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When to Incorporate a Business Entity
When should you Incorporate a Business Entity? Incorporate before hiring employees helps to protect your assets. Businesses that have or expect to have employees should incorporate before hiring them. Employers are generally liable for...
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What is Growth in a Startup_
What is Growth in a Startup Venture? There's an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it's doing. As the startup figures out how to make something lots of people want and how to reach those...
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Voting Rights - Preferred Shares
What are Voting Rights of Preferred Shares? Preferred typically have no voting rights, whereas common stockholders do. Preferred stockholders may have the option to convert shares to common shares but not vice versa. Preferred shares may...
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VMOST Analysis
VMOST Analysis helps you clearly see if your organization's vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and tactics are well-aligned.
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Vision Statement in a Business Plan
What is the Vision Statement in a Business Plan? A vision statement is a written declaration clarifying your business's meaning and purpose for stakeholders, especially employees. It describes the desired long-term results of your...
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Venture Capital Method - Business Valuation
What is the Venture Capital method of business valuation? “Venture Capital Method” for determining a company's valuatio involves multiplying the company's projected revenue with its projected margin and industry price-to-earnings to...
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Value of Dividends Method - Business Valuation
What is the Value of Dividends Method of Business Valuation? This method relies on the idea that a stock is only worth what it will provide to investors in future dividends. If a business does not currently distribute dividends, the...
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Value Disciplines
Value Disciplines is a really powerful strategy framework. Value Disciplines can be quite flexible, but it is not for everyone.
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Value Creation Index
The Value Creation Index (VCI) is a tool designed to quantify the link between an organization's non-financial performance and its valuation in the markets.
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Types of Business Strategy
Organizational (Corporate) Strategy; Business (Competitive) Strategy; Functional Strategy ; Growth-Based Strategies,; Stability Strategies, · Retrenchment
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Turnaround Management
What is Turnaround Management? Turnaround management is a process dedicated to corporate renewal. It uses analysis and planning to save troubled companies and return them to solvency, and to identify the reasons for failing performance...
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Total Quality Management
What is Total Quality Management or TQM? Total quality management consists of organization-wide efforts to "install and make permanent climate where employees continuously improve their ability to provide on demand products and services...
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Theory of Constraints
What is the Theory of Constraints? The theory of constraints is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.
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Term Sheet Provisions
What are Term Sheets? What are the primary term sheet provisions? A term sheet often covers four main categories: the deal economics, the investor rights, the governance and oversight, and the exit terms. A term sheet must communicate...
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Ch9. Video 9 - Employer Payroll Tax example
Employer Payroll Tax (Accounting) example
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Central Driving Forces Model - Explained
What is the Central Driving Forces Model? The central driving forces model is an entrepreneurial-based model that considers the positives and negatives of three areas of the venture; founder(s), opportunities, and resources. The model...
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Capitalizing or Funding a New Business
What are the options for funding a New Business? How does funding affect the capital structure? Retained earnings, debt capital, and equity capital are three ways companies can raise capital. Using retained earnings means companies don't...
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Capitalization Policy - Effect on Financial Statements
Companies often employ differing policies concerning whether to capitalize the purchase of assets or expense the purchase in a given year. This video explains the effects of a capitalization policy on the financial statements.
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Businesses and Religious Freedom
This Video Explains Businesses and Religious Freedom
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Business Segment - Strategic Business Unit, SBU
Explanation of Business Segment, Strategic Business Unit, or SBU
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Business School Career Resources
This Video Explains Business School Career Resources
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Business Plan - Management and Organization
What should be included in the Management and Organization section of the business plan? This section of your Business Plan should include the following: your company's organizational structure, details about the ownership of your...