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• Consolidation and Growth: Emerging Trends in American ICT Markets

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  Size and innovation matter more than ever in North America's ICT markets. In enterprise software, where the U.S. remains a global leader in innovation, the industry giants are seeking to expand, acquire and secure customer bases as their established revenue models are transformed. While telecoms companies search for scale through...

  Tags: Consolidation, KPMG International, Strategy, Operational Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance

• Shedding New Light on Network Test Call Systems

  BNET - 2004-08-16

  In an environment where a fine line often exists between profitability and loss, telecommunications companies need to make the most of their revenue streams. Revenue assurance is one of the primary benefits of an automated network test call system, which can pinpoint errors and help enable companies to increase revenue...

  Tags: Revenue, Network, KPMG International, Revenue Assurance, Operational Accounting, Finance

• Defining Issues : Changing Landscape For Payments Received From Suppliers

  BNET - 2003-04-01

  A recently completed EITF Consensus will cause wholesalers and retailers to review their accounting for payments they receive from their suppliers and could significantly affect their accounting and business practices. Supplier payments include cash or its equivalent in the form, for example, of a credit that is applied to future...

  Tags: Payment, Supplier, KPMG International, Consensus, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance

• Regaining Investors' Trust: Advocacy Campaign

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  Given the recent upheaval in the capital markets and the resulting loss of investors' confidence, the accounting profession has come under unprecedented scrutiny. To address this challenge, KPMG began their ongoing mission to become the leading "voice" of the accounting industry through its "Regaining Investors' Trust: Advocacy Campaign". In the...

  Tags: Accounting, Capital Market, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Investment, Investor, KPMG International, Operational Accounting

• Margin Enhancement : How Focusing on Revenue and Related Costs Can Help Product

  BNET - 2002-10-10

  Margin enhancement takes a macro-view of todayÆs communications companies, and it is designed to help improve efficiencies and processes broadly throughout an organization. ME help communications companies effectively understand and manage risks associated with the end-to-end revenue process as well as enhance revenues, manage costs, and positively impact profitability. It...

  Tags: Revenue, KPMG International, Communications Company, Margin Enhancement, Operational Accounting, Finance

• Draft EITF Consensus On "Multiple Deliverables" Would Change Revenue Recognition

  BNET - 2002-10-01

  The mission of the Emerging Issues Task Force EITF is to improve financial reporting through the timely identification, discussion, and resolution of financial accounting issues within the framework of existing authoritative literature. The Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB formed the EITF. The EITF has formed a consensus on the methodology...

  Tags: Revenue, KPMG International, Consensus, Emerging Issues Task Force, Revenue Recognition, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• Global Accounting

  BNET - 2000-01-01

  Despite having a great deal of common purpose and common concepts, the accounting principles in the UK and the US and under International Accounting Standards IASs can lead to markedly different financial statements. This is not merely of academic interest. In the global market for capital, the differences need to...

  Tags: Accounting, KPMG International, International Accounting Standard, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• CAMS: The Butterfly Inside Your Cost Accounting Caterpillar

  BNET - 2000-01-01

  Expressed as revenues minus costs, profitability is one of the easiest equations in business. Yet even in this simpliest axiom of commerce, there can exist a very basic problem. Many entrepreneurs can't improve their profitability, because they aren't sure what it really costs to produce their goods or services. Why?...

  Tags: Accounting, KPMG International, Entrepreneurship, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Management, Finance