Posts Tagged ‘Career’

Boss And Co-Workers Are Not Family

January 30th, 2010

boss and worker 300x214 Boss And Co Workers Are Not FamilyNobody know where that thinking began but I think that it happened because of television. In the shows you watch nowadays, the characters are even more supportive rather than your own family. There is a simple reason for this,  television shows do not have more budget for more actors. In real life, no matter how much you got paid, how much you love your job, it is still a job. You will provide a service when you work for someone, that is simply because you are paid to do  that.

When I hear somebody say that the company is  just like a family,  I think it is just a lie. You are family if you can borrow some money without paying it back, or do not come to work for 15 days and still have the job, or go home everyday after you eat lunch.

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What is Bookkeeping?

January 30th, 2010

bookkeeping 300x300 What is Bookkeeping?Some folks have created a terribly successful career in bookkeeping whereas other folks have just thought about a career in bookkeeping but have never acted on it. Bookkeeping is not the identical as accounting, this can be a common misperception. Accounting is a much larger range of financial duties and responsibilities, where bookkeeping is just one function that provides some of the basic information required for accounting.

Bookkeepers need to have a very good eye for detail, as a simple numeric error can easily report on erroneous figures that can be very hard to identify where the error is. Bookkeepers need to be very patient and methodical in their approach to their work and when required have great analysis skills to identify erroneous book entries. Bookkeepers perform all manner of record-keeping tasks and need to be flexible in their relationships with their customers, as quite often their customers do not have as much skill in bookkeeping as they do.. They prepare what are known as supply documents for all the operations of a business – the buying, selling, transferring, paying and collecting. The documents embody papers like purchase orders, invoices, credit card slips, time cards, time sheets and expense reports. Bookkeepers conjointly verify and enter in the source documents what are referred to as the money effects of the transactions and different business events. Those include paying the workers, making sales, borrowing cash or buying products or raw materials for production.

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What Do I Need to Know When I Am Buying a Business?

June 7th, 2009

I often wonder if business owners who are looking at purchasing a business take the same sort of outlook as when they are buying something in the stock market.

Let’s take some thoughts from the way Warrant Buffet looks at a company and determine if we could be using those same successful strategies.

Those strategies tend to be summed up in a very concise manner -> make sure you understand what you are buying, ensure the industry prospects are favorable, and if management is going to stay on in some capacity make sure they know what they are doing!

Many owners I meet look to buy into businesses, or franchises for that matter, in an industry they don’t understand. We would say that if you can’t positively feel good about knowing the real sales potential, how expenses occur, what is the cash flow cycle of the business then you should not by look to purchase that business. Naturally many business owners will often get a strong sense of missing a major opportunity – the business owners forgets that Buffett once said ‘above average results… are often produced by doing ordinary things’.

Many business owners like to focus on buying a turn around business, a business that has been either abandoned or poorly managed by its previous owners. While there are clearly some great turn around stories out there, more often than not these transactions become large challenges and financial nightmares. More simply speaking: The business was cheap to buy for a reason!

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The Worst Mistake Made by Traders

January 30th, 2009

business plan 300x232 The Worst Mistake Made by Traders Today we frequently hear stories about traders blowing out their entire accounts or about people who started with 100k only to have it near 20k within a very short period. Time and time again, when I talk to people about trading or my career, I often hear phrases like “It’s way too risky for me..” or “the market is scary right now, how’s it treating you?” Usually my response to that is “It’s not how the market is treating me, it’s how I’m treating the market.”

What most people and most traders have not realized is the importance of having a plan for trading. Having a plan means a lot of things. In fact, the people who are successful at other careers generally all started with a plan. Trading is like a business and it must be treated that way. When a person is seeking a loan for a business or seeking for help in starting a business, most of the time you’ll hear the opposite party say “Ok, let’s see your business plan” or “what do you have planned?” People want to know where you are headed. The same thing goes in trading. Why would you want to risk your hard earned money in the markets without knowing what could or couldn’t happen? The markets don’t care about you or your feelings. It will gladly take your money in the blink of an eye, so it is extremely important that you have a plan of action.

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