Sentences with phrase «business structures increase»

We've also heard the arguments that there is no evidence that alternative business structures increase access to justice.

Not exact matches

While there were some winners in the report that could be helping some of the business owners who reported that they are optimistic (non-trade business increased and equipment, software, structures and new construction spending rose), the media has concluded what business owners have — without more jobs, we won't see increased spending.

While my business coaching company, Maui Mastermind, primarily focuses on helping existing businesses in the $ 1 - 25 million sales per year range successfully and increase owner independence, I do get asked about the best way to structure a startup's business plan.

Unlike IRAs and 401 (k) s, which allow business owners to invest up to $ 24,000 annually, specialized defined benefit plans, properly structured, can significantly increase contributions and reduce taxes by 50 percent — in some cases, a double benefit.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

«Utilities have altered their rate structures such that demand charges are rising faster than overall energy rates, and businesses are bearing the bulk of those increases,» said Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer and chief operations officer.

«Working with a leading consulting firm, incorporating industry best practices and involving the local business community, Randy structured the new concessions programs to provide customers with increased concept variety and quality.»

The tiered investment structure offers several packages that focus on marketing services for your business, increased interactions with consumers through community events, contributions to beautification projects along the local business corridors, and a direct connection to city departments that work with small businesses.

Romney campaigned on revising the state's tax structure, increasing its appeal to businesses and the general public, and getting it «rolling again».

The proposal expands the eligibility of a small business to include any business that files under PIT regardless of how the business is structured; raises the income eligibility threshold from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 when the business entity income is less than $ 1.5 million; eliminates the employee requirement; increases the exemption from 5 percent to 15 percent for small business income and from 5 percent to 20 percent for farm income; increases the corporate tax threshold from $ 390,000 to $ 500,000; and reduces the corporate business income rate for small businesses from 6.5 percent to 2.5 percent over two years.

One review of the literature found that only about one - fourth of businesses that undertook turnaround initiatives were able to institute major changes in their structure and management, and even those businesses did not show increased economic performance (Hess & Gift, 2008).

The aerospace engineering science discipline involves: increasing the knowledge and understanding of the aeronautical and astronautical sciences and their applications in aviation and space exploration; improving manned and unmanned commercial, defense, and business aviation technology; and creating, developing, testing, launching, operating, maintaining, remodeling, and decommissioning aeronautical vehicles and structures.

In that sense all analysis of stock market based on historical metrics do nt make much sense since composition of stocks is entirely different in different era and as more capital efficient business model evolve and their time to market cycle shrinks stocks likely to command higher valuations and suddenly lower valuations during short period of time like already happening for many technology companies and as influence of technology on overall cost structure of companies increases (for example: robotics replace many of employees cost etc) valuation matrix of most companies likely to get affected dynamically in short duration of time than in the past.

Ramius also expressed its concern that the Issuer has taken little action, to date, to adjust the cost structure in - line with current business prospects, specifically noting that, while revenues have declined since fiscal year 2008, operating expenses have actually increased over the same period.

An LLC can grow its business with business loans if it is properly structured so as to increase chances for approval.

In Argo's case, I address the slippage in AUM in the past couple of years by: i) haircutting my valuation of the asset management business to 3.75 % of AUM (if AUM were increasing steadily & incentive fees being earned, a valuation of 7.5 % or even 10 % of AUM wdn't be unreasonable, considering Argo's fee structure, and ii) calling for more resources to be devoted to fund - raising, and other alternative revenue / fee sources (for example, like white - label & sub-advisory contracts) to be explored — see here: https://wexboy.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/argo-escape-from-an-evil-state/

In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.

As strategic business partners to our clients, we apply our deep experience, strong technical skills and an efficient team approach to enable them to achieve the financing and capital structure needed to increase the value of their business.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

Within the Washington State Bar Association, some have argued that ABSs (alternative business structures) will decrease the cost of legal services and thereby increase access to justice.

It was interesting to read in the legal press that the outsourcing giant Carillion «could become an alternative business structure» as part of plans to increase its legal services profile.

However, Susan Brown, director at law firm Prolegal, said: «Introducing a system which has no certainty of reducing costs and could equally well increase them, will undoubtedly lead to satellite litigation, will make it more difficult for claimants to find an experienced personal lawyer to represent them, and is extremely dangerous at a time when the legal services industry is on the brink of the major upheaval that will result from the introduction of alternative business structures.»

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Increasing complexity in business structures, the speed at which transactions are conceived and closed, and rapidly changing tax laws, particularly surrounding base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) can result in unintended material tax consequences.

As firms continue to build experience and structure their business and engagement with clients, the uptake is going to increase.

There is also no evidence that alternative business structures won't increase access to justice.

According to legal experts quoted in the article, new business models will probably include new compensation structures, increased specialization, and smaller partnership classes.

In the face of increasing pressure from regulators and greater exposure to litigation and international arbitration, combined with the prevailing economic climate, businesses are looking for increasingly flexible fee structures from their legal advisers.

Today, wealth is increasing both in families and family business structures.

On the one hand, sustaining innovation, a description of increased efficiency for current deliverables, breaks down under the regulatory and business structures that have evolved around such firms.

Alternative business structures already adopted overseas, including non-lawyer ownership, could migrate to Canada as markets grow closer together and competition increases, the publication states.

Do alternative business structures actually increase access to justice when it comes to personal injury?

At some stage in most companies» lives they will experience challenges to business stability or success, be it from emerging competition, increased overheads, pensions issues, debts, direct creditors or the pressures of a group structure.

It would increase coverage limits from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 for residential structures and $ 500,000 to $ 1,000,000 for multifamily and businesses structures to mitigate financial loss and enhance coverage for the replacement value of structures in competitive property markets.

Assisted in evaluating each business process and then recommending changes to its structure to help increase efficiency and sustainability.

These professionals plan and recommend ways so that the objectives of the company can be achieved and also they have to change the structure of the company for increasing its business efficiency.

Significantly contributed to increased business profitability through implementation of new pricing and service structure

The mission of BNI is to help members increase their business through a structured, positive and professional referral marketing program that enables them to develop long - term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals.

Administrative Technician III for Texas Department of Transportation: - Implement improved and time saving procedures; consistently reduce overhead costs, improve workflow and increase office efficiency - Create and maintain a database of public assistance complaints; assign an internal investigator to each case and follow - up once closed - Developed and monitor a calendar system using PowerPoint where accurate records of vacation / sick leave / comp time used and accrued are tracked month - to - month for comparison with monthly time sheets - Answer inquiries from the general public, vehicle storage facility operators, motor carriers, the trucking industry and other state / federal agencies regarding rules, laws and regulations governing the issuance of motor carrier credentials - Prepare correspondence (email and written) and review for completeness and correctness - Field calls and manage administration, resolve a wide - range of staff dilemmas and challenging situations on a daily basisPrincipal Administrative Assistant for Solar Turbines, Inc.: - Provided support to Directors, Department Managers, Project Managers and Project Engineers as well as international personnel - Maintained detailed calendars of appointment schedules for business meetings, conferences, domestic / international travel arrangements and special events - Expertly ran this fast - paced, large office encompassing office and structure maintenance, scheduling of machine / equipment service and repairs, and ordering and stocking office supplies; updated and maintained department web pages - Compiled, created and distributed financial reports and PowerPoint presentations - Edited and formatted technical documentation and maintained filing systems - Coordinated extensive domestic and international travel arrangements, including air, hotel, car and meeting locations - Planned departmental meetings, special events and office movesSenior Administrative Assistant for Solar Turbines, Inc.: - Supported Department Manager and Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineers and shop personnel - Tracked and monitored pending and confidential correspondence and financial information - Prepared apprenticeship packets for distribution; received applications, recorded data, and set - up and coordinated Differential Aptitude Tests; notified applicants of test results and set - up initial interviews - Coordinated special events; managed information systems and maintained web pages; oversee special projects - Resolved office obstacles, communication barriers and complicationsSenior Program Assistant for Solar Turbines, Inc.: - Photographed, downloaded and printed digital pictures of parts, processes and people involved in Rotor CAM area - Created and produced departmental newsletter; initiated Receiving Inspection Records Retention process (scanned records onto CD for easy and accessible retrieval and storage)- Set - up and coordinated meetings and special events; created slide show presentations and maintained web pagesPage 2

Creation, development and implementation of business process programs that increase business efficiencies, profit and improve employee and customer satisfaction while maintaining the legal structure of the business environment.

This Includes: * Basic of # 24,000 (raising over year one) with a genuine OTE of between # 40,000 to # 60,000 for successful first year consultants with this increasing significantly in year two * An industry leading, uncapped commission structure allowing take home of up to 30 % of all billings * Bespoke suits purchased for Junior Consultants once they bill over # 22,000 in 3 months - which to date, all consultants in the business have achieved * Quarterly Directors Lunch Club for top performing consultants across all levels of the business * Incentives like the Top Biller of the Quarter being awarded a fully paid dinner for two in a restaurant of their choice * Top Biller across the entire year gaining an All - inclusive Holiday of the consultants choosing * Quarterly Company Holiday Targets including skiing in the winter and Monaco / Vegas etc. in the summer Due to the calibre of consultants they currently have in the business, they are only looking for the most impressive candidates to help their growth push.

People Places Plants Magazine Inc. (North Yarmouth, ME) 12/2002 — 03/2006 Director of Sales & New Business Development • Founded Mid Atlantic Horticulture magazine and built advertising revenue to 1 million annually • Increased distribution from zero to 100,000 - plus subscribers through effective sales, marketing, and customer service • Designed and implemented new sales tools including company media kit, company presentation, and rate structure • Negotiated all national sales contracts for multiple insertion orders • Coordinated sales and promotion efforts consisting of mass mailings, television promotions, trade shows, and focus groups • Created diverse strategies to increase advertising revenue flow into new markets and enhance brand awareness • Managed all new national accounts and renewals at a 95 % annual percentage rate

Once you have mastered the candidate focussed side of this role your responsibilities will increase to include account management and business development and you will move up to the recruitment consultant commission structure.

We said we needed to have a sustainable capital structure that translated into reducing our leverage and increasing the cash flow from the business.

The business problems that arise from this structure are not new, but new trends — increased consumer awareness and expectations, the rise of information technology and the rapid diversification and maturation of Canada's real estate market among them — increasingly challenge the DIY agent who hopes to be successful.

We have changed the business model to allow a far more co-operative team structure that vastly increases our efficiency.

Adams suggests that another option could be to place the property in a limited liability business structure to increase your personal protection.