Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at the accountants Deloitte, told the BBC that he suspected the figure was a "sensible number taking account of the scale of the business and their history of past losses".
With journalists digging for dirt and consultants hyping themselves to the heavens, there is a pressing need for a level-headed account of the consulting business which balances the industry's glaring failures against its successes.
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While 91% of advisors have at least one fee-based account in their book of business, the still remaining overall high percentage of transactional business illustrates that fee-based business has a very long way to go.
The Feds going soft on financial crime makes absolutely no sense, if you take into account the big business of financial fraud over the past 12 years.
Homeland security sales currently account for 48% of revenue, while medical imaging and monitoring bring in 24%, and other applications like photo sensors for industry and laser systems for the military account for 28% of business.
And it just so happens that the small banks with the greatest concentration of commercial real estate exposure (CRE loans equaling three times tier one capital) account for 40% of small business loans.
But important new research by career staffers at the Treasury Department concludes that there are lots fewer of these firms than many think, they account for only about 17 percent of total business income, and hire many fewer workers than the political rhetoric would have you to believe.
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The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account.
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These fee-based activities account for 70% of its business, with futures trading accounting for the rest.
Food sales, which now account for 60% of its business, led the strong results, rising 8% on a like-for-like basis in the year.
But regulation is only one of a number of factors companies take into account when assessing the relative attractions of countries for business.
A. programs blend the study of traditional business topics like finance, accounting and operations with contemporary courses that help leaders take into account personal integrity, governance and the role of business in society.
Pension funds managed on behalf of black workers account for about one-fifth of the two insurers' business.
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The same banks also account for the bulk of mortgage and business lending.
This process can be frustrating, but it certainly also helps to account for the excellent safety record of business aviation.
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The latter, a commodities trader, now feared that the IRS would levy his trading account, effectively putting him out of business.
Block and program trades for Japanese clients now account for a large portion of Morgans business and billions of dollars a month in trading volume.
For decades environmentalists have begged governments and business to take account of disappearing forests and the dwindling global water supply when building roads, apartment complexes and shopping malls.
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Four years ago, after a couple carriers went bust in Hawaii, Alaska filled the void aggressively and the islands now account for about a fifth of its business.
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Critics, including one key Congress ally Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress party say those multinational firms would put out of business millions of small-time shopkeepers, who account for more than 90% of retail revenues.
If money is entirely digitised, the company of the future could very well begin to issue its own units of account redeemable at any affiliated business, undermining the state's territorial monopoly on money.
Sony has said that the card numbers would be hard to decipher due an encryption, but experts say a hacker would still easily be able to gain control of an account, International Business Times reports.
The Department of Financial Services said those companies, which account for most of the affected homeowner, auto and business policies, received almost 390, 000 New York claims and have closed more than 68, 000 without paying as of Feb. 15.
With a 1.35% annual yield, Sallie Mae is looking to pick the pockets of established online-account players like Capital One and Ally Bank (the new business name of GMAC), which respectively offer yields as high as 1.45% and 1.39%.
But sales in emerging markets grew 10% and now account for 26% of GSK's business, the company said.
There is a huge difference between the art of wooing new business and account management, and each one requires different skills.
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Meanwhile construction of new hotels, roads, offices and factories-the nonresidential projects that account for 90% of United's business-is likely to improve.
Broadcom registered a 2.6% sequential increase in revenue from the broadband business, primarily on account of higher sales of its set-top box platforms.
In April, the FBI issued an alert about a style of attack in which hackers steal a business's online banking login details and use them to transfer funds out of the business's account.
"We have to continue managing our business as a business -- taking account of the cold realities of competition for customers, for revenues and for employees, " Liddy told a House Financial Services subcommittee.
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