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These days, living abroad no longer precludes obtaining an AACI designation. No one knows this better than Tania Wardle. In 2008, the Candidate appraiser started her courses from a most unlikely place: Barbados. After graduating with an Undergraduate Business degree from the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business in 2006, the Canadian-born Wardle decided to travel. Along the way, she stopped in Barbados to attend a cousin's wedding. Although the distance courses are designed to be done through self-study, tutors are also available to answer questions. In the end, Tania's connection with her tutor proved doubly fortuitous. While the appraisal industry in Barbados has been relatively unsophisticated, things are changing; the large projects with which Altman Real E...
... with Altman Real Estate's Property Consultancy Services Inc. (PCS) ever since. "Almost immediatel...
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The problems associated with purchasing professional services begin with the circumstances in which professionals are very often retained. It is generally accepted that so far as is practical, public procurement should be conducted in a manner that is open, transparent and fair. While there is no unanimity as to how best to achieve these three goals, very often the circumstances surrounding the retention of a private sector professional consultant are such as to make it unlikely that any of them will be attained. Since openness and transparency facilitate accountability, any inability to adhere to the standard model of procurement is obviously a matter of concern. Given the need for confidentiality, the fact that different consultants offer different types of expertise, and the fact tha...
... is not surprising that many municipal consultancy arrangements are put out to market on a sole suppl...
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... investors and also provides consulting services to corporations seeking assistance with proposals ... firewalls between their investor and consultancy business lines and by disclosing general disclaime...
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While a variety of intersecting interests connected to create a common theme of disapproval for the Buy America policy being discussed by Prime Minister Harper and President Obama, the comments by [Stephen Cottle] (above) stood out for a number of reasons. I recently learned that the CanCon legislation, which came into force on January 18, 1971, requires that at least 25 percent of all music played on AM radio stations will be dedicated to Canadian content. The CanCon regulation stipulated that at least part of the required content be "written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada." Prior to its introduction, the Canadian music industry "was regarded with indifference" by Canadian stations, thus it is safe to say that CanCon paved the way for an indust...
... (primary), manufacturing (secondary), services (tertiary) and knowledge-based (quaternary). The q... and communication technologies, consultancy, research and development." And quaternary definit...
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... du demandeur, Worldwide Immigration Consultancy Services Ltd. (WWICS), le 30 décembre 2005, au nu...
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BREAKING UP A consultancy project into different phases often seems like a good way to keep control over the project and to impose some kind of quality control. In fact, it can undermine both efforts. Changing from one consultant to another after the completion of the initial phase of a project almost always involves incurring significant additional "ramp-up" cost. The probability of even higher costs increases as each successive phase is reached. Thus, when bidding for the subsequent phases, the existing consultant can increase its bid price yet reflect the built-in cost-saving of staying with a consultant who knows the project. The need to avoid ramp-up costs also undermines the practical ability to use a competition for a subsequent phase as a quality control mechanism.
Another poten...
...For instance, in an RFP for legal services, instead of retaining a firm that handles litigati...
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..."(i) the furnishing of services, including consultancy services, by an enterprise ...
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...: excellence in the quality of its services and close attention to its customers.1. Chile.s en... all the costs involved (software + consultancy), the implementation plan, the training program, t...
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... investors and also provides consulting services to corporations seeking assistance with proposals ... firewalls between their investor and consultancy business lines and by disclosing general disclaime...
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... Judith Chegwidden of Roskill Information Services, a consultancy. China has cited "environmental" co...