Electronic Money: Trends in Future Spending Throughout the years‚ forms of payment and money have evolved drastically. From Native Americans using wampum to the invention of PayPal and other computerized payment methods‚ the way we spend money has become more adaptive to our lifestyles with convenience and ease of use. As electronic commerce is advancing and more people are embracing and accepting the use of computers and electronic forms of payment. Credit cards and checking accounts were the
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History of money The history of money spans thousands of years. Numismatics is the scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms. Many items have been used as commodity money such as natural scarce precious metals‚ cowry shells‚ barley‚ beads etc.‚ as well as many other things that are thought of as having value. Modern money (and most ancient money) is essentially a token — in other words‚ an abstraction. Paper currency is perhaps the most common type of physical money today.
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Is Money a Motivator? There are countless articles circulating today instructing managers on how to motivate their employees. Some theories state that all workers are motivated primarily by the need for money; so if you want to get the most out of your workforce‚ you pay them more. So‚ is money a motivator? Motivation is the encouragement to do something.(1) There are short term motivators and there are long term motivators. There are also different levels and sides to motivation. In this
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Money; There are huge varieties of thoughts and ideas of what comes to mind when thinking of money. It may include happiness‚ luxury‚ or for some‚ the root of all problems. As money is an essential part of life‚ money alone cannot buy happiness but instead creates distress‚ causing downfalls to one’s being. In Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case‚” Paul‚ the protagonist views money as the key to escape his poor life and live the fabulous life he deserves. As other factors shape Paul’s way of viewing money
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Happiness is not money Nowadays it is hard to have a good life with no money. Most people relate money with happiness because it allows people to own everything they want‚ but it is not that way. Money does not mean happiness; it is actually a means to achieve happiness. However‚ happiness’ definition is a bit blurred. It depends on the people who have already enjoyed the essence of happiness. That is the reason why money and happiness get confused. A person with values will know that money does not buy
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Money management is a strategic technique employed at making money yield the highest of interest-yielding value for any amount of it spent. Spending money to provide answers to all cravings (regardless of whether they are justifiable or not to be included in budget basket) is a natural human phenomenon. The idea of money management techniques is developed to plummet the amount individual‚ firm and institutions spends on items that add no significant value to its living standard‚ long-term portfolios
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Can Money Buy Love? Imagine growing up and never finding that perfect someone. Now imagine two people meeting and one of the two people thought that the other person was so great that they thought the other was their "perfect" someone. What if the decision of the two ever becoming a couple was not up to you‚ but up to your particular social status? Is it reasonable to base who you will marry clearly on the bases of ones personal wealth or social status? The answers to these questions can
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future benefits ‚ feasibility ‚ accessibility‚ comforts ‚contingency and growth. Now‚ the affordability factor‚ this factor is made so achievable that nothing seems to be beyond reach. How is that? Its the introduction of plastic money. The widely used kind of plastic money is credit card and debit card. Of these two the debit card is the payment affordability upto the balance in the account hold in the bank. But the credit card is a boasters to the factor of affordability. The invention of financial
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upwards or downwards. to take account of the newly announced information. In 1986‚ Clifford W. Smith Jr.‚ took note of some very important patterns about the stock market’s reactions security offerings and explored them through his article entitled Raising Capital: Theory and Evidence. His primary finding was that‚ on average‚ announcements either lead to reductions in the market valuations of companies issuing securities or being ‘insignificantly different from zero.’ Furthermore he noted that there
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ECONOMIC MATTERS Ill Effects of Black Money on Growth of Economy V. Gopalan* A ccording to the data provided by the Swiss Bank‚ India is topping the list with almost $1500 billion of its black money deposited with them‚ followed by Russia $ 470 billion‚ UK $390 billion‚ Ukraine $100 billion and China with $96 Billion. It looks like India’s share is more than rest of the world combined‚ 13 times larger than the nation’s foreign debt and about 40% of GDP of India. Every year this
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