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Company Asset Management

Lead Change Blog

Also, they need long-term investment that is used to produce income. 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.

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5 Facts Everyone Should Know About Home Loans Before Applying

Strategy Driven

However, also note that it’s ultimately up to a given lending institution to set the relevant terms, so things like rates, credit scores, and loan terms can vary from lender to lender, on top of what the federal government requires. For this reason, regular income is significantly more important than fixed assets or cash in the bank.

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Status Quophiles and Quophobes

Mills Scofield

SQ : This makes sense in the long run, but remember, we are measured on quarterly results. I : This makes sense in the long run, and we can show some benefits even in the short term by applying our learning early on. SQ : Nice idea, but we have to recognize the sunk costs of our existing fixed assets.

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When a Country is Facing Political and Human Rights Issues, Should Businesses Leave or Stay?

Harvard Business Review

Keep a long term focus. A decision based on short-term financial or legal motives alone is destined to end in problems. It doesn’t matter whether that short-term motive is to make profits or to avoid losses, to follow sanctions or to evade them. Its short-term motives led to deep losses. sanctions, like Iran.

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Resolution 2011: Make Your Strategy Coherent

Harvard Business Review

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. Leaders need to look past Wall Street-pleasing adjacencies or new businesses, and instead make sure their core strategy will result in long-term success.

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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. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?