DeCesaris, SVP Managed Solutions at Tangoe, a telecom expense management firm in Orange, Conn.
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Workday sells software to manage employee data, time tracking, procurement, expense management and financial accounting.
Despite this difficult environment, we were able to meet our expectations for margin through disciplined expense management.
However, we have been able to offset these impacts with strong sales growth and our disciplined expense management growth.
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Mobility management runs the gamut from device management, to mobile application management, secure document sharing, and even mobile expense management.
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Concur Technologies, provider of online expense management software, posted mixed results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended September 30.
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According to Concur, a provider of travel and expense management services, London tops the list, followed by Shanghai, Singapore, Beijing and then Toronto.
The basis of competition will shift to other aspects of the business, such as customer relationships, claims processing, expense management and distribution.
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Fifth Third, for example, has long been known for its tight expense management, but its efficiency ratio was 63% in the fourth quarter.
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions and apparently thinks TripIt is on to something based on the acquisition price.
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The focus on expense management is a positive for Dell's bottom line but could also affect the top line, as it becomes its own best case study.
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One thing to keep in mind: most software vendors have built and are improving their own time and billing mobile apps for their products which include expense management.
Better-than-expected results were mainly aided by prudent expense management.
In her report, Genereux said she anticipates margin erosion in the company's U.S. division is set to continue, and may even increase, due to years of weakening same-store sales and poor expense management.
Concur Technologies, which makes expense-management applications, began its transition to the cloud in early 1999, in the heart of the dotcom boom.
"The assumption is going to be that, as an organization, you will already have your data in line, " said Jerry Schmits, a conference panelist and director of product marketing for expense-management consultancy Cadence Network.
The amount of this research expense the money management industry transfers onto its clients is in the billions annually.
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But not, it seems, at the expense of losing management control.
Other signals to move on include an upward trend in annual management expense ratios (MERs) or a fund that has grown large, relative to the market.
That said, relief from the one-size-fits-all audit requirement does allow companies to defer meaningful expense while allowing management discretion over when and how to deploy resources on the controls that matter most.
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The current economic downturn, which has been exacerbated by the build-up and unraveling of complex financial instruments, has made it clear that some overly focused business leaders pursued innovation and profit at the expense of proper risk management.
Critics, however, think that company bosses are able to steer firms to incorporate in states that are friendly to management at the expense of shareholders.
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Based on management's expense guidance, there are at least 50% incremental margins on each additional dollar of base revenue, and performance fees offer additional outsized leverage.
Short-termism can result in a range of corporate and financial games that may enrich management at the expense of market integrity and efficient investor capital allocation.
CIOs must follow this advice, but they also must make a clear case that as the number of technology assets grows, the management sophistication and expense must also grow.
Management fees and total expense ratio data provided by Fitzrovia International, Plc.
"The case is about allowing a trustee to do his job, and freely deduct administrative costs including investment management fees as a business expense, " Cantrell says.
The average closed-end fund tracked by Lipper Analytical Services has a 1.34% annual expense burden, the sum of overhead and management fees.
As a member of the Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ) board, Buffett recently opposed the bank management's decision not to expense stock options.
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