Hackett: Financial Management Network, ``The Cost of Finance: Why is it Rising?''

  
    
  
  
    
      In this half-hour video interview, Hackett Finance Practice Leader Bryan 
      Hall details Hackett’s 2007 Finance Book of 
      Numbers findings around the rising cost of finance at typical companies 
      and the role that compliance has played.
    
    
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