Cutting prices by 20% and yet maintain your margin

News source at:
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108119/the-accidental-hero.html?mod=career-selfemployment
Business finance flow in a very simple manner, it starts from the top (gross revenue) to bottom (profit).
Now between that two point, there’s cost, cutting numbers from the revenue until they reach profit.
Equation wise, R – C = P (totally simplified)
So, one would suspect that a significant in reduction in revenue would cause [...]

Looking for precedence – Sustainable Advantage – General Motors

Being in the Fortune 500 is grand, being in the Fortune Global 1000 is even more grand.
Being there means having size, having heft, having revenue so ridiculously big you’re competitor cries about how they cannot compete with your scale.
If Astra International and Bank Central Asia, Indonesia’s most distinguished companies are not even in the Global [...]

“Tolong jelasin masalah resesi dong”

(Conversation as of 19 October 2008)
yyyy(9:43:38 PM): btw tlg jelasin masalah resesi dong
yyyy(9:43:43 PM): gw ga ngerti nih hehehe
yyyy(9:43:47 PM): lo kan pasti jago
Dhirosattha (9:44:40 PM): resesi ekonomi scr umum? ato yg sekarang?
yyyy(9:47:25 PM): yg sekarang

Projected long term oil demand falls by 10 million barrels in just one year

Why am i talking about oil demand projection?
Because demand projection influence price, and price of oil influence the price of almost every other goods and service.
Hovering around USD 55 (as of Nov 20 2008) the price of oil may look really low, but a bit of look of history shows that this is the same [...]

Detroit bailout? Wait, what about free competition? And all this talk about free international trade?

November 14, 2008.
The US automakers asked the US government to provide them with a $ 25 Billion bailout. Well, the executives said it’s not a bailout, it’s a loan, to allow the US automakers some breathing space to innovate.
Hogwash. Sorry Obama, I support you for the US presidency, but if the US automakers cannot compete [...]

Relation between Vocational & Computer Money and Reps & Dem leadership

So often economy and politics converge. It is political system that makes money, the blood of economy, possible; without a stable system of governing a country, no paper would be able to assume a value beyond its production cost. And it is politician who can make policies that affect the economy through laws, taxes, regulation, [...]

How do you spend $ 1 Trillion each year?

I found a great graphical presentation on how the US discretionary budget is being distributed.
A simple factoid, The United States of America 2009 Discretionary Budget stands at $ 1,182 billion, (hmm…it seems the title of this blog is somewhat inaccurate….). The discretionary budget is being used to fund all cabinet level departments, which in simple [...]