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This fourth of four columns on mythbusting is aimed at an old chestnut that has been repeated so often that virtually no one ever casts a wary eye in its direction. Here is a quote from a standard intermediate textbook (italics in the original): "Cost has an important advantage over other valuations: It is reliable."
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As the life settlement industry grows at an accelerating pace, an increasing number of life insurance producers are opting to transact directly with life settlement providers -- companies that actively purchase life insurance policies in the secondary market.While executing life settlement transactions through a specialized life settlement broker is beneficial for life insurance producers who do not have the know-how, resources or desire to transact directly with life settlement providers, producers who do elect to work directly with life settlement providers may benefit from the significant opportunity to execute more efficient transactions, while raising the level of the total policy sale consideration for their clients.
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Payroll is becoming a seminal battleground in accounting software, with more than a dozen major companies offering a variety of programs. And that doesn't begin to measure new competition from banks and other financial services firms.Nor is there any consensus on the format. Established online payroll services such as CompuPay and MPay are now seeing additional competition from the likes of ADP's Run and Intuit Online Payroll. But service bureaus are likewise making a comeback as they diversify their offerings and compete more strongly on price, as the new myPay service from Thomson-Reuters is demonstrating.
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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said this about trust: "You know it when you feel it." Trust is equivalent to confidence, and is critical to learning and change. By building trust, projects take less time, are less disruptive and more successful. This applies to any type of change within a firm, but is especially important to technology, where change is rapid and projects often cost more and take longer to complete than anticipated.
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