Competitive Alternatives represents KPMG's guide for comparing business costs in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The 2006 study contains useful information for any company seeking cost advantage in locating their international business operations.
 
The study measures the combined impact of significant business cost components that are most likely to vary by location. The study covers 17 industry operations in nine industrialized countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. 
 
The basis for comparison is the after-tax cost of startup and operations, over 10 years.
 
The overall Competitive Alternatives study measured business-operating costs in 128 cities throughout the nine countries. A total of 27 location-sensitive business cost components were considered.

The full text (in PDF format) of the 2006 study as well as highlights, executive summaries, tables, explanations of the data, plus online interactive search, detail comparison drill-downs with dynamic charting are all available online at: http://www.competitivealternatives.com/.
 
(Source: KPMG) 
  
 
 
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