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Background
Services
Clients
Multi-Disciplinary Jobs
Charges
Confidentiality
Professional Associations |
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Background |
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Cummings Economics was first established in 1982 as W S Cummings Economic Research Services by WS & JG Cummings to provide economic and market research services based in Cairns, Australia, and based on the skills and experience of the firm’s partners (see key personnel).
Today, Cummings Economics offers:
- Access to highly professional skills and experience in economic research and analysis.
- Access to the firm’s library and to data resources built up over a 36 year period of economic research.
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Services |
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The firm offers a broad range of services, including:
- Regional economic analysis and strategies.
- Identifying impacts of individual industries on regional economies.
- Preparation of statements on regional economic structure and trends
(short and long-term).
- For prospectuses and capital raising.
- For bank finance.
- For intra company investment decisions.
- As background to marketing of properties and services.
- Preparation of background information to assist in making submissions to government.
- Demand assessments for specific projects and full feasibility studies as required.
- Benefit cost analysis of projects.
- Needs analysis for town planning, liquor and other licenses and court cases.
- Service catchment demographics.
- Project economic impacts.
- Almost anything with an economic argument involved.
Because of its location, the firm has developed a very strong capability in the regions and industries of Australia ’s tropical north east. It also has a special capability in the economics of tourism and infrastructure development. |
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Clients |
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Over the years, clients have ranged from Sydney to the Torres Straits, across to the Northern Territory and Western Australia and into the Pacific. Although the firm has carried out a great deal of work for federal and state governments, it has had a particularly strong orientation to private enterprise clients, regional organisations and local government. In its home base region (Cairns/Far North Queensland), the firm’s regular client list reads like a Who’s Who in business, organisations and government operating in the area. |
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Multi-Disciplinary Jobs |
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The firm is highly experienced in organising multi-disciplinary teams to complete jobs and in participating in multi-disciplinary teams/sub contract arrangements. |
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Charges |
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By and large, the firm charges at an hourly rate for the different personnel involved. These rates are set at reasonable regional and not capital city rates. The firm is happy to assess the time involved to complete projects and provide a cost estimate/quotation. |
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Confidentiality |
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Client confidentiality requirements are strictly observed. |
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Professional Associations |
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The firm is a long time member of the Economic Society of Australia and the Regional Science Association of Australia. |
