Forum Communications Company is a media firm based in Fargo, North Dakota. The company prints a number of newspapers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
The company also owns Fargo radio station WDAY-AM 970 (though it no longer owns WDAY-FM 93.7) and four ABC-affiliated television stations in North Dakota, best known for pre-empting most NBA Countdown shows on Sunday Mornings. The company also owns a CW affiliate in Fargo.
As of June 7, 2006, Forum Communications announced the purchase of rival newspaper Grand Forks Herald as well as Duluth News Tribune.
In May 2009, Forum Communications ceased publication of two of its newspapers, the Lake Elmo Leader and the Stillwater Courier.

The scope of services offered by accounting firms is expanding rapidly. Advances in technology, coupled with changes in clients’ demands, are enabling and encouraging increasing numbers of accounting firms to offer a wide array of services in addition to traditional accounting, auditing, attest, bookkeeping, and tax services. In addition, the requirements to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley financial reporting requirements has greatly increased the need for publicly-traded corporations to augment their accounting staffs. At the same time, recent financial scandals over back-dating of options at public firms and other problems has further cast scrutiny on proper accounting procedures. All of these have added impetus to the growth in accounting in the past few years.


Traditionally, the Big Five accounting firms were Andersen Worldwide, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, and KPMG. dominated the global market in 1998 with combined global revenue exceeding $58 billion, well over half the industry’s total revenue. In terms of revenue growth, the late 1990's were strong for the Big Five, attributable primarily to the boom in consulting services. Andersen Worldwide led the pack with net revenues of $13.9 billion, a 23 percent increase over 1997. On average, fees from management consulting services accounted for nearly half of all the revenue earned by the top eight accounting firms in fiscal year (FY) 1998, surpassing the revenue generated by accounting, auditing, attest, and tax services combined. The July 1998 merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand to form Pricewaterhouse- Coopers created the largest accounting network in the world, whose FY 1998 net global revenue exceeded $15.3 billion.


Today, the Big Five have been reduced to the Big Four with the collapse of Andersen resulting from the Enron scandal. They include Price WaterhouseCoopers, Deloitee Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Two other players have significant revenues. BDO International and Grant Thornton International, each have almost $3 billion in annual billings and have 30,000 and 25,000 employees respectively.

While cleaning the toilet is a weekly task for a third of the nation (36%) new research from Mintel reveals many Brits are considerably less enthusiastic about the cleanliness of the smallest room in the house.

Indeed, shamefully, Mintel finds one in ten (8%) of us bring out the loo brush just two to three times a month, while a shocking 2% (equating to 1 million Brits) never clean their toilets at all.
Overall, 15% of Brits admit they clean their toilets on a less than weekly basis. Meanwhile, some 10% of Brits are hygiene enthusiasts, cleaning their toilets on a daily basis, and the same number (10%) scrub the pan between four and six times a week - enough to satisfy even the likes of Kim and Aggie.

While the desire for a clean home is generally widespread - with more than three quarters (78%) of adults really caring about their house being clean and four in ten (41%) people describing themselves as house-proud - over half (52%) say they can always find better things to do with their time than cleaning and over four in 10 (41%) admitting to sometimes being embarrassed about the state of their home.

Richard Caines, Senior Retail Analyst at Mintel, said:
“These findings show a wide variation in different people’s approach to household cleaning, ranging from the almost excessive to those who are in danger of putting the health of themselves or their family at risk through a lack of attention to toilet cleaning. There is definitely an opportunity for brands to re-engage consumers with what can be seen as a tedious task.

Longer-lasting results and more powerful formulas should be the focus for encouraging purchase of more specialist cleaning products. Every household job needs a suitable cleaning product, and having the right tools can make a big difference to results.”

And it seems where we live has an impact on how keen we are to clean, as Mintel finds those living in the Midlands have the brightest bogs in Britain, as they are the most likely to clean once a day or more (12%) and the least likely to clean their toilets less than once a week (10%).

By contrast, those living in the North and Yorkshire and Humberside are the region most likely to clean on a least frequent basis, with some 16% of people living in this region cleaning their toilets less than once a week.

The capital city fares well on the cleanliness stakes, with more than one in ten Brits living in Greater London and the South East (11%) cleaning their toilets once a day or more.

Hand washing the dishes and pans is the most frequently carried out daily task - with six in ten (59%) Brits doing this chore once a day or more. Meanwhile, cleaning the ovens and windows is the job Brits are most likely to ignore, with almost half (45%) of Brits admitting they clean their oven once a month or less.

And while gender equality may be increasing in many areas of life, almost seven in ten (68%) women still do most of the cleaning in the household, with just 28% of men taking on the central role in the cleaning department.

Overall, just under a third (31%) of all households share their cleaning responsibilities, while just 2% of the nation pay for help around the home.

Only 13% of Brits have an established cleaning routine. While one in ten (9%) leave their cleaning until their home is really messy, almost one in twenty (4%) have totally given up the chance of ever having a clean and tidy home.

Finally, four in ten people (40%) see cleaning the house as a good form of exercise, indicating the degree to which health and fitness has filtered in to every aspect of day to day life.
 
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Forum Communications Company is a media firm based in Fargo, North Dakota. The company prints a number of newspapers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
The company also owns Fargo radio station WDAY-AM 970 (though it no longer owns WDAY-FM 93.7) and four ABC-affiliated television stations in North Dakota, best known for pre-empting most NBA Countdown shows on Sunday Mornings. The company also owns a CW affiliate in Fargo.
As of June 7, 2006, Forum Communications announced the purchase of rival newspaper Grand Forks Herald as well as Duluth News Tribune.
In May 2009, Forum Communications ceased publication of two of its newspapers, the Lake Elmo Leader and the Stillwater Courier.

The scope of services offered by accounting firms is expanding rapidly. Advances in technology, coupled with changes in clients’ demands, are enabling and encouraging increasing numbers of accounting firms to offer a wide array of services in addition to traditional accounting, auditing, attest, bookkeeping, and tax services. In addition, the requirements to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley financial reporting requirements has greatly increased the need for publicly-traded corporations to augment their accounting staffs. At the same time, recent financial scandals over back-dating of options at public firms and other problems has further cast scrutiny on proper accounting procedures. All of these have added impetus to the growth in accounting in the past few years.


Traditionally, the Big Five accounting firms were Andersen Worldwide, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, and KPMG. dominated the global market in 1998 with combined global revenue exceeding $58 billion, well over half the industry’s total revenue. In terms of revenue growth, the late 1990's were strong for the Big Five, attributable primarily to the boom in consulting services. Andersen Worldwide led the pack with net revenues of $13.9 billion, a 23 percent increase over 1997. On average, fees from management consulting services accounted for nearly half of all the revenue earned by the top eight accounting firms in fiscal year (FY) 1998, surpassing the revenue generated by accounting, auditing, attest, and tax services combined. The July 1998 merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand to form Pricewaterhouse- Coopers created the largest accounting network in the world, whose FY 1998 net global revenue exceeded $15.3 billion.


Today, the Big Five have been reduced to the Big Four with the collapse of Andersen resulting from the Enron scandal. They include Price WaterhouseCoopers, Deloitee Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Two other players have significant revenues. BDO International and Grant Thornton International, each have almost $3 billion in annual billings and have 30,000 and 25,000 employees respectively.

While cleaning the toilet is a weekly task for a third of the nation (36%) new research from Mintel reveals many Brits are considerably less enthusiastic about the cleanliness of the smallest room in the house.

Indeed, shamefully, Mintel finds one in ten (8%) of us bring out the loo brush just two to three times a month, while a shocking 2% (equating to 1 million Brits) never clean their toilets at all.
Overall, 15% of Brits admit they clean their toilets on a less than weekly basis. Meanwhile, some 10% of Brits are hygiene enthusiasts, cleaning their toilets on a daily basis, and the same number (10%) scrub the pan between four and six times a week - enough to satisfy even the likes of Kim and Aggie.

While the desire for a clean home is generally widespread - with more than three quarters (78%) of adults really caring about their house being clean and four in ten (41%) people describing themselves as house-proud - over half (52%) say they can always find better things to do with their time than cleaning and over four in 10 (41%) admitting to sometimes being embarrassed about the state of their home.

Richard Caines, Senior Retail Analyst at Mintel, said:
“These findings show a wide variation in different people’s approach to household cleaning, ranging from the almost excessive to those who are in danger of putting the health of themselves or their family at risk through a lack of attention to toilet cleaning. There is definitely an opportunity for brands to re-engage consumers with what can be seen as a tedious task.

Longer-lasting results and more powerful formulas should be the focus for encouraging purchase of more specialist cleaning products. Every household job needs a suitable cleaning product, and having the right tools can make a big difference to results.”

And it seems where we live has an impact on how keen we are to clean, as Mintel finds those living in the Midlands have the brightest bogs in Britain, as they are the most likely to clean once a day or more (12%) and the least likely to clean their toilets less than once a week (10%).

By contrast, those living in the North and Yorkshire and Humberside are the region most likely to clean on a least frequent basis, with some 16% of people living in this region cleaning their toilets less than once a week.

The capital city fares well on the cleanliness stakes, with more than one in ten Brits living in Greater London and the South East (11%) cleaning their toilets once a day or more.

Hand washing the dishes and pans is the most frequently carried out daily task - with six in ten (59%) Brits doing this chore once a day or more. Meanwhile, cleaning the ovens and windows is the job Brits are most likely to ignore, with almost half (45%) of Brits admitting they clean their oven once a month or less.

And while gender equality may be increasing in many areas of life, almost seven in ten (68%) women still do most of the cleaning in the household, with just 28% of men taking on the central role in the cleaning department.

Overall, just under a third (31%) of all households share their cleaning responsibilities, while just 2% of the nation pay for help around the home.

Only 13% of Brits have an established cleaning routine. While one in ten (9%) leave their cleaning until their home is really messy, almost one in twenty (4%) have totally given up the chance of ever having a clean and tidy home.

Finally, four in ten people (40%) see cleaning the house as a good form of exercise, indicating the degree to which health and fitness has filtered in to every aspect of day to day life.

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