Fifty-six percent of U.S. business owners say having early payment options from their customers is a critically important business partnership consideration.

Many mid-sized U.S. cities and other areas now make attractive alternatives to India and other offshore locations for companies considering consolidating finance, IT and other business services operations for shared service or global business services centers, according to new research from The Hackett Group.

TBB Global Logistics, a provider of outsourced businesses processes for supply-chain management, has joined the BDO Alliance USA, a nationwide association of independently owned local and regional accounting, consulting and service firms.