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What were the "Experts" thinking?

PSMJ Resources

Some of these problems are simply a failure of supposedly responsible individuals not following long established and fundamental financing practices. One of the basic rules in financing any purchase is that you match the length of the financing to the usable life of the assets. The simplest example is car financing.

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State by State Incentives Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

ALABAMA - updated for 2014. Alabama Infrastructure Grant Program: Funds are available to public entities for extension of water, sewer and road facilities to service new or expanding industries. Businesses that request CAPCO investment funding must meet certain criteria and requirements set by the Alabama Development Office.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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INCOME TAX CAPITAL CREDIT: Currently codified as Article 7, Chapter 18, Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975. It is a credit of five percent of the capital costs of a qualifying project, to be applied to the Alabama income tax liability or financial institution excise tax generated by the project income, each year for 20 years.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

The new facility, which will increase Apple’s workforce in Austin to more than 6,700, will serve as the primary operations nexus for the company in the Americas outside of Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, CA, centralizing accounting, human resources, sales, marketing and finance. 10 in our Economic Growth Potential metro ranking.

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Good Trouble—Necessary for Home Builders, Too

Pro Builder

A few years later though, a VP of finance at that company bragged to a national meeting about the huge “profit center” he was accumulating through unpaid labor—work done but which contractors never billed for. The next morning, the VP of finance was gone and the chairman made sure everyone throughout the company understood why.