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Study Group: IPO Specialists

Council Members in this Study Group: 110

This study group may include chief financial officers, chartered public accountants, controllers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as finance, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting and fraud, financial accounting and reporting, bankruptcy, pension benefits, cash flow, company valuation, working capital, hedge accounting, and mergers and acquisition, among others.

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Transition from Solaris to AIX is not a major hurdle-Support and Convert

March 19, 2009

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The impact will not be significant since a transition to IBM AIX (as an example) for Solaris trained administrators is straight forward and not prohibitively costly. The future savings of using AIX versus SPARC/Solaris will far outweigh the conversion/implementation non-recurring cost. Utilizing agradual...

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  • Accounting & Audit Firm

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  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Partner
  • Controller
  • Consultant
  • Professor
  • Director
  • VP Finance
  • Principal