As such, they did not feel comfortable supplanting the functions of the Internal Revenue Service or the tax court in rendering a ruling on what they believed to be an unsettled area of the law.

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Personal Capital's planners can't perform all of the functions of full-service planners, like estate planning, and the company's plan to combine technology with human service could make the process less personal.

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These planned measures are expected to include elimination of the company's matrix organizational structure, site consolidation, transfer of activities to global delivery centers, consolidation of certain central functions, cost synergies from the integration of Motorola's wireless assets, efficiencies in service operations, and company-wide process simplification.

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The federal government, on the other hand, will essentially perform all functions of exchange management except customer service and plan management.

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The states can further choose to be in control of customer service functions such as in-person assistance.

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The number of Software-as-a-Service applications available today for managing business functions like finance, HR and more can help startups better handle rapid growth.

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