Sentence examples for peer firms from inspiring English sources
With Dewey's announcement, these students' careful, fastidiously risk-averse career planning collapsed under them, and they fell off the job track not just for Dewey but for its peer firms.
Instead, we would anticipate trade between China and the rich world to more closely resemble trade within the rich world: "peer" firms in both countries will sell relatively similar goods to both markets.But I don't think we should quite leave things there.
The office in a metro area auditing the largest number of peer firms along a given similarity dimension is considered to be the social norm office for that dimension.
We identify peer firms using four alternative dimensions of similarity: client geographic location, industry affiliation, client size (filing status), and departing auditor type (Big N versus non-Big N).
Companies can potentially use compensation peer groups to inflate pay by choosing peers that are larger, choosing a high target pay percentile, or choosing peer firms with high pay.
Related to this limitation, Jackson (2017) recently wrote an extensive critique on discretionary accruals measures, labelling them "noisy proxies" for EM and noting that EM may be heavily influenced by the behaviour of peer firms rather than other independent variables addressed in EM studies.
David Naylor is head of the advanced media and technology group at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, and has advised a number of peer-to-peer firms.
Anyone who has bought a song from the popular iTunes store might wonder why peer-to-peer firms don't forgo all of these hassles and organize themselves like Apple, with tightly policed central servers.
But companies cheat by packing the comparison group with "aspirational peers"–firms that are larger, more successful and pay more.
While government regulators think about it, however, peer-to-peer texting is largely relying on self-regulation by cell carriers, campaigns, smartphone makers, and the peer-to-peer firms.
This helped the company increase the size of its market, which is key if a new peer-to-peer firm is to thrive.
