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Small U.S.-Based Finance and Accounting Outsourcer Delivers Value of Large Providers

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

The bulk of most companies’ operational costs are in manpower, says Ragu Bhargava, CEO of Global Upside, Inc., a finance and accounting (F&A) service provider. That’s one of the reasons companies in all industries are increasingly bucking the long-held practice of retaining full-time F&A staff in house. Mountain View, Calif,-based Global Upside, Inc. provides services …

Hot Spots for Growth in Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Which industries will experience growth in outsourcing in the next few years, and what risks will buyers of those services face? Are there business processes or functions that will begin turning to outsourcing in the next two to five years? What value opportunities and risks will they bring? In what geographic regions will companies begin …

A Small Business Competitive Advantage: Outsourced Finance and Accounting Solution

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

A lot of small business owners are great at their business but not at handling their finance and accounting processes. This causes them to make poor decisions that could sink their business. Here’s a flexible outsourced solution for this process, and it’s totally geared to small businesses.

Real Estate Firm Makes Better Investments By Outsourcing Accounting

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Jimmy Hanson wanted to invite institutional investors to invest in his real estate management company. But he needed to revamp his accounting systems to meet their reporting needs. DTO’s real estate division solved his problem.

Outsourcing Disaster Relief

Katherine Swarts, Business Writer

After 9/ll, people from all over the world sent contributions to the Twin Towers Fund to help the families of the fallen. Outsourcing was the fastest way to handle non-core aspects of disaster relief. OPI, a Manhattan-based service provider, volunteered to provide the fund’s accounting.

Gung-Ho for More Than Vanilla

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

What’s a company to do when it has the business but not the resources to do it? Here’s the story of a deal that looked impossible at first…until it was outsourced to an ASP.

Of Equal Stature

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

BPAmoco is one of the world’s leading providers of energy and petrochemicals. As the third largest integrated oil company in the world, it enjoys considerable reach and scale. BPAmoco recognized that its core skills revolve around the products that it markets to its customers. Its accounting and transaction functions are not part of that core. We can certainly get comfortable with a third-party providing that service, allowing us to focus our attention on those things that we are good at and need to be good at, suggests David Hulf, CFO of BPAmoco Oil Europe. But only an outsourcer of equal stature would be able to supply BPAmoco’s needs.

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Small U.S.-Based Finance and Accounting Outsourcer Delivers Value of Large Providers

A Small Business Competitive Advantage: Outsourced Finance and Accounting Solution

Real Estate Firm Makes Better Investments By Outsourcing Accounting

Outsourcing Disaster Relief

Gung-Ho for More Than Vanilla

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