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January 7, 2008
General Trend for funding
Analysis of: Australia Mortgage-Backed Bond Sales Fall 87% to Three-Year Low | www.bloomberg.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The USA HOUSING MARKET has a big impact on Australian Housing Market based on Risk analysis on the global economy and trend.so the present instable american housing Market has a large implecation on Australian Housing market thus it is very important that US ECONOMY IS STABLE and get better,...
January 7, 2008
Can Goldman Sachs' "Midas Touch" Rescue Troubled Northern Rock From Nationalization?
Analysis of: Goldman Close to Completing Northern Rock Financing: Paper | www.reuters.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
The UK's Government has asked Goldman Sachs to find new financial backers who are prepared to back a private sector solution and put together a financing package to rescue Northern Rock. The two rival bidders, Virgin Money and Olivant's funding problems may jeopardize their proposals because lending...
January 7, 2008
BOC (Back Office Conversion) Is Posied to Take e-Payments Share In 2008
Analysis of: Solutran Reports a 34 Percent Market Share Back Office Conversion Volume | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
The introduction of Check 21 in 2004, has dramatically changed the payments landscape. Check 21 eliminated the legal barrier that had required the paper check for clearing and settlement and brought the capability for a digital image copy of the check to be the legal equivalent of the original check....
Brad FranchiJanuary 7, 2008
The rise and fall (and rise again?) of the Reverse Morris Trust (RMT)
Analysis of: Reviving the Reverse Morris Trust for Mergers | www.cfo.com
Author: Brad Franchi, President, Forest Strategies, LLC.
Think back to about a decade ago, things in the Integrated Forest Products were going well. The Mega take over’s and Corporate Raids were pretty much over – Sir James Goldsmiths et al. had raided Crown Zellerback, and forced Champion International to "White Night" Saint Regis to avoid being dismantled....
Brad FranchiJanuary 2, 2008
What is the predominant software used for mapping gas, oil, minning, and forestry operations?
Analysis of: SAP and ESRI Collaborate on Enterprise Services | esri.com
Author: Brad Franchi, President, Forest Strategies, LLC.
When building an enterprise wide geographic information system GIS, utilize the industry data standards that are already in place.  By far the largest developer of software in the GIS area ESRI, which was founded in 1969 in California.  Today the flagship product of ESRI...
Ronald KiimaJanuary 2, 2008
2007 Accounting Error of the Year: Depreciation and Amortization
Analysis of: Securities Suits Spike in 2007 | www.cfo.com
Author: Ronald Kiima, President , Kiima Incorporated
The subject article provides some interesting insights into the upward reversal in the number of securities class-action lawsuits filed during 2007.  Given such, I thought it might be fitting to offer my personal insights into what I continue to believe is the most common, yet rarely noticed, accounting...
Brad FranchiJanuary 2, 2008
What if I really want to do is take the tax advanteges of a REIT, and the operating flexability of C-Corp ownership?
Analysis of: Weyerhaeuser Names Fulton President | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Brad Franchi, President, Forest Strategies, LLC.
This line of reasoning is pretty close to the Timber Relief legislation that WY has been lobbying pretty heavily for, especially from the states of Washington and Arkansas, which contain many acres of Weyerhaeuser lands. The logic is that C-Corp (or Fee) timberlands are "double taxed" as...
January 2, 2008
Will Lexmark continue to be a "Dog" stock?
Analysis of: The Dogs of Wall Street | www.businessweek.com
Author: James Howes, President, Data Doctors Computer Services
In 2007 Lexmark again had a significant earning miss and their stock has lost almost half of its value. This happened even though the company poured a huge amount of cash into stock repurchases. It is irrational for a management team to make these repurchases if they had any idea that they were so far...
Brad FranchiJanuary 2, 2008
Will the Abitibi-Bowater merger process drive more profit to the bottom line?
Analysis of: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REQUIRES DIVESTITURE IN ABITIBI /BOWATER MERGER | usdoj.gov
Author: Brad Franchi, President, Forest Strategies, LLC.
The BOW-ATB merger was completed on Oct 29th, 2007, and the DOJ is mandating the sale of the Abitibi newsprint mill located at Snowflake, AZ, which ironically, is one of the best newsprint mill in the US.   The really difficult decisions are production curtailment or reallocation of tonnage...
Brad FranchiDecember 27, 2007
If becoming a REIT is such an attractive alternative for integrated forest products companies, why not implement imediately?
Analysis of: Weyerhaeuser Names Fulton President | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Brad Franchi, President, Forest Strategies, LLC.
Okay so now you decide to form a REIT.  What are the rules and regulations which must be followed to convert our timberlands to a REIT?   1.  The 100 owner rule states that there can be no more than 100 owners,  and one individual owner cannot have more than 9.9% of the...

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