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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

They don’t know to add a hefty margin to cover things like self-employment tax, business expenses, health insurance, and nonbillable time spent on business administration. Most consultants tend to use an hourly rate anyway, because it’s the easiest to figure out, there’s less risk of undercharging, and it’s what most clients are used to.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Talk with other consultants, do a web search on typical management consulting rates in your city or state, and/or try converting your employee salary to an hourly rate. There are lots of ways to do this.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. Previously, he was part of the Global Wealth & Asset Management Strategy team of a large financial institution and served EY and Novantas in their strategy consulting practice.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Banking salaries average 50-100% higher than consulting salaries , with the difference increasingly significant as your seniority increases. Consulting compensates with perks that banking does not offer – from better travel allowances to more generous health and retirement packages. 2 LIFESTYLE.

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Why Consulting: The 2019 Ultimate Guide

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Why consulting? This guide contains everything you need to know about being a freelance consultant, answer the questions you might have, and tell you what to be aware of. This guide works for everyone who thinks about getting into consulting, but also for current consultants who might have some questions. Why consulting?

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

6 Despite this, insurers and employers are taking advantage of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows employers to offer financial incentives, paid for by the insurance companies, if employees agree to wear a fitness tracker. The idea is to incentivize real time patient monitoring that can produce data for the clinician.

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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

For passive investing, Blackrock and Vanguard are able to get costs very low due to their scale and skill in replicating a benchmark index. However, they also make money via securities lending when other market participants want to borrow their stocks in order to short them. Institutional Asset Management.