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Company Asset Management

Lead Change Blog

Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year. The challenge that most companies encounter is in deciding what to do when it is time to get rid of assets.

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6 Smart Investment Decisions To Make As An Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

A vast majority of entrepreneurs, 80% to be precise, fund their enterprises out of pocket, and managing cash flow is a major challenge as most have no prior business cash flow education. Investing in fixed assets. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. We calculate that U.S.