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Copyright Issues in Digital Media
This paper reviews current copyright law in the United States and considers the unique aspects of digital technology's challenge to that law. It also examines the prospects for a market-based resolution to copyright disputes over digital content and explores the effect of potential revisions to copyright law on economic efficiency...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, copyright law, digital content, digital media, equity
White papers 2004-08-01
Federal Reinsurance for Terrorism Risks
For insurance to be readily available, losses must be predictable. But predictability is required only in the aggregate. It is sufficient to know that x houses will be destroyed by fire or that y vehicles will be damaged in accidents or that z earthquakes or hurricanes will occur in a...
Tags: Homeland security, Congressional Budget Office, terrorism, reinsurance, accident, insurance
White papers 2001-10-01

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Performance Budgeting - Efforts to Restructure Budgets to Better Align Resources With Performance
To provide an overview of the various budget restructuring efforts underway in the federal government, this paper summarizes steps taken by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and nine selected agencies to better align their budgets with performance and to better capture the cost of performance in the budget;...
Tags: Performance management, Government Accountability Office, performance budgeting, performance, accountability, agency
White papers 2005-02-01
Six Steps to Improving Your Planning and Budgeting System
For many organisations, planning and budgeting is an annual ritual. Once a year a letter goes out from head office describing the company's expectations, shortly followed by a budget pack to be completed by a predefined date. Once a year these packs are completed and returned, and then the annual...
Tags: Budgeting, Negotiation, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance
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The Rise of Income Inequality in the United States, 1979-2001
Income inequality is one of the most analytically complex, value-laden, contentious subjects of economic policy. How should income be measured? How should inequality be measured? How much has inequality changed in recent decades, and what explains the changes? What effect did changes in tax policy have on after-tax inequality? This...
Tags: Operational accounting, Stanford University, inequality, income, tax
White papers 2006-02-01
Biggest Budget Busters
Many people make an honest attempt to budget but become discouraged and give up before they're able to accomplish any significant financial gain. The top three causes of budget failure come into play before a person even begins to set up his or her budget. Awareness of these budget busters...
Tags: financial
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Office Discipline: Why You Need A Project Management Office
From the executive summary: ‘For Years, IT departments have struggled to deliver projects on time and within budget. However, with modern-day emphasis being on getting more bangs for the buck, IT has to rein in projects more closely than ever. The challenge has led many companies to turn to Project...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, International Data Group, project management, information technology
White papers 2003-07-01
Developing a Budget?: Watch Out for Those Budget-Bursting Gremlins
Creating and sticking to a budget isn't easy by all means. But it represents the best way by far to manage a person's finances so he or she can relax and worry about other things. A budget can also be a very useful tool for ending financial arguments - assuming...
Tags: Financial accounting, finance, financial, tool
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The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Potential Impact on Beneficiaries
This paper was commissioned for the purpose of providing objective and relatively comprehensive information about the potential impact of the Medicare prescription drug benefit on beneficiaries. The paper aims to accomplish this by describing the key provisions of the legislation, presenting up-to-date information about characteristics of the Medicare population, analyzing...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, beneficiary, Medicare, benefit
White papers 2004-11-01
This Is the Season for Social Security Reform
CPAs have a responsibility to speak out about FICA taxes. Social Security payroll taxes are collected under authority of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The payroll taxes are sometimes even called "FICA taxes" or "Social Security taxes." According to the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security payments make up about...
Tags: Operational accounting, Gale Group, Social Security, income, payroll
White papers 2005-04-01
Winning The Battle Of The Budget
World-class companies are adding significant value to the budget process through linkage with their long-range strategic plan and by focusing on bottom-line performance. A key to success is obtaining management's buy-in. The budget process is a lot like the federal government nobody really owns all of it. At most companies,...
Tags: Penton Media Inc., performance
White papers 2003-01-01
Assistant Vice President For Planning & Budget (University)
The Assistant Vice President for Planning & Budget (University) manager job description template includes the following job summary: The Assistant Vice President for Planning and Budget (local position title) assists in coordinating all business and financial concerns for the University. The Business and Finance Division includes the Budget, Business Services,...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, vice president, job, financial
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
What Makes a Good Budget?
What makes a good budget? In all the budget bloopers and blunders the author has seen, the same few problems keep rearing their ugly heads. To avoid them, this paper presents the top ten most important features of a successful budget. The first feature to consider is categories that fit...
Tags: Budget, New York Times Co.
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Financial Impact of Recently Enacted Health Insurance Mandates: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Mercer is the world's leading employee benefits, compensation, and human resources consulting firm, offering the most comprehensive human resources consulting services in the industry. Mercer's Health Care and Group Benefits consultants are experts in employee benefits programs and primarily provide consulting services to employer and government purchasers of health care...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Mercer, employee benefit, health care, Human Resources, consulting service, health insurance, compensation, consulting, financial, benefit, industry
White papers 2001-10-01
Marketing Budget Plan
This template helps you to plan your marketing budget. By filling in the planned amounts in each of the template cells, you can easily forecast what type of budget you need for marketing. The formulas also automatically update the totals for each section, as well as maintain a running total...
Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., marketing
Tools & templates 2004-04-02
Your Secret Weapon... a Budget
Simply put, a budget helps a person to track his or her income and keep his or her spending habits in check over a certain period of time, allowing the person to reach specific goals. There are many reasons why a family may want to implement a budget. These "Reasons"...
Tags: budgeting, income
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Budgeting - The Critical Flaw That Causes Most Budgets to Fail
Budgeting. It's a word everyone is amiliar with. Everyone knows what a budget is, right? Yet how many actually make and stick to a solid monthly budget? The truth is that most people start out with the best of intentions, but an unexpected expense comes up and busts their budget....
Tags: Financial services, budgeting, finance
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Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control
Governments around the world have struggled to find the right method of controlling public spending and budget deficits. In recent years, the United States has evaluated policy changes using a ten-year budget window. The use of a multi-year window is intended to capture the future effects of policies, the notion...
Tags: Construction, National Bureau of Economic Research, window
White papers 2004-08-01
Budgeting: General Information
A budget is a quantitative plan detailing out the methodology to be followed in resource acquisition, allocation, and utilization over a specified period of time. Budget helps in defining specific goals and objectives for the organization. To this effect, it lays out the strategy roadmap for the organization. The budget...
Tags: Performance management, McGraw-Hill Companies, performance evaluation, budgeting, allocation, strategy, workplace, motivation, performance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Resource Allocation When Projects Have Ranges Of Increasing Returns
We examine the problem of optimally allocating a fixed budget to a finite number of different investment projects. The marginal productivity of capital in a project is first increasing then decreasing with the amount of capital invested in it. When the total budget is below some lower cutoff value, the...
Tags: cutoff, allocation
White papers 2007-01-24
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