Company Watch - Embraer.
Mar 17, 2008 Embraer reported a fourth quarter net profit of BRR212.7 million reais (USD$125.7 million), down from BRR215.6 million a year earlier. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, EBITDA, rose to BRR263.9 million from BRR232.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. Embraer delivered 61...

Company Watch - Auckland International.
Apr 14, 2008 Canadian State Pension Fund (CPPIB) had offered to reduce its voting rights to 24.9 percent, the threshold for overseas ownership, from a previous 30 percent of the Auckland International Airport, to ease government concerns about foreign control. CPPIB had got a total of 63.5...

Airport Business News - Asia / Pacific.
Apr 14, 2008 Auckland International Canadian State Pension Fund (CPPIB) had offered to reduce its voting rights to 24.9 percent, the threshold for overseas ownership, from a previous 30 percent of the Auckland International Airport, to ease government concerns about foreign control. CPPIB had got...

New deduction helps with your shop's major equipment purchases: what you, and your tax guy, should know about Section 179.
Repair shops can now take full advantage of a first-year tax write-off for newly acquired equipment, due to the Small Business and Work Opportunity Tax Act of 2007. Under Section 179 on first-year expensing, shop owners can write-off up to $125,000 of the cost of equipment in one year...

BIO Praises Congress for Helping Push Growth of Biorefineries in Recent Legislation.
SciTech21-13 December 2006-BIO Praises Congress for Helping Push Growth of Biorefineries in Recent Legislation(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Executive Vice President Brent Erickson today praised the passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act for including a provision covering biorefineries. In...

Appreciating depreciation: reflecting on that red-hot downtown residential market.
in the Pentagon, they like to say, "Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." There should be a similar saying for Sarasota real estate. "Amateurs buy residential, professionals buy commercial." If so, the amateurs are having a field day in Sarasota today while the pros are hedging their...

Firms: a dynamic reading of corporate behaviour.
Abstract: This study proposes to re-examine a dynamic managerial model. Its aim is to highlight the ambivalence of the dynamic approach regarding a firm's behavioural strategies for optimisation. Key words: Corporate Behaviour, Dynamic Economics, Firms, Managerial Strategy, Rational Calculation INTRODUCTION Static economics is...

Globalization and taxation in the OECD: evidence from a new indicator of integration.
Abstract The paper presents an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic integration, social integration, and political integration. Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced OECD countries' implicit tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. The results show...

Measuring return on your most valuable asset.
We often hear businesses state that their "people" are their greatest asset. Yet, more often than not they fail to measure the value of this asset. They use traditional financial measures such as return on equity or return on assets to determine performance. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Oglebay Norton defines restructuring plans.
Oglebay Norton Co. provided the details of its previously announced restructuring plan. After implementation of the plan, the company anticipates 2002 results will include cash savings of $1 to $1.5 million after netting out all cash costs and increased earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $3...