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How To Reduce Business Expenses

HR Digest

Most business managers struggle to understand how to reduce business expenses because they have dedicated teams handling finances. It is not wrong to have a team of financial experts but as a manager, you need to under the basic ways to reduce business cost. Reduce production cost. Evaluation staff cost.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Accurately Evaluating Your Finances and Funding Your Business. When you think of starting a small business, it is a sure event that there will be an associated cost or price.

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5 Effective Strategies for General Contractors to Cut Costs

Strategy Driven

The first step in cutting costs should begin with a complete audit of the existing expenses. You should consider ways to reduce operational expenses. Also, you can consider the shift from in-house to cloud operations to cut overheads. This is not necessarily the most cost-effective approach. Time and Contract Clause.

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Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It

Harvard Business Review

To understand more about how contribution margin works, I talked with Joe Knight, author of HBR Tools: Business Valuation and cofounder and owner of business-literacy.com , who says “it’s a common financial analysis tool that’s not very well understood by managers.” In fact, COGS includes both variable and fixed costs.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation.

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. Conglomerates, after all, are just a management tool.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns.