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Managers should not focus on the current stock value because the value fluctuates daily based on market conditions, profits, management, and current economy. Managers should instead focus on the long term growth of the company.
Stakeholders are customers, competitors, society, government, managers, workers, shareholders... These stakeholders have different objectives: Shareholders want more profits but managers want the business to expand so as to receive more salary and increase their status. In this case, if managers decide to expand the business, the shareholders will receive less dividend since the money is used for the expansion, thus there is a conflict.. Customers want a better quality of products and a cheaper price. Society wants businesses to use environmentally friendly materials. Workers want a secure job and maybe a high pay...
There are many forces which will tend to create a convergence between the interests of stockholders and managers, and thus cause managers to be interested in maximizing a corporation's profits or value: a. Competitive pressures could lead to stock price declines for nonperforming company, and again result in take overs, proxy contest, etc. b. In many corporations, management remunerations are tied to the performance and managers frequently are awarded stock options which gain value as the price of shares rises. Thus, managers will have an interest in maximizing stockholder welfare. c. Corporate shares are not only owned by widely dispersed stockholders but by large institutional holders such as: banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, etc. These organizations employ analysts who continually study stock performance. Nonperforming companies would be sold from these institutions' portfolios, and lead to decreased prices of these stocks. This could lead to the dismissal of present management.
Maximizing profits.
To efficiently manage employees in order to maximise profits.
Profits - Expense = Savings and Investment Profits keep a business going as long is it is more than expense.
Managers should not focus on the current stock value because the value fluctuates daily based on market conditions, profits, management, and current economy. Managers should instead focus on the long term growth of the company.
Elasticity helps to find optimal production quantities and thus optimal profits.
depreciation of fixed assets reduces the profit as depreciation is also an expense.
The term used to describe the excess of gross profit over direct expense is gross margin. This is the percentage by which the profits exceedÊthe production costs.Ê
From retained earnings.
old concept emphasis was on its profits while newer one see public benefits too
If one wishes to make money doing creative projects, then time and expense should be considered. Operating a craft business is just like operating any other business when it comes to calculation of profits and pricing.
A Drawing account is used for withdrawals by owners of the entity. This is commonly used in sole proprietoships and partnerships. The withdrawals are the distribution of the profits to the owners. In corporations dividends declared reduce retained earnings in a similar manner because dividends are distributions of profits to the stockholders. An expense account is used for costs incurred by the entity such as salaries, depreciation, rent, interest, insurance, advertising, and taxes.
An item on the balance sheet that falls under liabilities. A provision is "raised" when the company has an expense for which it has not yet received an invoice and therefore does not know the amount. The provision is an estimate, which is charged against profits because the expense was incurred in the accounting period, which is being reported
An item on the balance sheet that falls under liabilities. A provision is "raised" when the company has an expense for which it has not yet received an invoice and therefore does not know the amount. The provision is an estimate, which is charged against profits because the expense was incurred in the accounting period, which is being reported
If one wishes to make money doing creative projects, then time and expense should be considered. Operating a craft business is just like operating any other business when it comes to calculation of profits and pricing.