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Close to 2,500 Carvana Employees Get Laid Off Over Zoom

HR Digest

The layoffs will mainly be for Carvana employees in operational groups as the company seeks to “better align staffing and expense levels with sales volumes.”. Apart from Carvana employees layoffs, the company will also be taking other measures to streamline its operational activities. Carvana Employees Layoffs.

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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. The use of cloud computing can help to save hardware and operational 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

Think about how company income statements usually work: You start with revenue, subtract cost of goods sold (COGS) to get gross profit , subtract operating expenses to get operating profit , and then subtract taxes, interest, and everything else to get net profit. 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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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.