Rich individuals were made to sign confidentiality agreements, and the deals were done in great secrecy, in case the Revenue was monitoring movements in the gilts market.
Smart cash registers have become a commodity, and that makes them very cost-effective tools for monitoring revenue.
Investors have been closely monitoring revenue this quarter as a signal of how companies are navigating their way away from the bunker mentality of the recession toward more sustainable strategies to grow profits.
According to Bob O'Donnell, research manager for IDC's PC display and multimedia technologies research program, the reason monitor revenue is increasing faster than shipments is because unlike most other PC-related categories, average selling prices for monitors are on the rise.
It fine-tuned its pay practices in 2005 and inserted a good measure of discipline-carefully monitoring revenues as well as the capital and risk involved in making a deal happen, and going to great lengths to figure out exactly who brought in the business.
Attempts to enhance adherence to the user fee policy and to further reduce official charges should be accompanied by strategies to compensate facilities for lost revenue and carefully monitor fees charged.
The aim of this endeavor is to transfer the regulatory powers of the government to TRAI for most purposes, such as determining tariffs, monitoring revenue-sharing between operators (including the Government's Department of Telecommunications), settling disputes between operators and protecting consumer rights.
To create the added revenue needed for expanded monitoring, officials said, the city will increase the cost of transportation permits paid by the private haulers.
OpSec Security, which provides physical and online brand protection, has seen revenues from its online monitoring business grow by more than 20% annually for the past two years, even as revenues for its shipping services declined (because companies are shipping fewer items).
And Exxon, for all its gruff talk, is at the heart of a controversial project aimed at monitoring the revenues generated by the new Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline.
According to the Bookseller, Donaldson's 2014 sales topped £10m in the UK last week, ahead of publishing titans such as JK Rowling and Dan Brown, becoming "the only author to record five years in a row of eight-digit revenue since [book sales monitor Nielsen] BookScan records began".
