On an overall basis, companies rate their capital investment planning process at
5.8 On a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (best). Companies that are unhappy with their process cite the following problems:
• “Gaming” of the process
• Special treatment of certain capital investments (such as information technology projects)
• The effect of executive incentive bonuses on investment decisions
• The treatment of implementation and uncertainty risks by the project appraisal process
Also, only about half of the companies examined conduct post investment reviews. However, when such reviews do get done, the primary intentions are perceived to be to learn lessons from investment decisions and to improve forecasting. Fewer companies use the reviews to help improve their capital planning process.

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If we are a product manufacturer which has own brand and own distribution line, the challenge growing bigger day by day. This is because our competitor try harder to go through to the core market which the essential area as the trend setter. Off course this is not easy and cheap way because they need some famous people as endorsement person of their product. So what can we do if we only have limited fund? How can we resist and counter it to get our customer back?

The marketing option still a main weapon to recovery our market and trust from our customer. We still need to do regular marketing approach like distributing promotional badges for (more…)

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The data security is one big issue in every company due the business policy to avoid lacking outside. This is not a low level priority because secret of a business is a heart of its business and should be protected like a heritage.
Usually a company has 2 systems to save their business data; in hard copy and soft copy way. For the hard copy, it can be seen by everyone like document, paper or (more…)

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Become popular company is not enough this time because needed important additional requirement from the global market. This is really serious point and day by day market requires the big proportion of this so they can accept and absorb the qualified product only. This point is about save (more…)

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I saw a news several days ago when there was a case about some big clients of some national banks lost their fund in the bank saving. When this case handled by police, they main cause of this case is there were some people who cheated during ATM transactions. Actually this was not the first time of criminal (more…)

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With health care costs and premiums skyrocketing, many employers are scaling back their health insurance coverage for retirees or eliminating it entirely. In a major victory for employers, the Supreme Court ruled that a collectively bar-gained agreement that cut off retiree health benefits for workers under age 50, but kept (more…)

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When their production facilities are aging, managers use the budgeting process to advocate for the lease or purchase of new equipment. In fact, the alternative that is often less expensive (but that managers tend to omit from their budget requests) is to service existing equipment. Contends Copeland: “In most cases, the overall cost of equipment (including breakdowns) is 30% lower if a company continues servicing an existing machine for five more years instead of buying a new one.” Recommendation: Make sure managers analyze the lease, buy, and maintain options when pushing for the replacement of existing equipment.

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Online music selling became a controversial moment in the beginning time. Some singers were agree because it could increase their album selling but most of singers were very disappointed because most of their song was hacked and can be downloaded without permission from their management. That’s a bug hit for their income because there is no income even their album or song was very popular. Yes actually that’s a nightmare for (more…)

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Not all solo businesses succeed and some are eventually closed. Very few closures, however, actually result in bankruptcy. If a business lacks the degree of success that justifies its continued operation, then the owner simply closes it down. A number of research studies have revealed that most of the obstacles (more…)

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Companies with the highest level of satisfaction with their capital planning processes use the following techniques:
• Treat all proposals consistently. Best-practice companies evaluate all capital spending proposals consistently. That is, they do not approach different kinds of capital investment in different ways. There is no (more…)

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