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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. However, this is often difficult to do since there may be no comparable companies selling similar types of products. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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The Global Tax Agreement – A Friend or Foe for the Big 4?

Tom Spencer

According to Pillar One , companies of a certain size that generate a certain level of profits will have a portion of their profits taxed in the jurisdictions where they generate sales rather than where products are manufactured. For example, an auto manufacturer may decide to locate in Hungary because of its 9% corporate tax rate.

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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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Finding Success at the Negotiating Table as an Independent Consultant

Comatch

You will get an inside look into their daily operations and potentially even valuable IP (intellectual property). Trust is the foundation of a healthy, productive, and longstanding professional relationship. For example, what industry are they in? What scale do they operate at? Who are their competitors?

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Overseas Business Expansion: The Promise and the Pitfalls

Tom Spencer

One of the most popular options is to expand overseas, where they can tap into additional groups of consumers that want their product or service. Timelines have proved to get drawn out, which can lead to delays like those experienced by Xiamoi Corp in starting operations in a foreign nation.

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Kalypso Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

If you are interested in the emerging market of the Internet of Things (IoT) or Augmented Reality (AR) devices, or are fascinated by helping a company navigate product placement in a grocery store, Kalypso may be a good fit for you. Currently, Kalypso LP operates as a subsidiary of Palladius Inc. Intellectual Property (IP) Management.

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Corporation Oxford

Tom Spencer

Britain’s finest educational name … ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially … It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. It will consequently find life much harder in the 21st century. Oxford and Cambridge).

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