Financing Alternatives
31 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Financing Alternatives Tags: Development, company, business, inventory, growth, lead, capital, time, survive, generate, alternative, financing, living, enough, buy, personal, bank, original, stage, cash, need, quick, reach, further, consume, course, free, obtain, rare, probably, circumstance, expense, sale, amount, except, sufficient, institution, steady, first, investor, die, working capital, seed, negligible, stagnate
By the time your company reaches its first stage of development, it has probably consumed most, if not all, of its original seed capital. Although business may be looking up, sales are not generating enough free cash to buy the inventory needed for further growth. And, of course, the amount of cash you have taken out of the business for personal living expenses has probably been negligible.
Except in very rare circumstances, a new business needs about three years of steady growth before it generates free cash in sufficient amounts to survive. Working capital to keep the business growing must come from outside the company. Financing must be obtained from banks, other leading institutions, or investors, or the company will stagnate and quickly die.
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Boolean Logic
30 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Boolean Logic Tags: allow, appear, Boolean, choice, conduct, consist, engine, exclude, logic, logical, narrow, operator, record, require, result, retrieve, search, term, wrong
When conducting a search, you may end up with too many choices or the wrong results. Some search engines allow you to narrow your search by using Boolean Logic. Boolean Logic consists of three logical operators: AND, OR, and NOT.
AND requires all terms to appear in a record;
OR retrieves records with other term;
NOT excludes terms.
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Monopoly Regulation
29 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Monopoly Regulation Tags: accounting, achieve, adequate, agency, aim, attract, business, bust, capital, characterize, common, Competition, consider, Consumer, correspond, deal, economic, electric, enterprise, equilibrium, Europe, excessive, exploitation, extreme, gas, goods, government, high, important, inefficiency, laissez faire, lead, limit, long, monopoly, natural, need, normal, occur, own, ownership, perfect, philosophy, policy, possibility, possible, power, practice, price, private, profit, provide, public, Quality, quantity, railroad, range, regard, regulation, represent, Resource, result, run, sense, service, standard, suppose, telephone, toleration, transportation, trust, Unfair, US, usually, utility, water, zero
Monopoly is usually considered to lead to economic inefficiency. Excessive monopoly profits are commonly regarded as unfair to consumers. Policies for dealing with monopoly range from laissez faire or toleration at one extreme to “trust-busting” at the other. Another possibility is to put monopolistic enterprises under government ownership, as is commonly done in Europe for railroads and telephone service. Regulation of the monopoly’s price and quantity or quality of service by a government agency is important. In the US regulation is standard practice for privately owned ‘public utilities’ providing goods and services such as electric power, water and gas, telephone, and transportation—usually thought to be natural monopolies.
The standard philosophy of regulation aims at limiting the monopolist to a ‘normal profit.’ Normal profit is supposed to be just adequate to attract needed capital and other resources into the business, but not so high as to represent exploitation of consumers. Normal profit in the accounting sense corresponds to zero economic profit. Zero economic profit characterizes long-run equilibrium in perfect competition. In a sense regulation achieves the result that may occur if competition is possible.
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Leading
28 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Leading Tags: Behavior, close, component, dynamic, employee, forth, function, goal, group, hire, include, leadership, leading, major, manage, manager, managerial, member, motivate, Organization, People, per se, process, relate, train, work
Leading is a managerial function. It is the process of getting members of the organization to work together toward the organization’s goals. A manager must hire and motivate people, train them, and so forth. Major components of leading include motivating employees, managing group dynamics, and leadership per se, all of which are closely related to major areas of organizational behavior.
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Span of Control
25 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Span of Control Tags: acceptable, control, effective, job, manager, number, People, report, represent, routine, set, span, subordinate, supervise
The number of people reporting to any one manager represents that manager’s span of control. A manager should not have too many subordinates. An acceptable span of control is often set at four to eight people. More people can be supervised effectively if their jobs are routine ones.
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Mistake
24 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Mistake Tags: able, act, agreement, announce, basis, belief, case, certain, classify, contract, court, deal, decide, decision, depart, depend, describe, error, existence, fact, form, Fraud, fulfill, grant, hold, ignorance, include, judgment, justice, kind, law, material, mind, misrepresentation, misstatement, mistake, mutual, nonexistence, obligation, obvious, party, place, Product, rescission, rule, seem, sense, situation, term, thing, true, try, unilateral, unlike, untrue, victim
The term mistake is used in contract law to describe the situation in which one or both of the parties to an agreement acted under an untrue belief about the existence or nonexistence of a material fact. In mistake cases, unlike fraud and misrepresentation cases where the victim is also acting under a mistaken belief about the facts, the mistaken belief about the facts is not the product of a misstatement by the other party. Mistaken in this sense does not include errors of judgment, ignorance, or a party’s mistaken belief that he or she will be able to fulfill certain obligations under a contract. The things that were said about materiality and fact in the law misrepresentation hold true in mistake cases.
In deciding mistake cases, courts often seem to be trying more obviously to do justice than in other kinds of cases. This is why decisions in mistake cases sometimes seem to depart from the announced rules of law dealing with mistake.
Mistake cases are classified as mutual or unilateral, depending on whether both or only one of the parties was acting under a mistaken belief about a material fact. Mutual mistake is always a basis for granting rescission of the contract at the request of either party. Clearly, no meeting of the minds took place and therefore no true contract was ever formed.
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Individual Power
21 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Individual Power Tags: base, boast, capacity, definite, distribute, equal, fact, factor, feel, greater, individual, inevitable, influence, involve, life, Organization, People, potential, power, successfully, thing, word
Power involves the potential to influence others successfully—both the things they do and the ways they feel about something. The individual bases of power are the factors that give people the capacity to influence others successfully.
It is an inevitable fact of organizational life that some individuals can boast a greater capacity to influence the people around them than others. In other words, power is definitely not distributed equally in most organizations.
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Electronic Mail
21 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Electronic Mail Tags: application, catalogue, change, cost, costing, direct, disappear, effective, electronic, email, expensive, imagine, increasing, mail, mailbox, mailing, mean, package, paper, penny, piece, postage, printing, processing, produce, purchase, relative, Response, typical, Value
The cost of paper, printing and postage for the typical direct mail package is increasing its cost. What’s more, the cost of processing a response can easily be more expensive than producing the mailing. That means direct mail is only cost effective for relatively high-value purchases. Therefore, imagine how many more applications there would be for electronic direct mail costing—just a few pennies per piece. Use email.
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