Issues surrounding who should have day-to-day control of human resources and finance functions in the new single force have yet to be fully settled.

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For example, now is the time to bring in those human resource, finance and marketing specialists, and the like across other functions.

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To solve that problem, he divided up the resources from the various functions (sales, marketing, finance, product management, HR) and created a series of business units.

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From 2004 to 2007, she was in the Corporate Finance group managing global finance infrastructure and controls functions.

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Also remaining in the same posts were Daim Zainuddin (finance, special functions), Syed Hamid Albar (foreign), Rafidah Aziz (international trade and industry), Ling Liong Sik (transport) and Samy Vellu (works).

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Fakahany, who was responsible for risk management in addition to other functions, will oversee Merrill's global support, finance and human resources functions, while Fleming will oversee the business lines, including risk management.

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Finance Secretary John Swinney insisted that the bill would allow ministers to improve the functions of public bodies.

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The issue of who should have day-to-day control of human resources and finance functions had been in dispute.

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The Vorstand members will not run businesses but only fulfil central functions such as operations, finance, risk and human resources.

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The new service will go live in April, but the issue of who should have day-to-day control of human resources and finance functions had been in dispute.

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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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Gaining an understanding of the relationships between finance and international strategy will enable finance professionals to exploit the substantial scope that is available to create distinctive value at the interaction between these functions.

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