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Expanding Overseas: The Best Large Markets: The world’s largest foreign markets are all growing — and making it easier for western companies to join their economies. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p {...; Tags: Benefits, Jennifer Alsever, India, biotechnology, tax exemption, health benefit, risk assessment, cell phone, workforce, career, R&D, consumer electronics, tax, electronics, health care, HTML, worker, wireless, photograph, advertisement, cable, PC, software, computer; Articles 2008-04-21
Capital Markets Slowdown Triggers Pharma Micro-Deals in 2002: In 2002, the ability of companies to raise funds on either the public or private markets was greatly restricted, triggering a substantial reduction in the average value of M&A deals in the pharma sector. Globally, there were 374 M&A deals announced in the pharmaceutical sector in 2002, which represented 12%...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, pharmaceutical company, M&A, capital market, analysis; White papers
Rising Healthcare Costs Making Employers and Employees Sick: This article highlights a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey finds co-pays for brands and generics are raising along with employee health insurance deductibles and contributions, making consumer directed healthcare a top plan change for the future. Employees are also feeling the impact of the rising cost of prescription drugs: 87% of executives...; Tags: Branding, HEALTHCARE, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, brand name, insurance, brand, health care, survey; White papers
Change Management Effort Improves Acceptance of Profitability Analysis and Reporting: The client is a large Canadian incumbent local exchange carrier offering voice, data, video and mobile services to both consumer and business markets. The client's objective was to implement a new decision-support and reporting engine that appropriately allocated revenues and costs to the customer level. This included extensive use of...; Tags: Leadership, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, change management, Activity Based Costing, mobile, video; Case studies
Pricewaterhouse Coopers: Pricewaterhousecoopers Occupied 23,500 Square Feet at 7 St. Paul, in Baltimore~s CBD: PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global consulting firm, occupied 23,500 square feet at 7 St. Paul, one of the premier buildings in Baltimore's CBD. The challenge put forth was that the landlord would want other lease considerations to be made in order to reduce their rent. The company offered the solution through a...; Tags: Outsourcing, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, consulting; Case studies

Oracle Case Study: PricewaterhouseCoopers: The fundamental challenges facing PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) included a need to reduce costs through efficient means of delivering global HR services, managing risk associated with today's regulatory environment, and maintaining and protecting the company's brand image and reputation as a cutting-edge eBusiness. Starting from the base of its PeopleSoft 7.5 system,...; Tags: Branding, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, brand image, Oracle Corp., Human Resources, brand, e-business, environment; Case studies
How Identity Management Supports Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: It's almost impossible to rely on a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 or 404 compliance program without a high level of confidence that only authorized users have access to the critical systems that contribute data inputs to material financial statement accounts. This article describes how identity management, which is one component of...; Tags: Financial statements, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Authentication/Encryption, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, financial statement, identity management, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, access contr; White papers
Underwriting, Claims & Reinsurance: For insurers undergoing changes in structure, seeking to improve performance, looking to reduce costs, developing new areas of business, integrating and updating information and data systems or focusing on mitigating risks within the business, this paper provides support in key operational areas - claims management, reinsurance, underwriting, financial reporting and...; Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, reinsurance, financial reporting, risk management, financial, performance; White papers
Automotive CEOs Warn Low Cost Competition Is Key Threat, According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Global CEO Survey: CEOs of automotive companies see low-cost competition as the biggest threat to the future of their sector. The survey reported in this document found 73 percent believe such competition will threaten the revenue growth of their company over the next 12 months. Of all the sectors canvassed in the survey,...; Tags: Marketing research, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, survey, CEO, talent; White papers
Automotive Component Suppliers Must Drive Risk Management Into the Heart of Their Business: Automotive component suppliers must achieve a perfect balance between their business portfolio risk and operating environment risk if they are to have the best chance of successfully tackling the perils of operating in the modern global automotive market. According to this report identifying the range of possible operating environment scenarios...; Tags: Financial Planning, Channel management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, risk management, supplier, environment; White papers
Industry Insight: New Environment: Protecting intellectual property is paramount in the pharmaceutical industry. The new rules require that companies disclose their reasons for doing a deal and paying a premium over book value. Because this is sensitive data in a consolidating industry, companies and their advisers must develop best practices for complying with these...; Tags: Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, pharmaceutical company, industry, advisor, best practice, accounting, environment; White papers
Immigrants to the Rescue?: Is one answer to our economic problems more immigrants? PriceWaterhouseCoopers reveals this week that CEO confidence in the year ahead is down for the first time since 2003. What's stressing out chief executives? Obviously, the economy, but a survey from consulting firm Accenture released this week suggests that C-suite executives...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, jig, Bloomberg L.P., immigrant, worker; Blog posts 2008-01-25
How Quality Assurance Reviews Can Strengthen the Strategic Value of Internal Auditing: In response to an increased focus on effective governance, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) issued two key provisions to revise standards for the practice of internal audit in 2002. Of the two provisions, the external Quality Assurance Review (QAR) is considered to be particularly important, reflecting the enhanced role...; Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, QA, audit, compliance; White papers 2006-06-07
U.S. Multinationals Have Much at Stake in Change Management, Pricewaterhousecoopers Finds: Large U.S. multinationals are heavily involved in a broad array of change management initiatives, most often stemming from growth and the need for cost reduction. The typical company is currently using an average of five change strategies to achieve desired benefits. In this environment, senior executives have learned to navigate...; Tags: Leadership, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, multinational, change management, cost reduction, barrier, U.S., strategy, benefit, environment; White papers 2006-05-22
How Managing Political Risk Improves Global Business Performance: Companies doing business internationally are grappling with political issues that sometimes surprise even the most experienced. A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia Group shows that despite current efforts, a high percentage of multinational companies believe they are not doing all they could to manage political risk effectively. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia...; Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, performance; White papers 2006-05-11
The Emerging Role of Internal Audit in Mitigating Fraud and Reputation Risks: A number of significant legal, regulatory and standards-setting actions are combining to pressure all players in the financial-reporting process - from directors and senior management to internal and independent auditors - to step up their efforts to combat corporate fraud and misconduct. Some of these actions have broadened the definition...; Tags: Litigation, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, fraud, financial; White papers 2006-03-19
PricewaterhouseCoopers' State of the Internal Audit Profession Study: Internal Audit Post Sarbanes-Oxley: The post-Sarbanes-Oxley era is a dynamic world of continual change and evolution. Demands for internal audit services are at an all-time high, spurred by regulatory and legislative reform measures. As a result, today's internal audit group often plays a key role in compliance and risk management, providing significant support to...; Tags: Financial accounting, audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, QA, risk management, auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, survey; White papers 2006-03-01
2006: Current Developments for Audit Committees: Audit committees have had a busy few years, and some still struggle to strike the right balance between monitoring management and providing advice and counsel. This is especially important in light of landmark settlements that obligated directors to pay damages from their own pockets following major corporate failures. Although they...; Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, monitoring, board; White papers 2006-02-16
Cracking The Code Of R&D Productivity: Nowadays there have been noticeable increases in the pressures exerted on the pharmaceutical and biotech industries by political figures, patient lobbyists, regulators and the financial markets. Companies are charged with producing inexpensive novel medicines under increasingly stringent safety and efficacy standards while, at the same time, continuing to provide increased...; Tags: Financial accounting, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, biotechnology, patient, pharmaceutical company, financial market, shareholder, financial, industry; White papers 2005-12-01
U.S. Multinationals Looking Beyond Initial Sarbanes 404 Compliance to Business Improvement: This document talks about a survey of top executives of large, U.S.-based multinational businesses and presents its findings. It depicts that most senior executives take a positive view of their company's initial compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The majority has since moved on to align their quarterly...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Section 404, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, survey; White papers 2005-11-03