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January 31, 2009
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January 30, 2009
Top 10 Business,–small Business Ideas for Those That Want to Quit Work Someday
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January 29, 2009
Finance, Credit, Investments-modern Interpretation
Finance, Credit, Investments – Economical Categories. Modern Interpretation Scientific works in the theories of finances and credit, according to the specification of the research object, are characterized to be many-sided and many-leveled. The definition of totality of the economical relations formed in the process of formation, distribution and usage of finances, as money sources is widely spread. For example, in “the general theory of finances” there are two definitions of finances: 1) “…Finances reflect economical relations, formation of the funds of money sources, in the process of distribution and redistribution of national receipts according to the distribution and usage”. This definition is given relatively to the conditions of Capitalism, when cash-commodity relations gain universal character; 2) “Finances represent the formation of centralized ad decentralized money sources, economical relations relatively with the distribution and usage, which serve for fulfillment of the state functions and obligations and also provision of the conditions of the widened further production”. This definition is brought without showing the environment of its action. We share partly such explanation of finances and think expedient to make some specification. First, finances overcome the bounds of distribution and redistribution service of the national income, though it is a basic foundation of finances. Also, formation and usage of the depreciation fund which is the part of financial domain, belongs not to the distribution and redistribution of the national income (of newly formed value during a year), but to the distribution of already developed value. This latest first appears to be a part of value of main industrial funds, later it is moved to the cost price of a ready product (that is to the value too) and after its realization, and it is set the depression fund. Its source is taken into account before hand as a depression kind in the consistence of the ready products cost price. Second, main goal of finances is much wider then “fulfillment of the state functions and obligations and provision of conditions for the widened further production”. Finances exist on the state level and also on the manufactures and branches’ level too, and in such conditions, when the most part of the manufactures are not state. V. M. Rodionova has a different position about this subject: “real formation of the financial resources begins on the stage of distribution, when the value is realized and concrete economical forms of the realized value are separated from the consistence of the profit”. V. M. Rodionova makes an accent of finances, as distributing relations, when D. S. Moliakov underlines industrial foundation of finances. Though both of them give quite substantiate discussion of finances, as a system of formation, distribution and usage of the funds of money sources, that comes out of the following definition of the finances: “financial cash relations, which forms in the process of distribution and redistribution of the partial value of the national wealth and total social product, is related with the subjects of the economy and formation and usage of the state cash incomes and savings in the widened further production, in the material stimulation of the workers for satisfaction of the society social and other requests”. In the manuals of the political economy we meet with the following definitions of finances: “Finances of the socialistic state represent economical (cash) relations, with the help of which, in the way of planned distribution of the incomes and savings the funds of money sources of the state and socialistic manufactures are formed for guaranteeing the growth of the production, rising the material and cultural level of the people and for satisfying other general society requests”. “The system of creation and usage of necessary funds of cash resources for guarantying socialistic widened further production represent exactly the finances of the socialistic society. And the totality of economical relations arisen between state, manufactures and organizations, branches, regions and separate citizen according to the movement of cash funds make financial relations”. As we’ve seen, definitions of finances made by financiers and political economists do not differ greatly. In every discussed position there are: 1) expression of essence and phenomenon in the definition of finances; 2) the definition of finances, as the system of the creation and usage of funds of cash sources on the level of phenomenon. 3) Distribution of finances as social product and the value of national income, definition of the distributions planned character, main goals of the economy and economical relations, for servicing of which it is used. If refuse the preposition “socialistic” in the definition of finances, we may say, that it still keeps actuality. We meet with such traditional definitions of finances, without an adjective “socialistic”, in the modern economical literature. We may give such an elucidation: “finances represent cash resources of production and usage, also cash relations appeared in the process of distributing values of formed economical product and national wealth for formation and further production of the cash incomes and savings of the economical subjects and state, rewarding of the workers and satisfaction of the social requests”. in this elucidation of finances like D. S. Moliakov and V. M. Rodionov’s definitions, following the traditional inheritance, we meet with the widening of the financial foundation. They concern “distribution and redistribution of the value of created economical product, also the partial distribution of the value of national wealth”. This latest is very actual, relatively to the process of privatization and the transition to privacy and is periodically used in practice in different countries, for example, Great Britain and France. “Finances – are cash sources, financial resources, their creation and movement, distribution and redistribution, usage, also economical relations, which are conditioned by intercalculations between the economical subjects, movement of cash sources, money circulation and usage”. “Finances are the system of economical relations, which are connected with firm creation, distribution and usage of financial resources”.We meet with absolutely innovational definitions of finances in Z. Body and R. Merton’s basis manuals. “Finance – it is the science about how the people lead spending `the deficit cash resources and incomes in the definite period of time. The financial decisions are characterized by the expenses and incomes which are 1) separated in time, and 2) as a rule, it is impossible to take them into account beforehand neither by those who get decisions nor any other person”. “Financial theory consists of numbers of the conceptions… which learns systematically the subjects of distribution of the cash resources relatively to the time factor; it also considers quantitative models, with the help of which the estimation, putting into practice and realization of the alternative variants of every financial decisions take place”. These basic conceptions and quantitative models are used at every level of getting financial decisions, but in the latest definition of finances, we meet with the following doctrine of the financial foundation: main function of the finances is in the satisfaction of the people’s requests; the subjects of economical activities of any kind (firms, also state organs of every level) are directed towards fulfilling this basic function. For the goals of our monograph, it is important to compare well-known definitions about finances, credit and investment, to decide how and how much it is possible to integrate the finances, investments and credit into the one total part. Some researcher thing that credit is the consisting part of finances, if it is discussed from the position of essence and category. The other, more numerous group proves, that an economical category of credit exists parallel to the economical category of finances, by which it underlines impossibility of the credit’s existence in the consistence of finances. N. K. Kuchukova underlined the independence of the category of credit and notes that it is only its “characteristic feature the turned movement of the value, which is not related with transmission of the loan opportunities together with the owners’ rights”. N. D. Barkovski replies that functioning of money created an economical basis for apportioning finances and credit as an independent category and gave rise to the credit and financial relations. He noticed the Gnoseological roots of science in money and credit, as the science about finances has business with the research of such economical relations, which lean upon cash flow and credit. Let’s discuss the most spread definitions of credit. in the modern publications credit appeared to be “luckier”, then finances. For example, we meet with the following definition of credit in the finance-economical dictionary: “credit is the loan in the form of cash and commodity with the conditions of returning, usually, by paying percent. Credit represents a form of movement of the loan capital and expresses economical relations between the creditor and borrower”. This is the traditional definition of credit. In the earlier dictionary of the economy we read: “credit is the system of economical relations, which is formed while the transmission of cash and material means into the temporal usage, as a rule under the conditions of returning and paying percent”. In the manual of the political economy published under reduction of V. A. Medvedev the following definition is given: “credit, as an economical category, expresses the created relations between the society, labour collective and workers during formation and usage of the loan funds, under the terms of paying present and returning, during transmission of sources for the temporal usage and accumulation”.Credit is discussed in the following way in the earlier education-methodological manuals of political economy: “credit is the system of money relations, which is created in the process of using and mobilization of temporarily free cash means of the state budget, unions, manufactures, organizations and population. Credit has an objective character. It is used for providing widened further production of the state and other needs. Credit differs from finances by the returning character, while financing of manufactures and organizations by the state is fulfilled without this condition”. We meet with the following definition if “the course of economy”: “credit is an economical category, which represents relations, while the separate industrial organizations or persons transmit money means to each-other for temporal usage under the conditions of returning. Creation of credit is conditioned by a historical process of fulfilling the economical and money relations, the form of which is the money relation”. Following scientists give slightly different definitions of credit: “Credit – is a loan in the form of money or commodity, which is given to the borrower by a creditor under the conditions of returning and paying the percentage rate by the borrower”. Credit is giving the temporally free money sources or commodity as a debt for the defined terms by the price of fixed percentage. Thus, a credit is the loan in the form of money or commodity. In the process of this loan’s movement, a definite relations are formed between a creditor (the loan is given by a juridical of physical person, who gives certain cash as a debt) and the debtor. Combining every definition named above, we come to an idea, that credit is giving money capital of commodity as a debt, for certain terms and material provision under the price of firm percentage rate. It expresses definite economical relations between the participants of the process of capital formation. Necessity of the credit relations is conditioned, from one side, by gathering solid quantity of temporarily free money sources, and from the second side, existence of requests of them. Though, at the same time we must distinguish two resembling concepts: loan and credit. Loan is characterized by: · Here, the discussion may touch upon transmission of money and also things form one side (loaner) to another (borrower): a)under the owning of the borrower and, at the same time, b) under the conditions of returning same amount or same quantity and quality of the things; · The loaning of money may bear no interest; · Any person may take part in it. With the difference with loan, credit, which is somehow a private occasion of the loan, represents: · One side (loaner) gives to the second one (borrower) only money, and _ for temporal usage; · It may not bear no interest (if the assignment doesn’t foresee something); · In it creditor is not any person, but a credit organization (at the first place, banks). So, a credit is the bank credit. To our mind, it is not correct to use “credit” and “loan” as the synonyms. Banking crediting is the union of relations between bank (as a creditor) and its borrower. These relations touch upon: a) Giving a certain amount of money to the borrower for definite purpose (though, we meet with the so-called free credits, aims and objects of crediting are not appointed in the assignment); b) Its opportune returning; c) Getting percentage rate from the borrower for using the sources under his/her disposal. The essential foundation of the credit essence and its important element is existence of trust between the two sides (in Latin “credo”, from which comes the word “credit”, means “trust”). From the position of circulation of money forms (in the abstraction, historical process of formation economical relations and social budget and banking systems expressed by them) comparing different definitions of finances and credit, the paradox conclusion appears: credit is the private occasion of finances. And truly, from the position of movement of the money forms, finances represent the process of formation and usage of the funds of cash means. Very often such movements are fulfilled without returning, but sometimes, it is possible to give loans from the budget for the investment projects of other needs. Also, when a manufacture or corporations use their cash funds and we mean the finances of industrial subject, such usage may be realized as inside the manufacture or corporation (there is no subject about returning or not returning of the usage), so gratis under conditions of returning. This latest is called commercial form because of transmitting the sources to others, but even in this occasion, it is the element of financial system of the manufacture and corporation. From the point of cash means movement, main character of credit is the process of formation and usage of the funds of cash means under the conditions of returning and, as a rule, taking the value-percentage. If gating the credit value doesn’t take place (even in the exceptional occasions), according to the movement form, credit becomes a private occasion of finances, as from the net financial funds (consequently from the state budget) the loans which bear no interests may be used. If gating credit value takes place, by the appearance form, credit is discussed to be financial modification. From the historical point of view, finances (especially in the sort of the state budget) and credit (beginning with usury, later commercial and banking) were developing differently for considering credit to be the part of finances. Though, from the genetic-historical point of view, previous loaners, before giving loan, needed gathering the permanent capital not returning, that is the net financial foundation. The banks analogously needed concentration of the important own capital for influxing the consumers’ means and for getting higher percentage rate under the conditions of returning. Herewith, exactly on the financial basis, in the sort of financial fund (which later partially becomes loan fund) part of the bank capital appears to be the reservation (insurance) part of the fund, which by nature is financial and not loan. So notwithstanding the essential distinctions between finances and credit form the genetic-historical point of view, credit appears to be formed from finances and represent their modification. From the essential position of expressing economical relations of finances and credit, we meet with cardinal distinctions between these two categories. Which mostly expressed by the distinction of the movement forms notwithstanding they are returnable or not. Finances express relations in the aspects of distribution and redistribution of social product and part of the national wealth. Credit expresses distribution of the appropriate value only in the section of percentage given for loan, while according to the loan itself, a only a temporal distribution of money sources takes place. Herewith, there is a lot of common between the finances and credit as from the essential point of view, so according to the form of movement. At the same time, there is a significant distinction between finances and credit as in the essence, so in the form too. According to this, there must be a kind of generally economical category, which will consider finances and credit as a total unity, and in the bounds of this category itself, the separation of the specific essence of the finances and credit would take place. Funding of the cash means is common to the researched economical categories. It takes place in any separate system of finances and credit, which have been touched upon during the analyses of defining finances and credit. Word combination “funding of the cash sources (fund formation)” reflects and defines exactly essence and form of economical category of more general character, those of finances and credit categories. Though in the in economical texts and practice, it is very uncomfortable to use a termini, which consists of three words. Also, “unloading” with an information hardens greatly its influxing into the circulation even in the conditions of its strict substantiation and thoroughness. In the discussing context we consider: 1) wide and narrow understanding of economical category of the finances; 2) discussing finances in narrow understanding under general traditional meaning; 3) discussing finances, as funding of the cash means, in wide understanding, which concerns finances – in narrow meaning and credit – in complete meaning. Termini “funding” and its equivalent “fund formation” are used by us as the purposeful structuring of cash means, which is based on two poles – accumulation of money sources (gathering) and its usage for definite purpose in the way of financing and crediting. We have established a new termini – “finance-investment sphere” (FIS). Analyses about interrelation of finances and credit made by us give us an opportunity of proving, that in the given termini, the word “financial” is used with the meaning of funding cash sources, its purposeful structuring. In this process we consider at the same time financial, credit and investments’ economical categories. Let’s sum up middle results of discussing new concept – “finance-investment sphere” and discuss its investment consisting parts. The concept “investments” was brought into the native economical science from the West. In the Soviet economical science they for a long time used in the place “investments” the termini “capital placement”, which expressed the usage of the industrial factors in the sphere of real industrial activities during realization of capital projects. From one glance, this termini in its concept is identical to the “investments”, consequently it is possible to use them as synonyms. Though the termini “investments” and “investing” have the advantage towards the termini “capital placement” from linguistic and philological points of view, because they are expressed with one word. This is not only economical and comfortable in the process of working with the termini “investment” itself, but also it gives an opportunity of termini formation. More concretely: “investment process”, “investment domain”, “finance-investment sphere” – all these termini are much more acceptable. Changing native economical termini with foreign ones is purposeful, if it really matters (by keeping parallel usage of the native termini for the inheritance). Though we must not change native economical termini into foreign ones all together, when by ordinal traditional language easy to explain private and narrow concrete processes and elements get their own termini. The “movement” of these termini is approved in the narrow professional bounds, but their “spitting out” into the economical science may turn economical language into the tangled slang. Let’s discuss termini – “investment” and “capital placement’s” usage in the economical literature. Investments are placement of funds into the main and circulation capital for the purpose of getting profit. “Investments in material assets – are the placements of funds into the mobile and real estate (land, buildings, furniture and so on). Investments in financial assets are the placements of funds into the securities bank accounts and other financial instruments”. We don’t meet with the termini “investments” in the earlier economical dictionary, but we meet the combined termini “investment policy” – the union of the industrial decisions, which guarantee main directions of the capital investments, the activities of their concentration in the determinant suburbs, on which the reaching of planned rates of development of the society production is depended, balancing and effectiveness, getting more and more production and profit of the national income for every lost Ruble”. For today, in the most actual definitions, the capital investments are bounded only by financial means, when not only financial, but also the investment of natural, material-technical and informational resources takes place. Labour resources take an actual place in the investment process. They themselves fulfill this or that investment process. A positive side of the discussed definitions is that they connect investment policy and capital placements (investments): - economical development according to the key directions to the concentration; - providing high rates of economical growth; - raising an economical effectiveness, which is expressed: a) by growing the throw off of the production and national income for every lost Ruble; b) by fulfilling the branch structure of the investments; c) by improving their technological structure; d) by optimization of their further production structure. Compared with such definition of the investments (capital placement) the definition of investments in the dictionary attaching the “Economics” seems to be unimproved: “investments – the expenses of gathering production and industrial means and increasing material reserve”. In this definition current expenses (production expenses) are mixed with the investment (capital) expense. Also, not the investment expenses but (though the investments are followed by the appropriate expenses) exactly advancing. It differs from the expenses by that the means (means) are put by returning the advanced values, also, under the conditions of growth, to which the concept-advanced capital is corresponding. the advancing may be realized in the money, natural-material and informational forms. Except the termini “investments”, there are two more termini related with the investment. They are shown below. “Human capital investment” – any activity provided for rising the workers labour productivity (in the way of growing their qualification and developing their abilities); at the expenses of improving the workers’ education, health and raising the mobility of the working forces”. It is very useful to use the mentioned termini, though it needs one correction: the human capital investments do not concern only workers, but also the servants, representatives of every kind of labour. “Investment commodity, capital goods – a capital.” In the official manuals of political economy of the reformation time the capital investments are discussed as “expenses for creating new main funds and widening, reconstruction and renewing the active ones”. In this definition the investments (capital placements) during separation of the forms (types) of further production of the main funds are bounded only by main funds (without increases of the circulation funds and insurance reserves): a) creating new ones; b) widening; c) reconstruction; d) renewing. Also, the concept of the industrial gathering appears, at the expenses of widening of basic, circulation funds and also insurance reserves takes place”. You’ll meet below the definitions of investments from “the course of economy”: the investments are called “placements of fund into the basic capital (basic means of production), reserves, also other economical objects and processes, which request long-termed influxing of material and cash means. “According to the division of capital into physical and money forms, the investments too must be divided into material and cash investments”. They apportion investment commodity, to which belong industrial and nonindustrial building objects, vehicles purposed for changing or widened technical park and the furniture, increasing reserves and others. “They call the total investments of production an investment product, which is directed towards keeping and increasing the basic capital (basic means) and reserve. Total investments consist of two parts. One of them is called the depreciation; it represents important investment resources for compensation of renewal till the level of before industrial usage, wearing out and repairing of the basic means. Second consisting part of the total investments is represented by net investments – capital investments for the purpose of increasing basic means”. Depreciation is not a compensation resource of wearing the basic funds out, but it is the purposeful financial source of such resources. Human capital investment is “a specific kind of investments, mostly in education and health protection”. “Real investments are the investments in the economical branches and also, they are kinds of economical activities, which provide influxing the increases of real capital, that is increasing material values of the industrial means”. We can agree with such definition with one specification that material and nonmaterial values too belong to the real capital (wealth), consequently science-researching experimental-construction results, various information, education of he workers and others. Such service as organization of the excitable games, also the service of redistribution social wealth from one private person to another (except charity). “Financial investments represent placement of funds into the shares, obligations, promissory notes, other securities and instruments. Such investments, of course, do not give increases of the real material capital, but they help getting profit, consequently at the expenses of changing the course of the securities in the time of speculation, or distinguishing the course in different places of sell and purchasing”. We share wholly such definition, hence it follows that financial investments (if it is not followed by real investments as a result) do not increase real material wealth and real nonmaterial wealth. According to this context, the expression below is very important: “we must distinguish financial investments, which represent placement of the funds in the ways of selling and purchasing the securities for the purpose of getting profit and financial investments, which become cash and real, moved to real physical capital.” In the “economical course” quoted before long and short-termed investments are separated. Recognizing the existence of the bounds between them, the authors ascribe short-termed investments to “one month or more” investments. If we get such conditioned criteria, that we can call the investments which overcome the terms of some months, long-termed ones, which is very doubtful and we don’t agree with it. A long-termed character of the fund placement is a significant feature of the investments (short-term doesn’t combine with the concept of investments). Principally, it would be better to point out quick compensative, middle termed compensative and long-termed compensative investments: - less then 6 months – quick compensative; - from 6 months up to the year and a half – middle termed compensative; - more then the year and a half – long termed compensative. We stopped at the definition of the investments in the capital work “economical course” for the special purpose, as, in it the author tried to discuss the concept of investments systemically and quite completely, herewith the book is published just now. We’ll return to the discussion the definition economical category of “investments” in different publications in the following chapter. The definitions given here are quite enough for having a notion of the level of lighting up the given category in the economical literature. What conclusions may be made according the definition of the mentioned economical category in the published works, except the made notions and specifications? There is quite deeply, concretely and thoroughly defined the concept of “investments”, different definitions in the economical literature; but mostly in every works about the investments discussed by us until now, there is not opened the essence of investments as an economical category. In every monograph, even if it has a title investment, as an economical category, there is given only the definition, concept of investments. But, as the Academician Vasil Chantladze explains, “a concept is a discussion, which proves something about the distinguishing feature of the researched object. A concept out of much essential characteristic features represents only one, and essential in it is only – definition”. But the categories are much wider; it is “a key, the most fundamental concept of every science”. Economical categories theoretically represent real, objectively existed productive relations. A category is the defining of occasions of existed characters, connections, relations of the objective world. Generally, any educational process is fulfilled by the categories, which give opportunities for dividing the processes and occasions semantically, for expressing the definitions of a subject and realize their specific peculiarities and economical relations of a material world. Our goal is exactly to substantiate investments – as an economical category and also, as a financial category in the narrow understanding. Here we apply for another manual thesis made by the academician Vasil Chantladze: “every financial relation is an economical one and every financial category is and economical one, but not every economical relation and economical category is financial relation and financial category”. In the process of defining the investments, it is important to take in mind the sides of resources, expenses and incomes, because investment, from one side, is the result of the manufacture’s activity, and, from another one, – a part of income, which, in this case, is not used for usage. Another occasion: it is advisable to discuss investments in two aspects: as a category of reserve and flow, which will reflect exactly the connection between “placement of funds” and “investments”. As we’ve mentioned above, not long ago, in the well-known Soviet literature the concepts of “the placement of funds” and “investments” were accepted to be the synonyms and concerned to be investment of sources for further production of the main funds and formation of the turnover funds. We meet with such understanding of the concept of “investment” (here, they separate three types of the investment expenses: investments in the basic capital of investments, investments in the house building and investments in the reserves) in the modern economical publications and it is mostly used on the macro level during a statistical analyze of economical processes. In this concrete occasion investment is the category of reserve. According to the aspect of flow the investments may be discussed in the process of analyzing industrial activity, when it is necessary to learn the variety of the economical relations related with the investments’ further production and formation, sources, objects and subjects, that is on the micro level. Main distinguishing criteria of different methods of approach towards the concept of “investment” the aspect of prolonging of measuring this showing. Is it possible or not to measure the investment showing separate from the term factor (the norm of gathering, the volume of capital property, the reserves of production and so on). If it is possible, then it is the category of reserve, and if it is not, then it is measured in the section of time and belongs to the category of flow. Thus, investment, as an economical category, is quite consuming concept. It concerns the elements defining the regularities of function and regulation of the investment domain, privately: First, resources and values put into the industrial activity. Here, investments may be realized in the following ways: 1. mobile and real estates (buildings, constructions, furniture and other material values); 2. cash sources, purposeful bank accounts, credits, shares and other long-termed securities; 3. owners rights according to the author’s rights, licenses, Now-How, experience and other intellectual values; 4. the rights for using land and other natural resources, also other owners rights. Notwithstanding any forms, investments are results of capital gathering. Leading investments – regularity of gathering defines its volume and dynamics and, generally, whole investment activity. Second, the incomes ruling volume and dynamics of the resource investment. Herewith, we must underline the circumstance, that the process of getting profit, the regularity of its creation, isn’t a constant of the concept “investment”. The factors of production (also the conditions of exploitation of capital values) and selling (market conjuncture), also the process of capital gathering is the leading and important condition only for the investment formation. Though, we underline again, that the process of getting and distributing the income is a significant component of the investment activity. The transformation of investments makes the basis for the investment activity, which concern the following circles: resources – investment (expense) – capital property – income. The practice of realization such circles of the investments transformation is exactly the investment activity (investing). The investment activity, except the investments itself, concern motivation and stimulation of the capital gathering, relations of capital gathering and ruling, also, totality of the defined level of profitability on the capital and the goals of capital growth. According to the mentioned above, in the definitions of the investment as economical category sometimes the needed exactness and clearness is not felt, some categories of the wealth are represented tightly enough. For example, real prosperity is bounded only by material estimation. This leads us to the unvalued investment resources in the era of transformation industrial society into the investment one; also to the recognition of yet uninvolved valuable scientific researches in the production, securities turned into speculation objects, and unreal property in the consistence of one and the same parts; to there equalization. On the basis of the made analyses, we can cite a wide definition of the investments together with the leading categories. Investment resources – are values, invested into this or that project in this or that kind for the purpose of getting profit beginning with material ones, finished with cash. Kinds of the prosperity are equal to the kinds of the investment resources and is divided into real and cash, consequently into financial resources. Real investment resources concern all kinds: - natural resources; - labour resources; - material resources, the usage of which is possible in the economical development (buildings, constructions, vehicles and furniture, transport and communication means and so on; - investment resources (in the widest understanding, that is from scientific-research and experimental-construction works, till the education potential of the society and till all kinds of gathering useful information, written about every possible, that is typing and electronic bearer). Cash, consequently financial resources concern every cash means for usage in this way in definite conditions or directed in the sort of investments. Cash means (resources) turn into the financial resources in the case of structuring of funds of purposeful destination foreseen for investments of this or that kind. After defining investment resources we can make wide definition of the investments as economical category. Investments – are the placements of real, financial and intellectual resources into the projects, the fulfillment of which leads us to getting the increases from real wealth, in the material and informational forms. It is followed by a cash (financial) prosperity or its increases (at the expenses of the distribution of the cash means). As an economical category, investments express economical relations, which are created in the ways of using and formation of the investment resources between the participants of the investment process for the purpose of improving and widening of the enterprise.
January 28, 2009
Simple Business Stationery Themes To Start Your Business
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Branching out to begin your own business is a courageous act and requires tremendous planning, not to mention many large purchases from office space to office furniture. Amidst all of the start-up stresses, it’s easy to overlook smaller items, such as business stationery. However, omitting stationery from your initial purchases puts you behind the game because it’s the key to portraying a successful image.
Why Purchase Business Stationery
The basic elements of a business stationery package include several elements: letterhead, envelopes, and business cards. Before you make your first sale, you want to ensure that your business portrays a completely professional image. Simply printing your business name and address at the top of white paper is a bad decision that could hurt your business. If you want your new business to be taken seriously by potential clients and vendors, you can’t send out an introductory letter printed on computer paper. It sends the message that you aren’t invested in your business enough to design proper business stationery.
Less is More: Choosing the Right Business Stationery
You don’t need to panic and feel that you need to hire an expensive marketing firm to create an elaborate business stationery package. Even if you haven’t developed a logo, you do have a business name and purpose, and this is enough to begin.
Professional, yet simple business stationery is best. Spend some time looking at different color schemes and paper types before making a decision. Think about what products or services your business offers and choose simple business stationery that complements your goals. If your business will cater towards a wealthy demographic, choose a more formal paper and elegant design. If your business is more casual, choose a less refined business stationery package, but don’t lose that professional feel.
Business Stationery Tips and Ideas
If your business has a concrete theme, such as a floral shop, landscaper, or clothing boutique, you can use this to build your simple business stationery package. For example, if you are opening a landscaping business, you might choose business stationery that features a modern grass border along the bottom. You can then print your business name and information printed in green in the upper left corner.
If your business requires more formal business stationery, as the case would be with a law firm or accounting company, you will need to take a different approach. You might choose ivory linen paper with your company’s monogram in the top left corner followed by your contact information. This is simple business stationery that will inspire confidence in your clients.
If you have developed a logo and marketing plan, including a website, for your new business, then take a hint from your current color scheme and develop simple business stationery that continues your theme. This creates continuity for clients who, upon receiving a letter, might visit your website. If the two are drastically different, it could signal to potential clients that your business is not cohesive or ready to handle their business.
Keeping your business stationery simple, professional and cohesive will keep you a step ahead of your competition and pay dividends over time.
January 27, 2009
5 Ways That Resellers Can Survive & Thrive Economic Turmoil
The Bad News The U.S. economy may have finally slipped into a recession and all sectors of the economy are rightfully concerned. Credit markets are freezing and citizens are losing their homes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped under 10,000, for the first time since October 2004, a number that represents a large psychological blow to the American psyche. Despite extraordinary government intervention, the nation is gripped in fear that any effort to try to reverse the unraveling of once-solid companies may not be enough. Don’t think that the economic crunch is the problem of the U.S. alone. The fear of a worldwide recession is growing each day. Ireland has fallen into recession as the country’s economy dropped by 0.5% in the second quarter. Analysts are saying that Germany and Spain could be next. Iceland, once a nation that gave its citizens one of the world’s highest per capital incomes, is on the brink of becoming the first “national bankruptcy” of the global financial meltdown. The Nikkei has plummeted more than 9 percent and other Asian and Pacific markets suffered heavy losses. All over the world, stocks and bonds are falling-and there is no end yet in sight. Why Is This Happening? Experts believe that if one would study the trends during the past half century, a sharp downturn in U.S. housing always translates into a recession. Unfortunately for the whole world, U.S. housing prices plummeted by a record 15.4% in quarter two compared to last year (and as this is being written, falling faster). Even more troubling is the theory that was developed after a long-term examination of U.S. history. In “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy”, authors William Strauss and Neil Howe explains their theory that the U.S. is entering an extended period of collapse or crisis. Using data gathered by examining historical cycles, the authors are convinced that an era called a “Fourth Turning” will start occurring in 2005 and may possibly last until the late 2020s. How This Affects VARs In a financial crisis of this magnitude, every sector is affected. Whether you like it or not, the pains of Wall Street will hit the I.T. Market and affect your company. Tighter credit, rising energy costs, and a morbid fear of the current economic situation will result in lower revenues and profit for VARs across the U.S.Furthermore, as reported by CNN, VARs won’t be insulated from the economic downturn through the “old recession proof strategy” of serving a diversity of sectors. Even business activity for the service sector–which encompasses retail, transportation, health care, and construction–has plummeted. According to Forrester Research, nearly 50% of U.S. companies have cut back on IT spending and nearly all have frozen discretionary spending. As a result of this economic storm, tougher competition will emerge as VARs will find themselves scavenging in a marketplace with fewer sales opportunities. This market will be even more price sensitive and this will result in even lower margins.This will not be a question of maintaining revenue. For a lot of VARs, this will be a question of survival. Historical indicators are not pointing to a short period of financial instability. Rather, it is becoming more apparent day by day that the economic downturn may last years. Some of the corporations that have fallen like Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Bear Stearns, AIG Inc., Iceland’s Landsbanki, and Germany’s Hypo Real Estate are giants with sterling reputations. No corporation is safe. Adjustments need to be made. Five Approaches to VAR Survival in the Current Economy Unfortunately for resellers, raising prices to protect margins isn’t the wisest thing to do-although it may be the easiest. With competition at its fiercest and with customers with shallow pockets, VARS need to come up with more creative ways to survive in such a gloomy, economic environment.As reported in publications like Channel Insider, CRN, and CNN, listed are five ways a VAR can cope with the current conditions: 1. Concentrate on Recession-Proof Products. Simply put, there are products that IT customers can’t live without. Some technology products will remain in high demand and will give VARs continuous profit no matter how hard economic conditions may be. It may be a good idea for channels to refocus effort on these so-called recession-proof products in order to survive in a tough market. The following are some examples of high-demand tech products: Commerce Applications, Network Infrastructure, Application Development, Enterprise Application, Storage Solutions, Business Intelligence Software, Managed Services, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Mobility Solutions. 2. Reduce Expenses.Although this may seem basic, it is now even more important that VARs find more ways to cut costs. Channels should become thriftier and closely monitor corporate expenses from employee phone calls to travel budgets. Human resources should also be closely reviewed. Some corporations may find it necessary to cut the fat.Laying off employees is difficult and it can sometimes make things worse. It can demoralize employees and affect the work ethics of the people who stay. Unfortunately, some corporations are left with no choice but to revamp their current workforce. Right now, the U.S. is experiencing the worst job cuts in five years. According to the U.S. Department of Labor monthly report, a total of 159,000 jobs were lost in September. Already, a total of 760,000 jobs were lost this year. Whether resellers layoff employees or not, VARs must be prepared to do more with less. In order to do so, the channel should make the most out of all current resources and find tools that improve efficiency and individual performance. 3. Make Use of Vendor/Distributor Financing Options.Bad debt is the main reason why the U.S. is facing a prolonged recession. But VARs have reason to rejoice as the credit crunch hasn’t really affected them yet. A Channel Insider survey revealed that around 80% of solution providers still have easy access to credit and that, in fact, it is easier to get credit today than three years ago. Channels should make a conscious effort to assist customers in gaining access to loans and line of credit. By taking advantage of vendor or distributor financing programs, the VARs are paid the full amount upfront while the customer gets to defer payment for a specified period of time. So if customers are concerned about their budget, a financing option might very well clinch the deal. It is surprising however, that very few VARs consider giving their customers financing options. In a very competitive field, channels who don’t expect their clients to cough up the entire purchase amount in 30 days will win more deals than those that refuse to make financing a regular option. 4. Make the Most Out of Your Vendor Programs, Promotions and Incentives. In the past, vendors would direct more effort on direct sales initiatives during times of economic downturns. Today, it is a totally different story. Vendors have now realized that during tough financial times, they should focus even more on strengthening their relationship with their partners. A really smart move considering that doing so would increase their sales and save them money at the same time. Why do vendors care so much? VARs are the most cost-efficient way to market products. Imagine how much it would cost for a vendor to hire 200 sales personnel. Now imagine that same vendor being able to reach 100,000 salespeople through partnerships with channels. The most profitable route is obvious. Unfortunately, a lot of VARs aren’t aware that vendors are throwing them a helping hand. Channels should realize that the best help their partners are giving them are the hundreds of programs, promotions and incentives available to resellers. However, for one reason or another, most resellers fail to avail of these vendor deals. Vendor programs, promotions and incentives can give massive discounts to resellers. The implications of this are huge. In a competitive market with limited sales opportunities, a channel who registers for vendor deals can come up with a better pricing strategy than the enemy. Remember, in a floundering economy, the best price will almost always win. 5. Invest in Tools for Improving Sales Team Efficiency. Sometimes, you have to spend a little money to save a little money. During a financial crisis, it is advisable for a corporation to look into investing in tools which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the sales team and the entire organization in general. These tools include CRM tools such as Salesforce, or SAP; virtual meetings tools such as Citrix’s GoToMeeting, and vendor management software such as Deal Insight, a portal that actually helps resellers keep track of vendor promotions, programs and incentives. If you find yourself confused about whether a certain technology is worth investing in, consider the following questions: Will this technology help me increase sales and boost revenue? Will this service or product pay for itself over a short period of time? If you answer yes to the two questions, it will probably be in your best interest to make the purchase. Of the five recommendations mentioned above, the last one deserves special mention, particularly because a lot of organizations find it hard to do. After all, spending money during a period of time when you could be losing money seems to go against the grain. It is, however, important to stress that some of the tools mentioned above are necessary because not only will they pay for themselves in a short period of time, they may actually start making the company money. Everyone is already familiar with the benefits of having Customer Relationship Management and Virtual Meeting software. Vendor Management Software, however, is another story all together. It is very new to the market and few VARs have implemented its use. This is unfortunate and should be remedied, particularly because Vendor Management Software specifically addresses the need to utilize vendor programs, promotions and incentives. Why Better Management of Vendor Information is Needed Today’s severe economic conditions have made the market extremely price sensitive. Therefore, being able to offer customers the best prices has become of even greater importance. VARs that make the most out of vendor programs, promotions and incentives will have the upper hand as they can pass on discounts earned to their customers. Unfortunately, there is just too much vendor information out there. The average sales organization needs to weed through over a thousand vendor deals every year. Most sales people don’t even bother searching for these deals-leaving $100,000’s dollars worth of discounts on the table for resellers. During an economic crisis, no one can afford to let this happen. About Deal Insight Deal Insight is a relatively new tool and therefore, it is difficult to find a product that is comparable. It is basically a web portal that contains all vendor programs, incentives and promotions that are searchable by product and updated daily. But sales people who are constantly subjected to information from vendors are fully aware of the sheer amount of knowledge that needs to be absorbed. Take, for example, most large vendors like IBM & HP who have portals with over 2,000 webpages and approximately 1,500 documents. With this amount of clutter it is very easy to lose thousands of dollars worth of opportunities without even realizing it. In addition, vendors send 1000s of emails to resellers in a year. How are sales people supposed to keep track of which offer matches what product? A vendor management tool prevents this from happening and this should be enough to give it a second look. Of course, one should always consider how much technology costs before making a purchase-especially when dealing with a prolonged economic downturn. Deal Insight, like other SaaS, is affordable and for what it can deliver, may very well be worth it. Qualified VARs can take advantage of a 14-day free trial so they can actually try before they buy. Contract terms are also flexible and implementation is fast. According to the website (http://dealinsight.neuronglobal.com/), it can cost as little as $499 a month. It is definitely something any competitive VAR should look into and according to the website, you can get more information by calling 202 828 1234 or sending an email at info@neuronglobal.com. Conclusion When sales are dropping and competition is getting worse, it is vital for channels to squeeze everything they can out of what they currently have. It is a VARs responsibility to ensure that they are ready to face this crisis. Whether it is by realigning their focus on products that are still in high-demand, or by cutting costs, or investing in vendor management software like Deal Insight, adjustments need to be done fast. Channels who delay will find themselves left behind by competitors who act today. There are many tools available to VARs who wish to arm themselves for the war that lies ahead. When the dust clears, those who were not prepared to fight this battle may not survive-while the others who took the other way may very well have thrived.
January 26, 2009
January 25, 2009
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January 24, 2009
Business and Internet Marketing News Report
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Although the economy is declining — business is increasing little by little and on a steady pace. And the good news is that business is now being conducted both on a national and international scale.
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