Archive for January, 2009

Building A Cash Cushion

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Building Up Your Financial Reserves

Building a financial cushion for your business is never easy. Experts say that businesses should have anywhere from six to nine months worth of income safely stored away in the bank. If your business is grossing $250,000 per month the thought of saving a mere $1.5 million, can either have you dying from laughter or cause you to panic from just realizing this fact. What may be a nice well-advised idea in theory can easily be tossed right out the window when you’re just barely making payroll each month. With this in mind, how can small business owners begin to wisely save money to ensure their long-term success?

Realizing that your business needs a savings plan is the first step toward better management. By doing this your business has a much better chance of being successful. Building savings allows you to plan for future growth in your business and by having the necessary investment capital ready, you can use it toward launching such plans. Having a source of back-up income can often carry a business through a rough time.

When we have market fluctuations, like the dramatic increase in oil and gasoline prices; which may start to affect your business, you may have to go into your savings to keep operations running until the difficulties pass. Your savings can support low peak times in your business, so you will have the ability to purchase inventory and cover your payroll until more revenue is generated. Building business savings is not something that happens overnight, but it is similar to building your business, in that they both take time.

Make sure to review your books on a monthly basis and see where you might be able to trim some expenses, so you can re-route the savings into another account. This will help you to keep on track with cash flow and other financial concerns. Even though it can be quite alarming to see your cash flowing outward with no end in sight, it is better for it to happen sooner, so you can put corrective measures in place, rather than waiting months to discover your losses, because then it will be difficult to recover.

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Play to Win the Game

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Many people, if not most, would not think to include gambling a legitimate category of financial planning. But with millions of people involved in all sorts of gaming, and billions of dollars, euros and pouns at stake, why not? Many people gamble only for amusement; but what if you want to gamble to actually produce income?

Lotto is one of the most widespread forms of games of chance. Although no one has yet perfected the technique or the formula to second guess the winning combination, many have figured out how to make decent earnings by guessing the probable winning combinations. Some rely on mathematics, some on intuition. The best chance you have of hitting the winning combination depends on how you use the most vital ingredient required for every day living – commonsense.

Instead of focusing on expensive strategies that use random combinations, you ought to focus on possible winning combinations. You can achieve this just by categorizing winning combinations. If you determine, based on historical data, that the future jackpot will have more numbers from 1 to 9, you should have a combination of numbers that will include, at minimum, four numbers from 1 to 9. This way you will not have to buy more number of tickets to increase your odds of hitting the big prize. By not buying too many tickets, not only do you save money, but you also have enough funds to play another day (which might prove to be your lucky day).

Playing in syndicate is also a good idea, but you have to share your prize money with all the members of the syndicate and this means you still have to keep your job and report back to office on the following Monday. Categorizing numbers doesn’t require a lot of brain power. What you do is target a group of numbers and try out different combinations. For example, if you have deduced that 1 to 9 may be the combination that you need to focus on, then your combination might be 1,4,6,9,26,30 or 1,2,5,7,36,39 or 1,3,8,11,29,45. Now in these numbers you will note that your focus is on numbers from 1 to 9; the other numbers are ones which have an outside chance of being drawn. With this system you may not necessarily hit the jackpot but you will surely win decent sums of money to finance your future games, and if Lady Luck happens to smile on you, you can forget going to work on the following Monday.

The commonsense approach demands that you play alertly. If you are targeting the group from 1 to 9 it would be utterly foolish to draw four numbers in a series like 1,2,3,4 or 6,7,8,9 as the first four numbers; by doing this your chances of hitting the jackpot or any small prize become zero. It means that even before the winning numbers are drawn, you have lost the game. This is akin to literally throwing away your money.

So, how can you win lotto? Well, the best strategy is to zero in on the probable winning combinations, then use common sense to arrive at the combination of six numbers. If you follow this practice consistently, your chance of hitting the jackpot goes up dramatically. If you are going to gamble, do so intelligently, and play to win.

 

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what is the difference between a masters in finance and a mba?

Friday, January 30th, 2009
finance
mikerob08 asked:


know the ms in finance deals solely with finance. does the mba offer a more all around education in business including one’s specific specialization. what about course work? how do admissions standards differ between the two degrees. i’m contemplating a career in finance and i’m not for sure what is the best route.

Toni
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