requirements are seen as American "imperialism" and the value of a US-exchange listing is increasingly being called into...
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