How Opportunity Cost Can Affect Your Home Business

In order to properly plan and weigh your options, you should always consider opportunity cost as you make business decisions. So what exactly is opportunity cost? It’s an economics concept that says there is a cost to choosing one option over another. For example, imagine that your home office needed a new computer, printer, desk and scanner, yet you only had the funds for one of these items. Ultimately, you decide that the scanner is most important to your office, followed by the computer, desk and then the printer. After buying the scanner, the opportunity cost would be all the … Read more at Free Business Cards

Teaching Finance For Non-Financial Managers

Each organization has its own funds. Be it a school, a hospital, a prestigious company, or even down to the smallest convenience store has fund. Funds literally mean a supply of money, stock, or resources that are set aside for a purpose. There should be an accounting of what goes in and out of an organization to properly keep track of the funding.

Funds when not handled properly can turn into a messy business. Your company may be on the verge of bankruptcy and you don’t even know it because you take bookkeeping or accounting for your costs … Read more at Free Business Cards

Script Splits and Issues

Sometimes firms offer shareholders three shares in proportion to the shares they own. For example, they may be offered one free share for every share owned. This is the script issue.

Alternatively, the shares are split. For example, every share, par or nominal value one dollar, is replaced by two shares, par or nominal value $.50.

In each case, the market value of the share will fall to half of the previous figure. The idea is that markets recognize a broad range of trading prices for shares. With growing profits and dividends over the years, the share price increases. Sometimes … Read more at Free Business Cards

Investing In A Silver ETF

In previous decades investing in silver meant you purchased and physically held the silver you had invested in. Silver bullion bars most commonly but otherwise silver coins or another form of this precious metal. Today the most popular way to invest in silver is with silver ETF. This is an exchange traded fund. It means you have an investment in the silver without actually physically possessing the silver. Obviously this is much more practical for today’s lifestyles and great to be included in your financial plan.

The silver is held by a company, perhaps not even in the same … Read more at Free Business Cards