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Finance Costs Rise By 18 Percent
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Mark Krueger
Finance Practice Managing Director
Hackett Group
 Finance costs at typical companies rose by 18 percent over the past two years, in part due to increased compliance-related costs, according to newly-released 2005 Book of Numbers research from The Hackett Group, a business process advisory firm (NASDAQ:ANSR).

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