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...Switching to a corporation also means partners will not have to file tax returns in every US state where the firm does business, a process that has become painfully complicated as BDO USA’s annual revenues...
...In February, the SFO announced Nigeria would be paid just over £200,000 out of a settlement it had agreed with engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler, to pay the country back for tax revenue it was deprived...
...agent of Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited....
...As a proportion of GDP our debt remains lower than the USA, Canada, France, Italy and Japan....
...Volkswagen came forward much earlier,” said Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the EPA....
...The privately held British engineering group has bet its future on breaking into one of the world’s most competitive markets, pitting the entrepreneur against corporations like Volkswagen, Toyota and...
...Until recently, speculation had swirled that SNC-Lavalin would launch a counterbid for Amec Foster Wheeler, which last month agreed to be acquired by Scotland’s John Wood Group....
...John Wood Group agreed a £2.2bn deal for engineering services company Amec Foster Wheeler last month, while SNC-Lavalin acquired UK-listed Kentz Corporation, the oil and gas services specialist, for £1.16bn...
...The collapse of Amec’s approach for Kentz in September led to its spurned suitor launching an agreed $3.2bn cash-and-shares offer for US rival Foster Wheeler in January as part of a wave of continuing consolidation...
...It used to be the convention that a corporation had to take ownership or majority tenancy in a building in order to name it after itself....
...In January Amec, the UK oil services group, agreed a $3.2bn takeover of Swiss peer Foster Wheeler. In August Canadian SNC-Lavalin completed a $2bn takeover of London-listed Kentz Corporation....
...Oilfield services provider Foster Wheeler jumped 6.2 per cent to $30.50 on reports that British engineering group Amec was considering a takeover move....
...Sources: Fens; FT Corporate diary Monday, 1 April African Barrick Gold holds its AGM Corporation tax year begins; corporation tax will be cut by a further one per cent to 23 per cent, with one further...
...Strategy: A History, by Lawrence Freedman, OUP USA, RRP£25/$34.95 The word “strategy” is much used and abused by businessmen, politicians and military men....
...The acquisition of Mactec, which is based in Georgia and employs 2,600 staff, would enhance Amec’s presence “east of the Mississippi” in the USA and was consistent with Amec’s strategy of increasing its...
...political fears about the international expansion of successful Chinese companies have overshadowed the investment plans of Huawei, the telecoms equipment-maker, and state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation...
...Carnival Corporation dropped by the most in seven months on Wednesday as fears of an oil shock dragged the FTSE 100 sharply lower....
...Shares in Scott Wilson more than doubled on prospects of a bidding war on Monday after a £161m offer for the design and engineering consultancy from URS Corporation was topped by a £189m ($286m) bid by rival...
...Hewlett-Packard India ● Isabelle Ealet, global head of commodities, Goldman Sachs ● Barbara Kux, head of supply chain management and chief sustainability officer, Siemens ● Jan Fields, president, McDonald’s USA...
...Thanks.Surupa Basu, USA Chioma: My sense is that many of the full-time MBA programmes have coursework in human resource management but not MBA programmes focused on this....
...According to the Giving USA Foundation, a group that looks at trends in philanthropy, charitable giving fell during past downturns....
...The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle By Sara Wheeler Jonathan Cape, £20 Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth’s frozen regions....
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