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...fee meter is running. The death of the Arthur Andersen firm, which dissolved after being found guilty of obstructing justice in the Enron case, reduced the Big Five accounting firms to the Final Four. That in part is why audit fees for FORTUNE 500 companies are expected to climb 38% this year, according to a survey by the Public Accounting Report. Top lines for accounting firms already look healthier. Ernst & Young booked a 17.4% revenue increase in its 2003 fiscal year, to $5.3 billion. Grant Thornton booked a 21% increase, to $485 million. The other winners? Smaller shops, which...
...between 5,000 and 6,000 members. "The SPD has turned to a completely neoliberal strategy," says Händel. "While reform is necessary, it must not mean that the poor have to carry all the weight." Among the dissidents' demands: rescind the decision to charge patients a 310 fee every quarter to visit a doctor, raise pension payments that have been cut this year, and reform the tax system to benefit low wage earners. Schröder said the party might expel the rebels. Heide Simonis, the SPD premier of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, warned that...
...another. If you're a programmer in Paris with a technical problem, you can find a friend of a friend in Seattle who can help - and maybe provide a job lead. Already 1.4 million have signed on, though only a few thousand have coughed up the $25 registration fee plus $3-per-month charge. Networking sites are still primarily a U.S. phenomenon, but Monster.com has 3 million registered users in 15 European countries. Will they pay up? CEO Jeffrey Taylor thinks so: ?Unlike Friendster, we're providing a network with a purpose.? - By Jim Ledbetter All Bets Are Offshore...
...council is considering a measure to increase the optional $35 student activities fee on the term bill to a mandatory $100 fee, provided a student referendum on this issue passes. But our experiences with council funding, plus a few simple math calculations, have led us to believe that ultimately organizations like our magazine would be better off asking their members to waive the student activities fee and let the students donate that money to the main organizations they are devoted to, and that are in need. At this point, it seems to us that the wisdom of the individual will...
Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said the fee hike seems unfair in light of the millions of dollars the University is spending on other projects...