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The model's full reasoning — Q4 2022 call → NOWe need answer YES or NO. Need analyze transcript. Question asks whether management indicates economic terms of newest business have stepped up meaningfully above company's own recent norm, and improvement only begun to flow into reported results because most business in reported numbers still written at older less favorable terms. We need look for evidence. Transcript: Korn Ferry Q4 2022. They discuss fee revenue, new business highs, RPO new contract awards, professional search, etc. But do they discuss pricing/terms? They mention wage inflation, fees up 20% in professional search vs pre-COVID, search fees up 10%. But is that "new business terms improved vs own recent norm"? They say "We saw it in professional search, for example, in May. So when you look, just take today versus pre-COVID, you'd find that knowledge workers is where professional search operates, our average fees are up 20%. In the search business, it's less than that. It's probably more like 10%. But we're continuing to see that. We haven't seen a falling off there." This is about wage inflation and fees? Actually question asks economic terms of newest business - prices, rates, fees, contract sizes, durations, profitability. Management mentions average fees up vs pre-COVID. But is that "meaningfully above company's own recent norm"? Pre-COVID is recent? Also they say "We even saw it in May. We're continuing to see it, which may not be great news for the economy, but we're continuing to see it. We saw it in professional search, for example, in May." This is in response to "wage inflation and inflation in general. What sort of levels of wage inflation are you currently seeing in terms of the new assignments, both in terms of professional as well as executive search?" So Gary says fees are up 20% vs pre-COVID in professional search, 10% in search. That indicates fees on new assignments are higher than pre-COVID. But is that "step up above company's own recent norm"? Pre-COVID is maybe recent norm? But also they attribute to inflation? The question says NO if better pricing is described mainly as passing through company's own cost increases (inflation, freight, materials, wages, currency) rather than genuine step-up. Here fees up due to wage inflation? Actually they are talking about wage inflation in new assignments, fees are up. It might be pass-through of higher salaries? Need see context.
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CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...