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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Solopreneurs who come from “name” firms like PwC or McKinsey can charge more than those who come from industry. People who market themselves as independent professionals and operate as small businesses can charge more than those who work as subcontractors. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence.

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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

For multinational corporations operating in multiple jurisdictions and tax regimes, however, transfer pricing offers an opportunity for tax-optimisation. Firms do this mainly by searching for companies with similar profiles, and benchmarking prices against those used in the broader market. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. After all, there is a multibillion-dollar industry focused on customer relationship management.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.