FINDING and evaluating a reliable consultant is not easy.
"The tolerance or even the complicity of several financial companies that collaborated with Parmalat allowed for the artificial survival of a company in the stock market that had been ailing for a long time, while being perceived by small investors as solid and reliable," a financial consultant, Stefania Chiaruttini, wrote in the report filed Tuesday in the Milan court.
Often, we simply don't know where to begin to look for a great therapist, for instance, or to find a reliable, trustworthy financial consultant, lawyer, mediator, doctor, etc.
Cancer diagnoses are highly reliable when validated against consultants' letters and hospital discharge summaries (Jick et al, 1997), and age-specific time trends in the incidence of breast cancer, for example, are closely similar to those reported by the Office for National Statistics (Kaye et al, 2000).
The best districts "have written guidelines that are well illustrated and make decisions that are firm but consistent, reliable and dependable," said Donovan Rypkema, a consultant in Washington who specializes in historic properties.
Reliable yield maps allow farmers and farm consultants to analyze yields per field, within fields, across fields and across years.
Eliisa Makin, stylist for The Independent who also runs personal styling service The Wardrobe Consultant, recommends finding yourself a reliable alteration service: "Comparatively few of us have good enough sewing skills to alter clothes ourselves," she says.
Here, however, they're wailing that a consultant they admit has been reliable in the past got paid differently than in the past and that wasn't fully briefed to the court.
Clearly they hadn't heard that valuations of internet companies arrived at by consulting the entrails of chickens are possibly as reliable as those arrived at by legions of spreadsheet-wielding consultants.
Digital image consultants provided diagnoses that were comparably reliable to the clinic-based examiners.
