Outsourcing

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…financial functions in AMA member firms. Once considered evidence of a quick-fix response to some sort of internal technical or performance lag, the practice has gained respectability because top-performing companies outsource to perform even better. Yet consultants remind companies to consider whether the practice is at least in pursuit of the right objectives. If a case for outsourcing does pass scrutiny, then consider outsourcing providers as suppliers and judge them on the basis of value-added.