On September 19, Cantor Fitzgerald made a pledge to distribute 25 percent of the firm's profits for the next five years, and committed to paying for ten years of health care, for the benefit of the families of its 658 former Cantor Fitzgerald, eSpeed, and TradeSpark employees ( profits which would otherwise have been distributed to the Cantor Fitzgerald partners ).

In June, 1940, formal announcement was made that the de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., had completed negotiations for the purchase from Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of that firm's holding of Airspeed ordinary shares.

The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter.

* Management fees — an annual payment made by the investors in the fund to the fund's manager to pay for the private equity firm's investment operations.

Different workstations track the firm's risk profile, sending handheld-equipped traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange instructions about how to use futures contracts to hedge trades being made at the CBOE and the CBOT.

The firm's management made a series of predictions that yielded greater profits and more legal mandates.

The firm's design philosophy arises from an interest in producing work with a meaning that can be understood by absorbing the culture for which it was made, and their goal was to develop an architecture that would eschew the normal bounds of traditional forms.

Information for the final quarter of a firm's fiscal year is included in the annual 10-K, so only three 10-Q filings are made each year.

In recognition of the firm's efforts, the French government made DuPratt White a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

The main purpose was to build a commercial practice but the firm's reputation was made as a result of George Allen's role as advisor to King Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936.

The firm's financial woes were further complicated by four large meat packing companies-Pork Cutters, Inc., Rotches Pork Packers, Inc., Otto Doerrer and Son, Inc. and Crissman, Inc .-who collectively failed to pay for nearly $ 5 million worth of pork carcasses and meat products purchased from Arbogast & Bastian in 1983 and 1984, according to charges made by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Presumably this marketing decision was made to avoid associating the 7 Up Spot with the 7 Up brand, in a region where Fido Dido has been considered the firm's official mascot since the 1980s.

Tired of the work, she made a decision to move to Spain, and taped a sales ad on the firm's notice board for her apartment.

The changes were made with the aim of increasing the firm's competitiveness and profitability, and were similar to moves made previously by other competitor firms.

Employes of Pawtucket's garbage and rubbish collection contractor picketed the firm's incinerator site yesterday in the second day of a strike for improved wages and working conditions.

Sydney Larson, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent.

* Absorption costing, or total absorption costing, a method for appraising or valuing a firm's total inventory by including all the manufacturing costs incurred to produce those goods

( For an IT company, the subject matter would be similar to the CIO's, however the CTO's focus is technology for the firm to sell versus technology used for facilitating the firm's own operations.

In that year, Vitagraph's An Auto Heroine ; or, The Race for the Vitagraph Cup and How It Was Won, contains a couple of dialogue titles, and the same firm's Julius Caesar includes three lines of dialogue from Shakespeare's play quoted in intertitles before the actors speak them, finishing with " This was the noblest Roman of them all ".

Instead of routing your order to a market or market-makers for execution, your broker may fill the order from the firm's own inventory -- this is called ' internalization.

After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the Trinity Church and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side.

The firm's master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L. P., collapsed in the late 1990s, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998 among 14 financial institutions for a $ 3. 6 billion recapitalization ( bailout ) under the supervision of the Federal Reserve.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

As applied to corporate finance, risk management is the technique for measuring, monitoring and controlling the financial or operational risk on a firm's balance sheet.

His early success in Canton as a commercial agent for opium merchants in India led to his admission in 1825 as a partner of Magniac & Co., and by 1826 he was controlling that firm's Canton operations.

An elderly and longtime Portuguese employee who worked as a bookkeeper and clerk for the firm, in his latter years with the firm, had frequently been committing serious errors in the firm's books and his mental capacity was deteriorating.

He was also responsible for removing one of the firm's ship captains for refusing to offload opium chests on the Sabbath, Matheson observed, " We have every respect for persons entertaining strict religious principles, but we fear that very godly people are not suited for the drug trade.

In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United States after being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and later failed.

A firm's weighted average cost of capital ( after tax ) is often used, but many people believe that it is appropriate to use higher discount rates to adjust for risk or other factors.

Reinvestment rate can be defined as the rate of return for the firm's investments on average.

An alternative to using discount factor to adjust for risk is to explicitly correct the cash flows for the risk elements using rNPV or a similar method, then discount at the firm's rate.

He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm's interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless.

The company had claimed that the destruction of the firm's email servers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all email before that date.

However, a wide perception that Hutton had not been punished enough ( for example, the New York Times William Safire claimed that the $ 2. 75 million fine amounted to " putting a parking ticket on the Brink's getaway car "), led several customers to pull their accounts with Hutton, and many of the firm's star performers fled to other firms.

They set up the firm's New York office, where Goodhue would preside, leaving Cram to operate in Boston.

The firm's Historic and Trophy Buildings Fund owns a number of prestigious buildings in France and Italy, and was involved in buying, and then selling, a stake in New York's Chrysler Building.

Oliver Winchester purchased the bankrupt firm's assets from the remaining stockholders, and reorganized it as the New Haven Arms Company in April 1857.

Among KKR's investors included, the Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific and United Technologies corporate pension funds as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology endowment, the Harvard University endowment and the New York State Common Retirement Fund However, KKR also faced criticism from existing investors over the firm's use of hostile tactics in the buyout of RJR.

By 1864 the warehouses were seven storeys high and extended all the way along New High Street ( now High Street ) in Manchester: " they had become the summit of the firm's hierarchical organization, the seat of its central power and the goal of all ambitious employees " ( D. A. Farnie, in " John Rylands of Manchester ", 1973 ).

It soon became apparent that Bothwell, as Treasurer, had mismanaged affairs at the company's New York office resulting in the firm's collapse.

Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817 and later entered into a partnership with the owner of the firm, who asked him to run the firm's New York branch.

In December 1949, Royall became a partner at the prestigious New York City law firm of Dwight, Harris, Koegel and Caskey, becoming the firm's head in 1958.

In 1928 he joined the Chicago-based firm of Alexander Grant and Company, certified public accountants, and continued his part-time studies at Columbia University while working at the firm's New York City office.

The firm's headquarters were eventually moved to New York City, where it helped found the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870 ; Emanuel sat on the Board of Governors until 1884.

In 2003, the company was one of ten firms which simultaneously entered into a settlement with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), the Office of the New York State Attorney General and various other securities regulators, regarding undue influence over each firm's research analysts by its investment-banking divisions.

Bill DeVasher: A former New Orleans police detective, now the firm's security chief.

Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times wrote that " Mr. Grisham, a criminal defense attorney, writes with such relish about the firm's devious legal practices that his novel might be taken as a how-to manual for ambitious tax-law students.

After ending his term as mayor, Washington joined the New York-based law firm of Burns, Jackson, Miller & Summit, becoming a partner there and opening the firm's Washington, D. C. office.

The firm's clients include the Brooklyn Brewery, Jet Blue, Target, Coach, Trump, Eleven Madison Park, Alessi, Juilliard, the Rubin Museum of Art, Theatre for a New Audience, the School of Visual Arts, Bread Alone, ADV Magazine's Philly Gold Awards, Philip Roth, Clay Felker, and numerous periodicals.

After leaving the Navy, Robertson moved to New York City and worked for a time as a stockbroker for Kidder, Peabody & Co .. At Kidder, he eventually headed up the firm's asset management division ( Webster Securities ) before departing to move with his family to New Zealand for a year to write a novel.

The firm's architecture has been the subject of two books: Gund Partnership 1994-2007, with an extensive foreword by New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and Graham Gund Architects, published in 1993, with an introduction by Vincent Scully.

In 1996, instead of returning to Blackstone, he co-founded Evercore Partners, a boutique advisory and private equity investment firm in New York City, and currently serves as firm's Chairman.

In 2008, the firm's asset management division announced it had been selected to invest the personal assets of Rattner's close friend, the billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.