goal is to minimize their costs as much as possible. Museums‚ which are operated similar to private companies‚ have the same goal. In order to decide where to allocate their capital a museum must asses some essential questions such as what attracts visitors to their museum‚ what is the opportunity cost to allocating capital to one resource over another and how the museum can maximize the use of the funds spent. These questions depend on many external‚ constantly changing‚ variable factors such as
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MANAGING WORKING CAPITAL Cash Budgets and Current Assets Learning Objectives Upon reading this chapter‚ students should: • Be able to compare and contrast working and fixed capital • Understand the impact of the operating cycle on the size of investment in accounts receivable and inventories • Know the differences between the three motives • Be able to differentiate between float‚ collection float‚ and disbursement float • Know how
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Financing Working Capital The financing of working capital is of utmost important. What portion of current assets should be financed by current liabilities? What portion should be financed by long-term resources? Decisions on these questions will determine the financing mix. Approaches to financing mix: There are 3 basic approaches to determine an appropriate financing mix. They are a. Hedging or Matching approach. b. Conservative approach. c. Trade-off between the above two
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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT People are arguably the most valuable asset held by an organization today. People invent new products‚ find ways to creatively reduce costs‚ deliver quality services‚ and build long-lasting relationships with customers. It is also an organization’s people and the collective skills‚ knowledge‚ and capabilities they represent as human capital – that are most difficult to duplicate by the competition. Only people can manage and maximize assets so that the assets reach their
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What is Capital Gains Tax? Computation of Capital Gains Tax Any profits or gains arising from the transfer of a capital asseteffected in the previous year shall be chargeable to income-tax under the head ‘Capital Gains’. And shall be deemed to be the income of the previous year in which the transfer took place. Capital gain is chargeable to tax on accrual basis. Kinds of Capital Gains “Short-term capital gains” gains arising from the transfer/sale of acapital asset held by an assessee for not
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Define working capital. -Working capital cycle is a firm’s current assets. Current assets are those that the firm’s expect to convert into cash within a year. b) Explain the working capital cycle and illustrate your answer by using a diagram. -The working capital cycle is measures the time between paying for goods supplied to you and the final receipt of cash to you from their sale. It is desirable to keep the cycle as short as possible as it increases the effectiveness of working capital cycle. The
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Many researches recognize the importance of social capital‚ but statistics shows that American population have experience an erosion of social capital in the past decades. As a result‚ Americans lost “the ties that bind us to communities and neighborhood” (McPherson‚ 4). Generally‚ where there is declining social capital‚ there is worsening social isolation. However‚ new studies have contradicted findings toward the previous researchers. According to Rankin and Quane’s experiment in ghetto community
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Competitive Advantage Funding 52% Growth in 1996 Funding 50% Growth in 1997 3 Conclusion 5 Exhibits Exhibit 1: Dell’s Annual Worldwide Sales Dollar Growth Versus Industry Exhibit 2: DSI Comparison of Dell‚ IBM‚ and Compaq Exhibit 3: Working Capital Financial Ratios for Dell Exhibit 4: Percent of Dell Computer Systems Sales by Microprocessor Exhibit 5: Profit & Loss Statements for Dell Computer Corporation Exhibit 6: Balance Sheets for Dell Computer Corporation Exhibit 7: Projected Balance
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CAPITAL BUDGETING ANALYSIS To achieve success over time‚ a firm’s managers must identify and invest in projects that provide positive net present values to maximize shareholder wealth. Capital Budgeting Is the process of identifying‚ evaluating‚ and implementing a firms investment opportunities. Involves long-term projects Requires large initial investment Constructing plant and equipment Time frame maybe as short as a year or as long as twenty to thirty years The profitability of a firm
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they’ll get caught they probably won’t do the crime in the first place. One of the pros of keeping capital punishment legal is that it will be a deterrent to committing capital crimes. There has been no reliable study that capital punishment deters crimes and‚ in fact‚ homicide rates are higher in states that have the death penalty. An “eye for and eye” is a common quote from the Bible favoring capital punishment. However‚ we must remember that law was from a perfect system given my God himself.
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