More and more companies are outsourcing non-core functions, including finance. But some live to regret it. Before going outside for receivables, payroll or any other finance responsibility, take precautionary steps to ensure that the results will surpass what one can achieve in-house over the long run. Outsourcing finance and accounting...
A campaign finance reform bill (H.R. 3) has passed House committee. Thanks to the lobbying of the NAB, it is the lesser of two evils: an alternative to a far more onerous Senate version already passed and an improvement over an earlier House incarn ...
Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U. S. House of Representatives, May 25, 1994
Phoenix House, a 20-year-old charity providing residential rehabilitation centers for former drug users, offers a useful paradigm for looking at the need for internal audit in charities. One of the authors, Paul Palmer, has served as Finance Director of Phoenix House, and the other, Neil Finlayson, is a senior...
Statement by John P. LaWare, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, November 9, 1993
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission FEC against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection concerning their television advertising campaign that appears to violate federal campaign...
Health care reform legislation has been stalled in the House Ways and Means Committee and in the Senate Finance Committee. Opposition to the health care bills are based on a number of reasons, including the proposed tobacco tax and small business subsidieHealth care reform legislation has been stalled in the...
Broadcasters relieved as bill that could have cost them millions of ad dollars dies in the House, at least for now Broadcasters relieved as bill that could have cost them millions of ad dollars dies in the House, at least for now
Members of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday gave thumbs-up to two tax-reform measures by Rep. Clay Pope, D-Loyal, and Sen. Angela Monson, D-OKC, Senate finance panel chair, which are not in their final form. The two measures will serve as vehicles for any tax- reform recommendations that come out of...
Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing fell 2.7 per cent in September, seasonally adjusted, to 47,435, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.Total housing finance by value fell 1.6 per cent in September, seasonally adjusted, to $17.209 billion.Economists had expected a fall of 2.8 per cent for owner-occupier housing...
Al-Bayan newspaper quoted a notice published in late March 2005 by the Gulf Finance House Bank announcing its signing of an agreement with the Deutsche Bank for backing bank guarantees against dangers in carrying out deals with foreign investors. Acc Al-Bayan newspaper quoted a notice published...
As I write this, U.S. House and Senate conferees have been appointed to create a new six-year highway and transit spending bill, nicknamed TEALU in the House and SAFETEA in the Senate. The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee are about to go into conference on...
Telcomsubcom chairman Fields and others say commission needs restructuring in wake of new law House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Tex) is worried that the FCC may overstep its authority in implementing the 19 Telcomsubcom chairman Fields and others say...
HOUSE DEMOCRATS announced plans to introduce legislation that would require the chemical and petroleum industries to once again pay special taxes to finance the Superfund Trust Fund. The taxes, which the government uses to help clean up abando HOUSE...
Statement by Richard Spillenkothen, Director, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, before the Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, presented in Orlando, Florida, November 15, 1991
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Interfaith Alliance Foundation TIAF today commended Congress for collecting the necessary signatures to discharge the campaign finance bill to the House floor. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Interfaith Alliance Foundation TIAF today commended Congress for collecting the necessary signatures to discharge...
AsiaInfo Services 07-05-1996 Finance Ministry Criticized by National People's Congress CHINA, July 4, AsiaInfo Services, Inc -- Legislators yesterday demanded the Ministry of Finance put its house in order, after State auditors reported irreg AsiaInfo Services ...
Al-Bayan newspaper quoted a notice published in mid-September 2004 by the Gulf Finance House, an Islamic Investment Bank operating in Bahrain, announcing the granting of the financial grade BBB by the Capital Intelligence ... Al-Bayan newspaper quoted a notice published in mid-September 2004 by the...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. David M. McIntosh, R-Ind., a member of the House committee investigating campaign finance, was paid more than $10,000 in 1993 by a tax-exempt organization that has now become a target of the Senate campaign finance probe.
ST. PAUL, MINN. -- A state Senate panel approved a Minnesota-wide smoking ban, introduced following passage of several municipal bans in the Minneapolis metropolitan area. A similar measure failed to get the recommendation of the House Health Policy and Finance Committee but was sent to the House Commerce Committee. Political...
