WORKING CAPITAL AND FIXED CAPITAL AND ITS ADVANTAGES Introduction: A firm requires funds to acquire two types of assets : fixed assets and current assets .Fixed assets include land biulding ‚ plant‚ and machinary ‚ vehicles ‚ equipment etc.These assets relatively permanent in nature and are necessary for carrying on the bussiness .Current assets ‚on the other hand ‚are kept for supporting day-to-day operations and keep changing during the course of the business.They liquidated within short period
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America’s Working Poor Tens of millions of men and women in America struggle because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as possible. In her book Nickel and Dimed‚ journalist‚ Barbara Ehrenreich writes about her research working as a minimum wage employee attempting to get by in Americas tough economy‚ she describes in depth the struggles that the minimum wage workers suffer through and she witnesses them first hand as she goes under cover and
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Poverty in Rural Georgia: The Working Poor Introduction Pictures of rural America portray a quaint‚ friendly‚ family oriented towns where fields are green‚ everyone is happy and life is easy going. At first sight Cedartown‚ Georgia completely fits the picture. Cedartown is a rural town in northwest Georgia with a population of just under 10‚000. The community origins were farming and mining iron ore in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In the mid 1900’s industries began coming into the area
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Ineffective Utilization of Working Capital Meaning of Working Capital Business organization requires adequate capital to establish business and operate their activities. The total capital of a business can be classified as fixed capital and working capital. Fixed capital is required for the purchase of fixed assets like building‚ land‚ machinery‚ furniture etc. Fixed capital is invested for long period‚ therefore it is known as long-term capital. Similarly‚ the capital‚ which is needed for investing
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FACTORS DETERMINING WORKING CAPITAL REQUIREMENT The working capital needs of a firm are determined and influenced by various factors. A wide variety of considerations may affect the quantum of working capital required and these considerations may vary from time to time. The working capital needed at one point of time may not be good enough for some other situation. The determination of working capital requirement is a continuous process and must be undertaken on a regular basis in the light of
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Benefits of reduced working hours 31 October 2012 ChaoYu Chen Abstract In recent years‚ the line between work and leisure has become vague and even be erased. Fortunately‚ this has been noticed and the trend of reduced working hours has become significant especially in developed counties. This report informs the effects of reduced working hours for people’s health by gathering data and information from other relevant researches. The result shows that shorter working hours has positive impacts
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Working capital management : I t involves managing the relationship between a firm’s short-term assets and its short-term liabilities. The goal of Working capital management is to ensure that the firm is able to continue its operations and that it has sufficient cash flow to satisfy both maturing short-term debt and upcoming operational expenses. Management of working capital Guided by the above criteria‚ management will use a combination of policies and techniques for the management of working
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SUMMER TRAINING REPORT ON TITLE OF PROJECT REPORT Undertaken at “BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED” Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University‚ Delhi Under the Guidance of Submitted by ASIM SAHORE AMIT GUPTA Prof. MBA-III Sem Enrollment No.-09817003910 Session 2011 – 12 To Whom It May Concern I _______________________
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The Working memory model‚ proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 has great significance as it developed the multi-store model of Atkinson and Shiffrin which proposed that information was stored in specific locations; the short-term store‚ long-term store and the sensory store‚ along with suggesting the new idea of central executive and its slave systems. The Central executive is the element which is involved in a higher mental process such as decision making‚ as it can co-ordinate performances
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Benchmarking for Working Capital Strategies Many companies seek to differentiate themselves and achieve success primarily through new technologies or unique product or service offerings. Companies that apply best practices go beyond this by gaining competitive advantage through stronger and more efficient internal business processes. The role of cash management can vary greatly from one company to the next‚ making an apples-to-apples benchmark comparison of how corporations collect‚ disburse
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