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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

Why Law Firms Need IT Policies Is it okay to store your password on a post it note on your computer monitor in your personal office? In o rder to appreciate why law firms need IT policies, i t’s important to first identify their purpose. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership?

Chad Barr

Guest Post: Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership? The inclusion of my eclectic gift ideas made it absolutely clear that the author did not recreate my intellectual property by chance. I could lock my intellectual property away and dole it out with great caution.

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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property. Most of Apple’s intellectual property and patents are owned by a subsidiary located in Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is only 12.5%. Multinational corporations like to take advantage of any ambiguity.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting - Part 4

The Consultants Peer Group

Uphold lawful policies, practices and procedures 3.4 Uphold lawful policies, practices and procedures 3.4 Respect social … corporate responsibility concerns … assessing the impact of my actions on … society Under Serving the Interests of the Organization I work for (e.g., McKinsey, PwC): 3.1 McKinsey, PwC): 3.1

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

Tom Spencer

For example, when a shell company located in a low tax jurisdiction has no business operations other than being the formal owner of valuable intellectual property, and collecting royalty fees for it. This will prevent the most blatant forms of profit shifting. This should make the international tax system both simpler and fairer.

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Ethics Lapses Rears Its Ugly Head, Yet Again…

The Consultants Peer Group

The scheme involved creating subsidiaries that licensed Microsoft’s intellectual property rights to other subsidiaries, and charging high fees that reduced the taxable income in the U.S. to low-tax jurisdictions such as Puerto Rico. and increased it in the low-tax countries.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

Property rights, including protection of intellectual property (trade marks, copyright, patents, registered designs, trade secrets, software and circuit layouts). Government policy, trade unions, lobby groups, and the electoral cycle. Inflation, interest rates, and monetary policy. Industry regulation. Automation.

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