The issues driving the technology industry today are many and varied. They include:
Globalisation - It's a small world and getting smaller every day. While e-business and the Internet are erasing the traditional cost and time barriers, doing business on a global scale brings its own unique set of challenges. PricewaterhouseCoopers can help, offering Market Entry and Expansion Strategies, Expatriate Services, Transfer Pricing and Customs and Duties Services, just to name a few.
Keeping Pace with Ever-Changing Markets - Moore's Law, Internet Time, 24/7 -- today's technology companies face a two-year generation cycle and an ever-increasing pressure to do it all faster and faster. In this environment, joint ventures and strategic alliances become vital strategies for survival and internal growth vs. external buying becomes a life or death decision. From Change Management to Channel and Supply Chain Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers can help companies make smart decisions that will keep them competitive.
Financial Market Expectations - Shareholder value, earnings per share, revenue recognition -- these are constant drivers for all public companies or companies planning an IPO. And with many dot.com companies having little or no revenue, selecting the right accounting option, managing intellectual assets and risk, and careful tax planning become key factors in successfully meeting the market's expectations.
Converging Technology - As traditional boundaries between entertainment, communications, media and technology come crashing down, ably assisted by the Internet, corporate mergers are on the rise. In a world where strategic alliances, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions are the norm, services such as Business Model Planning, Intellectual Asset Management, and Valuation are vital to helping a company make smart decisions for continued growth.
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Tax and Legal Services and Financial Advisory Services experts stay on top of all the latest tax code and accounting changes to ensure that our clients are putting their best foot forward for their shareholders.
Managing Fast Growth - The average time from start-up to IPO has shrunk from five years to one or two years. Young technology firms are growing at breathtaking double and triple digit rates. But uncontrolled growth can bring about disaster, particularly when a company's infrastructure can't support its sudden growth. PricewaterhouseCoopers offers E-Business Assurance, Operational Resilience, IT and Systems Risk, Business Continuity Planning, Strategic Risk, and Financial Management risk services, as well as a number of other services to assist companies manage their fast growth.
Financing - With more venture capital deals being struck in the fourth quarter of 1999 than in all of 1998 combined, getting financing may not seem like a challenge. However, determining the right kind of financing, in the right amount and at the right time, can be daunting to both the hottest dot.com start-up and the steadiest expanding growth company.
PricewaterhouseCoopers offers Business Plan Evaluation, Venture Capital Guidance, Valuation Services and IPO Services as well as proven expertise to provide objective, knowledgeable solutions to even the most complex financing problems.
E-Business/Internet - Changing customer expectations, shifting business models and dramatically altered financial recognition processes are just a few of the major issues - and opportunities - e-business is raising.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a number of products and services to help companies adapt to this new business environment, including: e-safe service, which assists companies in protecting and defending their digital assets; and real option valuation, which provides companies with an accurate valuation of their e-business assets. We are the leading provider of assurance services, technical expertise and objective risk management and transaction advice in the e-business economy.
If you wish to obtain more information about our services, please contact us at
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