Sentences with phrase «firms billed the company»

The firms billed the company a combined $ 19 million from 2002 to 2005, records show.

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Bottom line: Both bills have guardrails to ensure that professional services companies like hedge funds and accounts firms don't abuse the provision.

These companies on average pay bills in Europe that are less than half of those of other firms.

Indeed, companies that use electronic billing software have on average 13.3 % fewer DSO (that's «days sales outstanding,» accountant - speak for a firm's typical collection period), according to an SAP benchmarking survey.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

One of the start - ups to receive a no - action letter was FundersClub, a Y Combinator - incubated company that fashions itself as the world's first online venture capital firm — but doesn't bill itself as a crowdfunding site.

Bill Fiduccia is a founding partner of BizPlanIt, a professional business planning consulting firm that helps early - stage, emerging - growth and established companies prepare clear, concise and compelling business plans that get results.

When Ruth Owades set up her company and her flower - of - the - month club, she hired Nashbar / Associates, a mail - order consulting firm in Youngstown, Ohio, to develop the computer systems that handle Calyx's orders, tracking, and billing.

Co-founder Josh Kushner has said he was inspired to start the firm when he couldn't make sense of a bill from his health insurance company.

The bill would amend Sarbanes - Oxley and prohibit the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board (PCAOB) from requiring public companies to change their audit firm every decade or so.

Just five months later, the company raised another $ 16 million in a Series A funding round, which included Highland Capital Partners, Fontinalis Partners — the VC firm co-founded by Bill Ford — Signal Ventures, EDBI, the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Samsung Ventures.

Lynda Graham Mays, the president of Longwood, Fla., consulting firm Ogilvy Management Services, offers four valuable suggestions for growing companies looking to keep their legal bills under control:

To business owners who recoil at the thought of endless detail cluttering their monthly bills, Mays responds, «Companies that take control of their legal relationship by requiring more of this kind of information force law firms to be more accountable.»

Former Philadelphia real estate broker turned developer David Dinenberg (he worked with David Grasso on the Valley Square center in Bucks) says he has raised $ 2 million, from investors including Lindy Snider, daughter of Comcast Spectacor chairman Ed Snider, for his firm Kind Financial, a Los Angeles company that bills itself «the financial solutions platform provider for the quickly - growing legal cannabis industry.»

Although the main trade association representing firms like these, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), did not endorse the AHCA, the bill did contain some measures that would benefit the companies by repealing certain taxes and allowing insurers to provide less generous (and less costly) benefits to customers.

To negotiate the details on the immigration bill, Mr. Rubio hired Enrique Gonzalez, who took a leave from a law firm that handles H - 1B visa applications for many technology companies.

One of those people calling for Kalanick to go was one of the company's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

Now, the company and other credit reporting firms are in line to get some last - minute benefits in a banking deregulation bill that originally was designed to punish them by adding new consumer rights.

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

The House bill, for instance, exempts income from professional partnerships like law firms from the lower rate, and limits other people who actively work at their pass - through companies to having only 30 percent of their income taxed at the new lower rate.

Investors like Bill Gurley, a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark, have warned of an eventual reckoning, a time when money is not as easy to come by, which will cause some companies to sputter out when their bank accounts empty.

Although Google's parent company bills itself as a diversified firm with about 80,000 employees, almost 90 percent of the company's revenues derive from advertisements, like the ones that show up in search.

The tax bill signed into law by President Donald Trump will benefit some companies more than others, and analysts at Piper Jaffray identified a «sleeper pick» the firm said is flying under the radar: U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) The Analyst Piper Jaffray's Kevin Barker upgraded U.S...

Valsamos» father, President Bill Valsamos, founded the firm nearly 20 years ago, after working for several different companies.

A law firm hired by Hoosick Falls to negotiate with two companies blamed for polluting water supplies billed the village tens of thousands of dollars to provide public relations advice and to serve as the gatekeeper for numerous Freedom of Information Law requests filed by news organizations.

The company Assemblyman Bill Nojay used to be paid for campaign work for Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren's 2013 primary race and a second firm he co-owned that's embroiled in a multimillion - dollar lawsuit, were not listed on his annual financial disclosure forms.

Start - Up NY specifically prohibits retail, law firms, medical billing companies, real estate brokers and management companies, medical and dental practices, restaurants, utilities and power plants from benefiting.

The donation came less than two months after workers at certain busing companies, including one owned by Mr. Lodde's firm, had gotten an unprecedented windfall from New York City government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contracts.

Laura Curran, the Democrat running for Nassau County executive against Republican Jack Martins, has hired the same team behind NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign operation: consulting firm BerlinRosen and ad company AKPD Message + Media.

The move benefitted rival ride - hailing firms like Lyft as well, but Uber has seen its presence expand at the state Capitol in recent years amid disputes with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration as well as controversies surrounding the company.

«The message this bill sends is that workers» lives at larger, more established companies are more valuable than workers» lives at smaller, less established firms,» she said.

«We're using more software algorithms and less steel,» says Bill Gross, CEO of the Google - backed solar company who, at the age of 15 in 1973, started Solar Devices, a firm which sold plans and kits for solar power, before pioneering pay - to - click advertising for search engines in the 1990s.

Jessica Chastain gives a searing performance in John Madden's drama about a lobbyist who leaves her pro-NRA company behind to help another firm push forward a gun control bill.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with gravitytank, a design and innovation firm, and TNS Global, a market research company, to conduct interviews, observations, and surveys with teachers in schools across the U.S..

In a recent research note, Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope suggested Apple's firm grip on the global tablet market may finally loosen unless the Cupertino, California - based company lowers its pricing.

Debt settlement firms work like this: a consumer turns over his or her bills to the debt settlement company.

The Capital One ® Spark ® Cash for Business is a more flexible option, since to realize the maximum benefit from the card doesn't require your firm's staff to travel a lot or the company to have hefty bills for office supplies.

In the case above, it is highly unreasonable (although standard practice) for a brokerage firm to ask $ 450 to run a credit check when most mortgage companies charge less than $ 100 for the same service (some simply bill for the cost of the credit pull $ 12).

When Edward Sullivan founded Aria Systems, a cloud - based subscription billing company, he raised $ 100 million with venture capital firms (VC) during several rounds.

Although a rapidly growing company may have negative operating cash flows as it expands its inventory and pays its increasing bills, the cash flow from operating activities must eventually turn positive for the firm to survive.

The Capital One ® Spark ® Cash for Business is a more flexible option, since to realize the maximum benefit from the card doesn't require your firm's staff to travel a lot or the company to have hefty bills for office supplies.

Piper Jaffray is a publicly traded company that is billed as the leading full - service investment bank and asset management firm serving clients here in the U.S. and abroad.

The lobbyists that attended these meetings include Bill Tyndall of Duke Energy, John Pemberton of Southern Company, Anthony Kavanagh of American Electric Power, and Patrick Quinn, who represents several coal clients through his firm, the Accord Group.

In fact, as part of the Cosmetics, Toiletries and Fragrance Association trade group, the companies opposed a California bill that would require cosmetics firms to disclose their use of chemicals linked to cancer or birth defects.

UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is chairing a summit meeting with the country's smaller energy companies in a bid to reduce the dominance by the «Big Six» energy firms and tackling rising household bills.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

If Post-Series A, your company's legal bills still seem completely unmanageable, that's often a good indication that the law firm you hired is too big for what you're building (non-unicorn-track using a high - infrastructure unicorn law firm); assuming your expectations on what the bill should be simply aren't unhinged.

The LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer service manages the entire invoicing review process through a combination of advanced technology, machine learning and expertise to ensure outside firm compliance with billing guidelines, while offering clients an average cost savings of 6 to 9 percent in legal fees, the company claims.