Friday, March 29, 2019

It’s time for changes, for corporate restructuring!

Every developing company will reach point when it is time to think about restructuring. Corporate restructuring is about managing changes and it’s great when changes are positive.
Corporate restructuring is a corporate action taken to significantly modify the structure or the operations of the company.

Most common positive reasons to do restructuring:
  • experiment with new products, price strategy or implementing new technology;
  • starting to explore new markets (ex., you are going to the global market or go online);
  • reach out to new groups of customers;
  • changing a system of work, adding outsourcing, telecommuting;
  • changing management method, quality management or even reorganizing a company's legal, ownership;
  • new financial situation, for example, got found

The Corporate Restructuring takes place in two forms: financial and organizational.

So each company has own reason or reasons to make changes. How to start?

Steps of restructuring are the following:
  1. Determining what fields need to be restructured;
  2. Make an analysis, determine weaknesses and creating detailed plans to correct weaknesses during restructuring;
  3. Follow plans, implementing corrective action;
  4. Calculating and securing funding;
  5. Restructuring;
  6. Evaluating results.

When the company is in a process of restructuring and especially has final date for this process, it is easy to forget some things to do or things will be done subjectively or with no plans. For this reasons we recommend to use services of experienced company.

Do you plan to restructure something in the near future?

Sunday, March 3, 2019

What is a commercial bank ?

A commercial bank is a type of bank that provides services such as deposit acceptance, acceptance of business loans and the provision of investment products used as business profits.

It can also apply to a bank or a large bank branch dealing with corporations or large or medium-sized companies to distinguish it from a retail bank and investment bank.



Functions
  • Commercial banks accept various types of deposits from the public, especially from their customers, including savings on account deposits, repeated account deposits and fixed deposits. These deposits are returned when the customer requests it or after a certain period of time.
  • Commercial banks provide various forms of loans and advances, including overdraft, cash credit, invoice discounting, money after a call, etc. They also provide demand and term loans to all types of customers against adequate security



Monday, February 11, 2019

Is it necessary to know any business language?

Nowadays business came to globe and being international partner and have customers from other countries is nothing special. Routine. What to do if you do not know language of your associate?

The business world requires business owners to use different languages not only orally for finding opportunities for future cooperation but also to prepare documents. Besides contract and agreement, auxiliary documents such as patents, bills, invoices, manuals, etc., are also required. These are essential for smooth operations.

As a matter of fact,international business languages are English, Mandarin, Spanish, German, French and some others. It also could be unique for your business. When you communicate by email it is not so hard because of internet resources.

What to do outside inbox?

  1. You can hire specialist from your business industry who already know necessary languages or even is native speakers. Is it really possible to find this kind of person who fit to all requirements?

  2. You can motivate your workers to learn languages but it takes time.

  3. If you trust your finance to bank so would be great idea to delegate conversation at some points and documentation to professional team. Legal translation service can include translating contracts, agreements, articles of association (in case of company formation), as well as various business documents and blanks.

Business translation service can save your money, time and will help you to shed some light.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

What is Corporate finance?

Corporate Finance is a financing area that deals with sources of finance, corporate capital structure, and actions taken by managers to increase the value of a company to its shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.

The primary goal
Increase or maximize shareholder value. Although it is fundamentally different from management finance, which studies the financial management of all companies, not just corporations, the key concepts of corporate finance research are applicable to the financial problems of all types of companies.

Capital budgeting
Capital budgeting is concerned with the set of criteria about which value-adding projects should receive investment funding, and whether to finance that investment with equity or debt capital.

Working capital
Working capital management is the management of the company's monetary funds that deal with the short-term operating balance of current assets and current liabilities; the focus here is on managing cash, inventories, and short-term borrowing and lending (such as the terms on credit extended to customers).

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Business monopoly



What comes first to your mind when you hear word monopoly? Is it a monopoly game? Like in the monopoly game A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity, the winner has all the market. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market.

There are 2 types of monopoly:
Natural monopoly - an organization that experiences increasing returns to scale over the relevant range of output and relatively high fixed costs.
Government-granted monopoly - also known as a de jure monopoly - a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants an exclusive privilege to a private individual or company to be the sole provider of a commodity.
  • The monopolist will sell a lesser quantity of goods at a higher price than would companies by perfect competition;
  • Monopoly pricing creates a deadweight loss referring to potential gains that went neither to the monopolist nor to consumers
  • The monopoly setting is less efficient than perfect competition
  • Monopolies tend to become less efficient and less innovative over time, becoming complacent
  • The theory of contestable markets argues that in some circumstances (private) monopolies are forced to behave as if there were competition because of the risk of losing their monopoly to new entrants. This is likely to happen when a market's barriers to entry are low. 

Thursday, November 15, 2018

What is Accounting networks and associations

Accounting networks and associations - Professional services networks whose principal purpose is to provide members resources to assist the clients around the world and hence reduce the uncertainty by bringing together a greater number of resources to work on a problem. The networks and associations operate independently of the independent members.

Professional services networks - networks of independent firms who come together to cost-effectively provide services to clients through an organized framework.

List of Accounting Networks and Associations
  • United States Alliott Group
  • United States BKR International
  • United Kingdom Baker Tilly
  • BelgiumBrussels BDO International (Binder Dijker Otte & Co)
  • United States Crowe Horwath
  • United States Deloitte (Deloitte Haskins Sells/Deloitte, Haskins Sells, Touche Ross, Tohmatsu)
  • United Kingdom Ernst & Young (Arthur Young, Ernst Whinney/Ernst Ernst, Whinney Smith Murray)
  • United States Grant Thornton International
  • United Kingdom HLB International
  • United Kingdom JHI International
  • Netherlands KPMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler, Peat Marwick)
  • United Kingdom Kreston
  • United Kingdom Kudos
  • United Kingdom MGI Worldwide
  • United Kingdom Moore Stephens
  • United Kingdom UHY International
  • United Kingdom Nexia
  • AustraliaCanadaUnited KingdomUnited States PKF International
  • United Kingdom PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) (Coopers Lybrand/Cooper Brothers, Lybrand Ross Brothers Montgomery, Price Waterhouse)
  • United KingdomUnited States RSM International
  • United Kingdom Russell Bedford International
  • United States Santa Fe Associates International
  • Argentina SMS Latinoamérica
The purpose of the Accounting networks and associations:
Accounting networks and associations structure reflect the activities it seeks to promote and the underlying cultures of the members. Accounting, legal, multidisciplinary and speciality networks will each be different. The process is defined by how they are governed and operated.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

What is an auditing?




What is an audit?
An audit is a systematic and independent examination of accounts, statutory records, books, documents and vouchers of an organization to ascertain how far the financial statements, as well as non-financial disclosures, present a true and fair view of the concern.

What is an auditor?
In accounting, an auditor is someone who is responsible for evaluating the validity and reliability of a company or organization’s financial statements.

There are also:
  • An external auditor or Statutory auditors
  • Cost auditors or Statutory cost auditors
  • Government Auditors
  • Secretarial auditors or Statutory secretarial auditors
  • Internal auditors
  • Consultant auditors
The audit is necessary because of these things:
  • Test out the performance of the new technology.
  • Evaluate threats, economy, efficacy and quality.
  • Identify key areas for improvement in your company.
  • Required while taking loans from a bank.
  • Show a true and fair view of the financial statement
  • The audited financial statement attract shareholder
  • Helps to calculate the correct amount of tax to be paid government.
There are many Types of Audits:
  • Inventory Audit - the auditor uses several analytical procedures to check the company’s inventory methods and confirm that the financial records and actual physical count of goods match.
  • Stock Audit - independent check on the functions of the management, which has some value in the eyes of law and the taxation authority.
  • Operational audit - an examination of the operations of the client's business;
  • Energy audit - an inspection, survey and analysis of energy flows for energy conservation in a building, process or system to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting the output(s).
  • Academic audit - an educational term for the completion of a course of study for which no assessment of the performance of the student is made nor grade awarded;
  • Quality audit - performed to verify conformance to standards through a review of the objective evidence;
  • Performance audit - refers to an independent examination of a program, function, operation or the management systems and procedures of a governmental or non-profit entity to assess whether the entity is achieving economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the employment of available resources. Safety, security, information systems performance, and environmental concerns are increasingly the subject of audits.
  • e.t.c.